A new standard is born

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 1999)

Andy & Larry Wachowski are to be placed right alongside Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick in the next editions of historybooks as true innovators of cinematography.
Although the plot is a bit of ol' this an' that, the performance (on film as well as on computers) is sheer visual poetry.
The mood in The Matrix is perhaps borrowed from Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) but that is not in any means negative.
If the sound by Dane A. Davis and David Lee III (+all the rest) doesn't receive an Academy AwardT I'll have to eat my hat. The audience really was listening on the show I attended, not too common these days - that's a credit as good as any praise here.
Contrary to what Morpheus might say, we now can be sure of a bright future for mankind's creativity, the light comes from Oz.