Excellent graphics, recycled story

Rating: 8/10 (23 May 2001)

Matrix is ground-breaking as far as CGI is concerned. We witness truly marvelous artwork. Aside from that, it's nothing special, nor original. It mostly reminded me of Carpenter's They Live. It stimulates our interest till the moment of the big revelation and then degenerates to a shooting extravaganza. We get some royal with cheese at the end with the love story and the usual close ups of Keanu for the girls. I didn't regret having seen it though, the guys at the visual effects department did a monumental job.