Great Conspiracy Theory

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2001)

Everyone else talks about the mind-blowing special effects and the wooden acting of Keanu (whoa..) but I'd like to address the issue of conspiracy theories.
I see this film as a wonderfully constructed and well-thought-out conspiracy theory about the "reality" that we live in. Everything from the nature of "deja-vu" to the fact that a lot of stuff tastes like chicken, is a wonderfully comical attempt to explain our world. Plus, the more serious stuff about bringing Neo's "real" body up to strength, since really, he had never used it before, brings a sense of realism to the theory.
While most movies these days are so full of logic gaps, The Matrix seems to have thought about its theory and left very little open-ended. After all, good Science Fiction is about the "what-if" question of the nature of humanity and technology, etc. Good Science Fiction only works if the proposed future is proven to be feasible and at least somewhat realistic.
Finally, I did not write this comment. It was my "residual self-image" that did. Whoa...