Best Sci Fi film ever !!?!

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2010)

I am writing this review 11 years after I first walked into my local cinema and sat down to watch a film I knew nothing about called The Matrix. I had seen little advertising except for the poster at the cinema and I did not know what to expect. 1 minute into the film and I was awestruck. I am not sure exactly what i had just seen. Visually it was the most unique thing Id ever seen, and only 3 minutes had passed. Then we move onto story telling, we are faced with Alice in Wonderland and down the rabbit hole references. I knew then that this was going to be interesting. Slowly Layers were peeled away until boom it hits you right in the face, it actually draws your breath and moves you in such a way that I had never experienced watching a film thus the Matrix is revealed. Some amazing action scenes follow including the lobby scene which for me is still the best action sequence scene I've ever seen. Just when you think it can't get any better we have the ending....... NO..... the hairs stand up on the back of your neck and you are instantly touched by... something. By the time i had walked out of the cinema and got about 100 yards down the road I turned around. I went straight back and watched the next showing. I watched the film 8 times at the cinema over the next few weeks, demanding friends come and see it. Now I have probably seen the film many times since ( 100 ). I know there are flaws but then when you see a flaw you can also somehow justify it. As a stand alone film it is the best Sci Fi movie of all time. Fans wanted more and 2 more films arrived. I enjoyed both films although not on the same level as the first
For the summer of 99 The Matrix rocked my world along with the Love Parade festival in Berlin. Thus 99 will always be my favourite year. The Matrix 10/10