Some good ideas, some bad ideas, and horribly executed

Rating: 1/10 (19 July 2014)

Now let me start out by saying I have seen two movies by the Wachowski brothers "The Matrix" and "Speed racer". While in my opinion these films were both bad I am still willing to give "Cloud Atlas" and "Bound" a chance, but the subject of this review is "The Matrix". Now I will start out by saying the acting is just okay. Keanu Reeves' puts his one talent, looking very confused, to work quite nicely, so I can't believe the original consideration for this role was Will Smith. The rest of the cast does okay, but they don't have much to work with. Seriously, name one personality trait of any character. It's difficult isn't it? By the way I don't mean what the character does I mean what are they like. Next, I am sure the action was cool at the time, but there actually isn't much action. The one good action scene was lifted straight from the movie "blade" and bullet time was actually invented by the brilliant director Yasuomi Umetsu, just watch "Kite" and you will know what I mean. Plus the bullet time doesn't make the action any more exciting it's just there to look cool. The philosophy is somewhat interesting until you learn that it was all basically lifted from the film "Ghost in the Shell". In fact now that I think about it everything in this movie is like "Ghost in the shell" the visuals, the story, the totalitarian, but somewhat Utopian society, all of it. I could go on about the countless plot holes and everything else that is wrong with this mess, but I'm done for today.