Incredibly overrated

Rating: 3/10 (15 June 2001)

The directors of "The Matrix" mistake style for dark, depressing sets and gloomy-looking people uttering mumbo-jumbo about "The One". The film has an imaginative and wonderfully paranoid premise: What if the world we live in is not what we think it is, but an illusion created by malevolent beings. Unfortunately, we are subjected to stupid training segments for Reeves by the resistance (an ill-concieved concept all in its own), complete with an inane kickboxing sequence, in which the combatants fly through the air, impressing the half-wits in the audience, while we with IQ's over 50 just sit and yawn. The special effects are more laughable than spectacular. Seeing a bullet fly by some guy in slow motion is certainly not amazing. The movie could have been so much better if it had had a better script, and omitted every scene "outside reality" I guess. All in all, this is science fiction for cavemen.