Total suspense of dispense of disbelief, until you start thinking about it.

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 1999)

I was absolutely blown away when I saw this movie in the cinema (I urge you to view it in the cinema, not on video). The special effects are top notch and this is the first time I saw Asian cinema style combat SFX and choreography used properly in a Hollywood production. The music is brilliant, the acting is more than adequate (Even by Keanu Reeves). It even pulls something of that very few modern action movies in succeed, it suspended my disbelief to such an extent that I didn't get the opportunity to be annoyed by impossibilities, improbabilities and inconsistencies.
It was only after I had left the cinema that I started thinking about what I'd seen and I started realizing that things didn't were as plausible as I'd presumed. The most annoying thing about the premise of the movie is the fact that humans are used as batteries because of a lack of other energy resources. It is completely ludricous to assume that with such advanced technology at their disposal that the machines couldn't find an alternative such as Nuclear fusion or fission, wind or wave energy, or even satelites with solar panels which beam their energy down in microwaves. There are other inconsistencies, most barely noticeable, but still annoying enough for me. My advice is that if you want to see an absolutely brilliant action movie, go see The Matrix, but if you want to see a similarly themed movie about the boundaries of perceived reality, go se Dark City. Dark City tells a similar story and doesn't focus as much on SFX and action and thus is able to tell a much better story. Still, as far as action movies go, The Matrix rates up there with the original Die Hard movie.