6/10- okay sci-fi action movie

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2009)

I remember seeing the posters for the Matrix plastered all over the place in the summer of 1999. It looked like just another action movie... and after seeing it, it IS really, but is just a little bit better than most mainstream action films.
Keanu Reeves is now Neo- every role he stars in is based on his icy soulless Neo character.
One of the reasons I hate the Matrix is because it rips off a lot of animes instead of being influenced by them (The most obvious is Ghost In The Shell and Golgo 13). The other is that between 1999-2004, it was the sworn god of all goth dickwads on the face of the planet.
All the actors in this movie, Reeves, Fishburne, the woman who plays Trinity, all of em I can't stand now, just because of all the hyperbole that was cemented into our heads to go see this film even if you've just been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
If ever I watch this movie, it's to remind me of the year 1999 and NOT to enjoy the brilliance of it, if there is any.