booooooooooooring

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 1999)

This movie was way overrated. Intellectually stimulating? I don't think so. A decent movie, better than the average summer movie (e.g. Deep Impact -- GOD that was terrible), but nothing profound like it's made out to be.
The major premise -- people as fuel for the machines -- makes no sense. No sunlight means no plantlife, no plantlife means no animal life. Period. The machines are working on a net loss system that can't be sustained. Period. The screenwriters must have flunked biology 101.
And there were other inconsistencies that made no sense, like the prophet. If there ends up being an explanation for everything else, there should be an explanation for why she knew the future.
The Matrix just left me confused -- not because I didn't understand what was happening or why, but because I didn't see the point, didn't see what people thought was so great about it, didn't think it was visually impressive, etc. As I say, booooring...