There's a sucker born every minute

Rating: Null/10 (5 October 1999)

And just when I thought nothing mainstream would ever again be as bad as Striptease, this comes along. Wow! Keanu Reeves wins the Jon Voight award for wooden dialogue, and Laurence Fishburne gets a nod for good actor gone bad. Give me a break with all the Alice in Wonderland references and vague scenarios. I'm no film snob--I like Chevy Chase and Bogart just the same--but I have to say the Matrix came across as a poor imitation of a master. It looked like a script Kubrick would have rejected as mediocre, then filmed by directors perhaps better suited to music videos. View at your own risk.