Bruce Lee meets "Dune"

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 1999)

Considering all the impressive (or at least interesting) Sci-Fi movies of the past few years (e.g., "Contact!", "Cube", "Dark City", "Pi","Gattaca", etc.), the attention being paid to "The Matrix" completely baffles me. It seems to be an unconvincing amalgam of a bad Kung-Fu movie (yeah, I DO know that's redundant) with a confused and overly-pretentious Sci-Fi "vision." Unfortunately, it really doesn't work on either level. I kept watching in morbid fascination, waiting for something unexpected (or at least INTERESTING ;)) to happen, but it never did. **1/2 out of **** for the FX.