Too Good To Be Called An Action Flick

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2001)

I would warn anybody reading this that there might be a few spoilers in here, but if you're one of the four or five people on the planet that haven't seen this movie, you deserve it. I hate to call this an "action movie," because THE MATRIX is so much more than that. This movie has more to it than can be described in a single paragraph. The special effects are groundbreaking, the acting was surprisingly good, but both only served the purpose of getting people to see this movie. The true greatness of THE MATRIX lies in all its underlying themes: the apocalyptic nature of the film, the myriad number of Biblical references (e.g. Cypher being a play on the name Lucifer, or the name of the hovercraft being named the Nebuchadnezzer after the Babylonian king who freed the Jews), the faceless evil that was the machines running the planet, and the incredible feeling of hope within the film that perpetually touches the audience. This movie has it all, and I have yet to come across somebody that didn't put this in at least their top 2