Humanities Last Hope (some spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2004)

'The Matrix', written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers, is a futuristic science-fiction thrill ride into what's real and what's not. Aside from the ground-breaking special effects and action scenes, it also has an interesting and original storyline. The movie is based on a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) in search of the "Matrix.' Though not quite sure what it is, one day Neo finds his computer typing to him by itself, telling him to go to a club. After meeting a women named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Neo's life is thrown into many strange and unexplainable events such as having his mouth melted shut. He finally meets the man whom he was seeking all along, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and finally discovers what the Matrix really is. Throughout the rest of the film, Neo sets out discover his destiny as "The One". The idea of the film, though somewhat confusing at first, is very original. Almost all of man is in a type of artificial coma and interlinked in a dream-like computer program that they see as earth as we see know it now. The real world is run by robots, built at one time to serve man, but eventually became to smart and defeated mankind. The robots keep humans in capsules and use them as an energy source like batteries.
Almost all of the movies appeal, aside from its unique storyline, is in its special effects. Many of its fight scenes are set in slow-motion that defies gravity, a mans normal strength, and bullets that can be dodged. The action in this film is some of the greatest I have ever seen, and the originality of the plot is that much more interesting. 'The Matrix' is definitely a must-see.