Deep thoughts and unnecessery violence - paradoxal combination?

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2000)

The Matrix is a combination of deep thoughts about technological development and tough action. The movie shows us in an intelligent way nightmares of the future world. The critic against too much virtual reality is needed, because who controls here in the middle of commercialism what is safe and good for humankind?
The outlook for the future that the film conveys to us is extremely sombre and oppressive. The characters are not any more able to destinguish the reality from the delution. Great visuality makes the movie more effective. Unfortunately every profound thought is abandoned after the first hour when endless action and unnecessary violence take the place.
Keanu Reeves is hired to this film for being a superman. His inadequate skills for the serious acting must have been compensated with a lot of action in the end. This is how the success is guaranteed: by the sufficient number of action sequences which contain lots of kicking, shooting and magical evasive movements.
Thanks to Wachowski brothers´ direction that the first half of the movie is worth seeing. The rest is to satisfy the desires of the masses with action, and at the same time The Matrix revealed it´s vanity.