"The One" that started it all

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2005)

Andy and Larry Wachowski's The Matrix is a great film that caused a new cinematic stir like Star Wars did 22 years before this film. It was innovative and creative to say the least - especially with its use of "bullet time" which was a cinematic style that was never attempted before. And the story is very interesting - it involves an apocalyptic future where most people are "jacked in" to the Matrix, a "real" world virtual reality representation of the late 20th century. There are those who realize it isn't real and would stop at nothing to destroy the Matrix from the machines that have enslaved most of the human populace - and they would accomplish this in a belief that Neo, The One, will bring about this revolution. A great film that should be cherished - a superb 9 out of 10.