It's good.

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 1999)

I'm amazed that I enjoyed this film as much as I did. I didn't really care for the Wachowski brothers' last film, Bound (but to be fair, it seems that everyone else loved it), and I'm not a massive Keanu fan, but together they've managed to put together one of the most entertaining films I've seen this year. The action scenes are in a class all of their own (John Woo should take notes... none of his American films have been nearly this well done). Carrie-Anne Moss and Laurence Fishburne deliver excellent performances, and Keanu isn't half bad himself... all the martial-arts training they took before filming really shows. After the first scene ended (which is absolutely breathtaking), the theater I watched The Matrix in erupted into spontaneous applause. And Hugo Weaving is perfectly cast as the genuinely creepy antagonist.