One of the best movies in years!

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 1999)

Kudos to Warner Brothers for breaking their bad-movie slump. THE MATRIX is their best release in a long time, and it will make a kickass DVD! I wasn't expecting much from a cheesy sci-fi movie starring Keanu Reeves and a bunch of other unknown actors, but whoa, I was blown away by this!
There are a few problems with the movie, granted, but these problems are far outweighed by the incredible ingenuity of the story line and the best fight scenes I have ever seen! The "agents" were especially cool. The worst thing about this movie was the "talking bad-guy" syndrome. The bad guys talk too much when they are winning. But it doesn't detract too much from the movie, since the agent's speech is actually somewhat interesting. Also, the "humans as energy" scheme made no sense. But there was nothing that made the plot fall apart.
Keanu Reeves is also... gasp;... GOOD in this movie. I still can't believe that is really him and Fishburne fighting. Those scenes are so well done it defies belief. I thought the first half of the movie was the best though, when you don't really know what is going on. And the sci-fi jargon actually makes sense, so it is not a bore to listen to. Well, if you haven't seen this movie yet, do it! I hope TPM can top Matrix!