How a classic was born

Rating: 9/10 (10 July 2011)

I remember how blown away my friends and I were, when we went to see this movie the week it came out. The city, hell the whole country, was abuzz with excitement and amazement at the special effects and the daring surreal theme of this movie. We witnessed firsthand a movie's launch to the realm of global movie classics. Nothing like it had been attempted with the possible exception of Steven Spielberg's works. So many have since copied in one form or another the groundbreaking special effects. No movie and less so no collection of movies (trilogies and the likes) have tackled the religious metaphor that is "The Matrix" with as much calculating foresight and contemporary high-tech intuition as the Wachowskis.
With productions like that of Inception, 2012, Avatar and others, which escape me now, we would be almost blasÃ© to special effects and theme of the Matrix if it was released today, eleven years later. I just happen to be scrolling a list of movie bests when I realized that it was not in my movie collection (humble as it might be) and so I quickly corrected this oversight. I then perused countless reviews of this movie, out of curiosity; I could not help but notice how often the same type of interest and passion was written in those other reviews. Eager to add my two cents worth I jotted down this quickie review.
The two sequels, as good as they were, but ratings do not match the initial Matrix, did not deliver the same wowing response. In fairness, the third Jurassic Park movie fared much better as groundbreaker sequel, all things being equal. Also quite exceptional was Star Wars Episodes I II and III produced over twenty years after the original. If I keep writing, more readers may come to the conclusion that I'm an old fart. I'm neither; I'm just a fan of movies.