The Matrix Has You! - The Review

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2008)

In the dusk of the millennium, The Matrix was released to screens worldwide, dazzling audiences around with it's kung-fu martial arts, rapid-fast punches, impossible leaps, intense story and gripping heroes and villains.
Keanu Reeves plays the protagonist Thomas A Anderson, a program writer for a software company, who also lives a double life hacking as "Neo" while he searches for a man named Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne). Carrie-Anne Moss plays Trinity, a gravity-avoiding woman who has so much skill and precision who make anyone think she is a guy. You throw in the rest of the cast and you've got a pretty good crew of resistance against the machines.
It sorta plays off as a Terminator-esquire type movie doesn't it? With fictitious Neo as the Connor -prophetic, we will win because of him- character. Even with that, I enjoy The Matrix for everything that it is. It's a science-fiction action movie with tons of laughs and heart-felt moments. I especially like the effects that were never used before.
Actors that do the kungfu moves are actually doing the moves and not using stunt doubles. I hate when an actor is "believed" to be doing the moves and they don't even know how even "pretend" to know the moves. People will give grief for the romance subplot, but it's really not a subplot since it's hinted at during the entire movie, it's just that until the end, Trinity couldn't speak about it because she was afraid.
I love how complex the plot gets near the end and I love the story itself because it makes you question yourself, the world, and wonder really - am I a program? It's one of the -- if not the -- greatest films ever created and that's something to say because it's science fiction fantasy. I am not alone in that statement, considering it won 4 Oscars, one in the category of special/visual effects. If you hate it, I'd really like to know why.