Overrated ... and boring

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2005)

The Matrix is quite possibly the lamest cultural phenomenon since The Blair Witch Project. It's all polish and no substance. Frankly I don't find any redeeming qualities to this film franchise at all.
Lots of big flashy fight sequences with no context. Lots of high-tech special effects with no character. Lots of plot complexity with no heart.
I plain and simply do not get what all the fuss was about.
And it took me multiple tries to watch this film end-to-end without falling asleep in the middle. The whole sequence of Morpheus teaching Neo about the Matrix put me to sleep every time.
Horribly overrated. In ten years people will look back on this and say "what in the world was I thinking?"
4 out of 10.
Barky