Free Your Mind

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2001)

This is one of my favorite movies. It is the most intelligent action movie I've ever seen. It's one of those movies that are just fun to watch, because even if you don't get it (I didn't the first time I saw it), you can still enjoy the massive action scenes, the great visual effects, and the amazing choreography of the fight scenes. I also really liked the acting. This is the first Keanu Reeves movie in which I could take him seriously and not see him as the time traveling valley dude Ted (I thought the Bill and Ted movies were very funny though). He is convincing, and he is a likable character, so that makes it all the more enjoyable to watch him undergo the many secrets of the Matrix.
Carrie-Anne Moss was also very cool and sexy as Trinity. She has a good deal of talent and I hope type casting doesn't end her career like so many other Sci-Fi movie actors (i.e. Mark Hammel and Roy Schieder). And of course, who could forget the great Laurence Fishburne, who made Morpheus such a cool character. I really think that only Laurence Fishburne could have done such a good job of doing Morpheus.
I think this movie is for pretty much everyone. The only people I think that wouldn't like this movie are people that can't handle even a little violence, or are upset at the idea of a bleak future (which is probably where the earth is headed anyway, more or less). It's just a kick ass movie. Check it out. 10/10