Cult movie? Not really.

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2000)

After watching a movie which some call "The best sci-fi film of the Millennium" I had this serious and uncontrollable urge to go in depth and examine it to the last piece. You can ask me "Why can't you just seat back and receive pleasure?" I can. But not when it comes to movie which is called cult.
The special effects were good. But the only reason they were made is to create a show. Check out the eXistenZ - I don't think there were any computer animated effects at all, but you get a full feeling of another reality.
What's really bad is a plot of the film. This is supposed to be a movie were the Good Guys are fighting the Bad Matrix. But what Matrix is bad is questionable. It takes away people's freedom to control their lives but allows them to live in a bright sunny world, when the real world is dark ruins, ugly closing and food that looks and tastes like plastic. Some people could say that the Matrix is doing a good deed.
Not to mention that using a people's bodies as a batteries is not very effective, you have to feed them and that's a real waste of energy.
Absolutely unnecessary thing in this film is a Kung Fu. If you can bend spoons and duck bullets with the power of your mind, you don't need any martial arts. It was made only to put some action into film.
And the worst thing is a prophecy about the "Chosen-One". Neo was the "Chosen-One" all the time and it doesn't matter if Trinity would fall in love with him or not. He had his abilities, he trained them and it's logically to assume that he would get them. But no! He fully gets them only when Trinity says she loves him. Yes, it was in Oracles prophecy, but don't You think that the things You can do are not depend from what other people think about You? This is really falls apart, and this is a major moment in movie.
To avoid any farther damaging of a Matrix fan's feelings, I must say that this movie is not all that bad. It's a good show and you can really enjoy it, but please, don't call it "The best sci-fi film of the Millennium"! Go see Alien instead.

My mark - 4 out of 10.