Don't believe the hype, this movie is average

Rating: Null/10 (11 April 1999)

Laurence Fishburne has done a good job of some great characters, this is not one of them. Keanu Reeves has insisted on playing Ted from the Bill and Ted movies, even when he's not supposed to and he does it again here. The concept behind this movie is great. The effects are fantastic even if it is a bit hard to believe the robots shaped like squids. Hugo Weaving does a cool job playing the evil agent Smith. But of course even he cannot pull this film out of the mediocrity which Reeves stamps on each picture he stars in. The best bits of this film (apart from Weaving's strange American accent) are seeing the Sydney skyline and trying to figure out where you've seen John Pantoliano before.