kung fu movie or silly sci-fi?

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2000)

There are several philosophical issues referenced in Matrix, the most commonly mentioned of which is about the nature of reality. There's also the comparison of humans to a virus that takes over all available resources. But if you look hard enough, you can find the deeper question of free will. Does man control his own destiny? Is he in fact an unknowing slave to some evil external force?
These issues are handled so superficially that they end up detracting from the movie. It would have been better to skip the attempt at deep philosophy and just identify the good guys and the bad guys.
What that leaves this movie with is a laughable mix of kung fu, bullets, and other sorts of fairly normal physical mayhem intermixed with science fiction. A lot of people must feel that these go great together. This might be a great movie to spoof if Mystery Science Theater were still around, but otherwise, I'd suggest getting your kung fu and science fiction in separate movies.