ok....but nothing special (includes spoilers)

Rating: 5/10 (27 November 1999)

I think sometimes we tend to confuse dark science fiction movies with cyber stuff in them as also being really smart movies. The Matrix, which is really just William Gibson lite, does this unabashedly, it even has some weird pseudo zen-buddhism nonsense to try to overcomplicate "The Matrix". Fishburne spends half the movie saying, "The Matrix" is this, "The Matrix" is that, when he should have just gotten to the point that "The Matrix" is virtual reality. I can't stand pretentious science fiction. Maybe, if you've never read a science fiction novel, or seen a sci-fi movie in your life you'll like this, but otherwise its just a dopey comic book.