Sometimes I wonder...

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2000)

A brief glance at some of the other comments regarding this film reveal an alarming phenomenon: it appears that some people actually LIKE The Matrix.
We pay the entrance fee, sit down, and then go home thinking that the special effects were quite impressive, so we must have got our money's worth in some convoluted way. Or maybe not. 'The Matrix' is plotless, braindead trash designed for a channel-hopping generation. The writers clearly flicked through an issue of Situationist International, missed the point, then threw in a few vaguely anarchist ideas into a sludgy mix of tried-and-tested box-office safe bets.
The film is stylish, in a kind of early 80's way, and features some highly dubious scenes of violence, shot in the style of car adverts. As for the ending, a caption reading 'Who's for a sequel? Same place in two years then, kids?' would have been appropriate.