Entertaining, but not as thought provoking as it tries to be.

Rating: 9/10 (11 April 1999)

The Matrix is enjoyable to watch and possibly even worth the eight bucks, but the concept is so far-fetched that it falls short of being as thought provoking as it tries to be. They want you to walk out of the theater with the Oliver Stone type feeling of "It's a conspiracy, man!" but it doesn't exactly work. The makers of the movie could have taken an example from Men in Black, in which the concept of the movie explained some weird stuff that is in our world so that it would make sense, but The Matrix just introduces even weirder new stuff.