Painful brainwash

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2003)

This movie received too much attention and did a very good business. Probably the most discussed one that time, and the sequels thereafter. First time I had to watch it with a friend of mine who rented the video and the second time is last night, it came on Denmark TV1. So many people said so many things, there is nothing much left for me that I can write. But let me tell you a couple of things, dear American kids and adults, grow up and start doing stuff like throwing yourself under a rushing underground train, jump down from the Empire state building or eat bullets. Anything is possible, nothing is impossible. You can do anything, you can kill people, make them alive again, kill yourself and next moment you are still alive, because you are going through a painful brainwash and human life is nothing but a meaningless illusion. My suggestion is please don't die in the process.
And those silly dialogues, those supposedly mystique, hollow, abstract speeches, like "the answer is out there, it's looking for you", "if you are not one of us, you are one of them", I strongly believe they themselves don't even know what they are talking about and what it means!
Both Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss are horrible. I saw Fishburne once playing Othelo, he was unbearably painful to our eyes. And that woman who plays Trinity, Carrie-Anne Moss, she is not only ugly, she really gives me creeps so to say, I hate her hair, I hate her nose, I hate her teeth, I hate her voice. She made me real sick. I really wonder why one would think of these two people, Fishburne and Moss in this movie, while we have several tall fit macho people like Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Julia Roberts, Geena Davis, Rebecca De Mornay, Laura Linney...........
3 stars for the special effects out of 10.