Cyber wonderland

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 1999)

This is an action film that makes you think, at least a little. The plot doesn't stand up to much scrutiny (I can't believe it was supposed to), and borrows quite a lot from elsewhere, the backstory from The Terminator being the most obvious, but having said that, there is a great deal more going on below the surface. What is reality? How do we know that what we see is real? Does Fate exist, or do we just think it does with hindsight?
As Neo follows Alice's route through a dystopian Wonderland (following the white rabbit, the pill/potion and cookie/cake, the cat, the teaparty in the messroom complete with Mouse, the people who turn into a pig, although not one quite like the Duchess's baby, and others you can spot for yourself) the real becomes the surreal, which in turn becomes all too real. In the end we emerge from the rabbit hole to wake to our own reality, good or bad.
See this film. Marvel at the effects, but think about what it's saying.