Fav movie of my whole collection

Rating: 10/10 (27 April 2002)

I had the luck to watch it in english, Morpheus voice is what gives you the feeling of "I know it all, just listen to me"; the italian dub is somewhat horrible instead.
Yet, the REAL reason I liked the movie really very much is it's "fidelity" to the real thing: the theme of AI and technologic progress has been abused during all the cinematographic history, but this story includes it in a fashionable and belieable way. You never find yourself telling "Hey c'mon, this is impossible to happen", at least you can raise up some doubts about the "energy cycle" thing explained by Morpheus.
The costumes are most original; black is a trendy color, sure, but the long raincoats, the cool sunglasses, and the military boots combination makes up a sort of "brand" of the movie.
**ATTENTION: SPOILER FOLLOWS**
Example of what I am telling above about the credibility: we are in the 2099 in the movie: mankind obscured the sky during the war against the intelligent machines, to prevent them using the solar energy as power supply; big mistake I say: no sun, no water cycle, no chlorophillian synthesis, no basis for the feeding chain... you need to artificially lighten the plants. How? Using the supposedly already depleted combustble sources? Machine have taken up the energy production after winning the war... why didn't they choose atomic fusion? Can it be possible that in 100 years we weren't able to find a way to contan that reaction? They choose humans instead, and use them as batteries fooling them about the real life and making them falsely "happy" to be more efficient. Hey, the movie wouldn't have seen the light if it weren't for this escamotage, we agree. But then again: how is it possible to feed humans with their own deads? You cannot reuse the old to power up the new, expecting there is a 100% effectiveness. Some energy is lost during the process, thus being the remnant insufficient to supply the whole system.
This is the "only" thing really messed up in the (still the best for me) movie: the energy cycle.