Descartes with a $70 Million Dollar Budget

Rating: 9/10 (17 April 1999)

It's absurd that people are criticizing this movie for borrowing too heavily from sci-fi classics, modern philosophy, and martial arts action thrillers. Even Roger Ebert criticized the movie along these lines. The fact that the Wachowski's were able to integrate those 3 "genres" into a mind gripping, eye popping, heart pounding story is quite a feat in and of itself. "There is nothing new under the sun" so you might as well borrow from interesting themes as opposed to mindless ones. I hope Hollywood gets the message that people want to find a story underneath those million dollar effects. It does not have to be completely original just good. Free your mind...