What is the big deal?

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2005)

Pardon me for being an adult, but I cannot understand the hype of this movie, past the breathtaking special effects, of course. This mess has all of the elements I have grown to hate most in a modern movie: The wooden acting, the predictable shootouts (with thousands of guns and millions of bullets), the noise, the gut-bashing violence. I may sound like an old prude, but, without the techno-dazzle, this is just a stultifyingly dull mess of scififoolishness.
On the other hand, the sfx were so amazing that I sat through it to the end. I must say that the fans of this movie are a passionate lot. I told a friend of what I thought of The Matrix and he looked at me as if I had twin stalks of celery sticking out of my ears.
So, if I sound stupid because I JUST DON'T GET IT, oh, well. I guess I shouldn't have taken the blue pill before watching it.
No, not that blue pill! Sheesh, you people are annoying.
(Just an after-thought--I watched The Matrix a few weeks ago, 12 years after writing this, and it still was stupid.)