Good ideas... but drowned with amazing FX's

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 1999)

As the film begins to unfold, one was awaiting how this film will develop, next the main character ("Neo"), is slow at first, and fast later, immersed into a total change of his reality and besides all of these, being credited as the "savior" of the human race.
This flick brings to us some interesting ideas about how "real" is our reality, but slowly this line of storytelling is dropped to favor the show of the FX's (outstanding, but more of the time submerging the story line than reinforcing it).
The supporting characters were all dull and plain, and the bad guys never looks really menacing or chilling. But after all you can enjoy with "Neo" becoming the savior that he told he was.
Hardly this movie can top "Blade Runner", film that many reviewers compares with. But in the end I liked this movie for the FX's and the original ideas. It's a sorrow that they were interfering between them, instead of collaborating to do a flick that may have been a really cool one.
Very nice nods to "The Wizard of Oz" (Say bye to Kansas, Dorothy...) & "Alice in Wonderland" (Follow the white rabbit...) that leased some thoughts and ideas to this film.
A very nice try for the Wachowski brothers, I'll be looking for another film of them, because I really hope they'll find a way to improve their storytelling...