The Matrix Movie Review

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2013)

The Matrix, a 1999 futuristic movie about a future community where human gets to enter a virtual world called the matrix. When enter the virtual world, the participant's senses interpret the experience of taste, touch, smell, hear, and see as real. In the virtual world, pain feels real, and fatal injuries in the virtual world can lead to death in the real world. The world of the matrix is attractive to participants because of the supernatural ability and unlimited potential they experience in the Matrix. In the Matrix, you can jump distances that defy the concepts of time and gravity; one can even dodge a point blank incoming bullet. Doesn't that sound like the 2010 movie Inception? The Matrix is one of those movies that introduced a new idea to the big screen.
Written and directed by Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, The Matrix wind around the theme of extraordinary human reflection. The movie stared Keanu Reeves (Neo), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), and Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith). The success of the movie had called for two more movies, and in 2013, Agent Smith made a small comeback with a Matrix style commercial called "Agent of Good".
Just when everyone was waiting for the coming of Y2K, the movie The Matrix brought a very brilliant idea around the thought that advance technology may be appealing, but there also is the what if possibility that the machine we have created will one day take over our world. While the idea of the human race being menaced is not original to The Matrix, the graphics, and editing work make placed it in category above the rest.
From the opening scene, begin with a fast changing computer code that formed The Matrix and the secret conversation between two agents' conversing on a secured telephone line that will soon be breached by Agent Smith and his other virtual team of police officers. In this early scene, the director introduced the technique of freezing the action and zoomed in camera movement to illustrate speed and unbelievable human reflexes. This technique is called time slicing; it is used throughout the entire movie.
The movie gave a more modernized version of those Chinese Kun Fu masters who can jump and make precise fighting moves that we imitated and admired as kids. We will always love movies like that; they inspire us, they make us believe in the possibility that we too could be someone of incredible abilities. We can only imagine how long it took the crew team to make such a great blend of graphic and sounds that makes The Matrix the king of time slicing techniques.