There's definitely fresh originality in this great movie. Most thrilling and exciting stuff! A MUST SEE!!

Rating: 1/10 (13 September 1999)

Be advised; the text below *** CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS ***
Only thing that kind of disturbed me after seeing this great entertaining action/thriller was that why on earth those machines granted us humans with that pseudo-world in the first place? I don't think that machines would care less if we'd see our actual horrid reality rather than that artificially created 'nice' one. Am I supposed to believe that a machine has a sense of morality and pity? A machine with a consciousness? That's a good one. ;) That's not even too unique idea to begin with and even if so, that's really not too plausible here when considered how gruesome and ruthless those machines and their world is portrayed in this film's actual reality -not in that VR called the Matrix. Slightly controversial, yes, but if you can get past that you're facing a truly mind-blowing action/thriller movie experience!
But what about the city of Zion -humankind's _last_ refuge? We didn't get even a quick peek at it, why? And why did the machines just let Reeves escape from that alien fish tank (whatever it was!)? He simply pulls those freakish tubes off, after that the creepy spider-like machine comes poking around and decides to lift him up and throw him in the sewer pipes. Which it does. Reeves lands in water, tries hard to stay in the surface and *WHAM* the next moment he wakes up in Morpheus' and his crew's ship. (I'm not 100% sure if that's how it went, I might have missed something during these two scenes but I simply can't remember anymore since -let's face it- everything in this flick seems to happen at triple fast-forward! Heheh!)
I mean what the **ll was that suppose to be? While they're examining Keanu in the ship we learn that he's too weak to use his muscles (They in fact have to be re-built!) let alone use his eyes (Having never before used them in real life.)! And still he had somehow managed to get rid of the tubes stuck up in his a... body while being trapped as a human battery (Now that's witty, really!) in that container and struggled to stay afloat in water JUST a few moments ago! There are even more confusing stuff in the film than just these that I mentioned. I just hope the sequel(s) will provide us with well-reasoned answers to all those questions troubling -at least- me but hopefully you too. ;)
All those biblical referrals and enough ambiguous and cool philosophical one-liners and quotes plus a dialogue and a plot which messes with you head more than you'd like to, are pretty easy ways to make a movie seem more intellectual, sophisticated and even artistic to some content than it really is. Basically you can come up with any conclusions and try your best to reason what this flick really was about and still you don't know if you're right or wrong. I suppose everybody can see this movie in so many different ways if so wants. And that's just great! At least I personally like movies that really make me wonder and question stuff -no matter in what way that goal is achieved.
Cool, cold and distant acting. Some may consider that as bad acting, but frankly said that sort of style fits like a glove in the film's dark and "mildly" bizarre atmosphere. Great mind-boggling plot. Really far-out wicked special FXs! And maybe most intense (read: FAST!!) action scenes I've ever seen. Visually stunning. What else you wanna hear?? Go see this in some quality movie theater. Hold on to your seat and enjoy the ride!
PS. Would _you_ have taken the blue pill...? I would have.