my favorite line,"how about i give you the finger, *finger* and you give me my phone call?"

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 1999)

I must say, i thought the matrix was a great movie. The graphics were incredible, the characters were good and the plot was very dark and appealing to all the sci-fi lovers out there.
THE GRAPHICS
The graphics were breathtaking. the helicopter scene made my heart beat at an unhealthy rate, the harvesting field churned my stomach and the sentinels just plain scared the crap outta me. i was looking for any slip-ups like stunt double face-shots times where the camera might show up on the reflection of someone's glasses (i failed miserably, and i was glad to see only a confused Neo on that of Morpheus's kick-butt shades.) my only frowny face moment was when the, uh....well, actually, i can't think of any right now....
THE CHARACTERS
Keanu Reeves is a very underrated actor. i can't really see why half the reviews on here are about how much he sucks. he plays a very good dark hero. if any anti-keanu types out there would like to kick my butt unless i insult him somehow, then here goes: he was especially good at being CONFUSED when he first boards the ship in the REAL world. happy? Laurence Fishburne fits the role of Morpheus like a glove. he's not a supermean, anti-social hero that remains mean 'cuz he lost his family at the hands of a sentinel or anything, and he's not some hack that occasionally gets a cheesy one-liner that pretty much represents the movie, either. Though sadly, i've never seen any of Carrie-Anne Moss's other work, i DO think she kicks butt as Trinity. she has a very no-sense attitude, and i liked her one-liner when she "disarmed" neo's assailant during the bullet flo-mo scene. Joe Pantoliano is up there on my list of nifty kickers of @$$. he emphasizes it once again with his witty retorts and slightly malevolent look. NOT the kinda guy you wanna meet in a collection of data bits and binary codes AHEM, i mean, a dark alley. The other guys (i prefer not to use all 1,000 of my words right now) are good, too. Matt Doran was given a very good nickname. it fits him well. i wonder if he could hook me up with the Lady In Red?
THE PLOT
I dunno you guys, but i got most of the plot the FIRST time i saw it. sure, the second time explained it a little better, but i don't quite get all the reviews out there. They're just jealous because they can't quite grasp the concept of a movie where you actually have to THINK for once, instead of commenting on how big that leading character's gun was or that they have the same pair of glasses, but their friend Damon stole it, and that's why the person listening has never seen them on the idiot talking. you just gotta keep on your toes. and The Matrix helps doesn't make it hard for you to do that. I also like the fact that the previews for the movie never told me anything about the 'fields'... i was TOTALLY caught off guard by that. i think that's what i like best about this movie. Mr. Scary (you know who you are) can back me up on this: the preview didn't tell you the whole movie, or the ending (which i also thought was a disappointment for the matrix) it only tells you enough to make you say, hey, fred, wanna go see the matrix? that guy from point break is in there! then you find out that the actual movie isn't too much like you expected, which was a lot of blood(hey, can you honestly tell me there was a lot of blood flyin' around for that purpose?) and a lot of cleavage. also, the martial arts scenes were terrific. i didn't quite approve of the kicking and rolling in mid-air, but at least there wasn't too much of it. i admit, though, there WERE a few plot holes. observe:
how DID tank recover from the big gun blaster-thingy? is he part robot, or what? after all, he was hit like, three times. also, dozer is practically twice as big, and he was only hit like, once, and he's laying on the ground looking like somebody went at him with a flamethrower! and boy, that's one mean looking gun... i'll have a well-done char-broiled Dozer, please....
also, what was the point of neo diving into [plot spoiler prevention] in order to kill him? (not really a plot hole, just my personal critique, which this is all about right?) how would neo find out about morpheus and the matrix in the beginning of the movie? wouldn't the agents walk into his house or something and just kind of, um, "misplace" him? i mean, come on. the friendly robot squids at the matrix control center HAD to have seen that and 'deleted' it, even though morpheus would just put it back on again... this has been my really long list of things a lot of people want to beat me up and possibly steal my money me for because they are closed-minded and probably haven't even seen the movie, they just heard it all from people like me. ya don't like it, tell it to my cyberface!