Yes! Watch this movie! You know you will.

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 1999)

This movie for me IS Star Wars. It is The Terminator, Dark City/Blade Runner, cyberpunk/virtual reality noir, and it emulates John Woo and countless of the really good Chinese martial arts movies. It is cool like Men In Black & Blade, but not paper-thin like MIB & Armageddon. The amount of control & thought put into this film compares it to Kubrick's 2001.
(start 2001 paragraph) If you watch 2001 over and over for several days, you will begin to see patterns --the repeating structure in the filmmaking that Kubrick (supposedly) put in there intentionally. If you count how many times Lawrence Fishburn says "I can only show you the door, you are the one that must step through", you will realize (or maybe not) that the important patterns within the movie repeat themselves. The use of the term "The One" does not imply that he is the Messiah (Jesus Christ), but rather The Enlightened One (The Buddha.) If we were to make a parallel comparison (talk religion), I would argue that "the door" in this case is Christianity's The Savior allusion, which is just something easy to comprehend for the masses to cling to. It is only there to bring the people to the table so-to-speak. The substance really is what is beyond that door --the other unnamed and more thoughtful Eastern(?) religions. The door represents enlightenment.
But the movie does NOT take itself seriously --the point that I argue with my friend. If it wanted to seriously bludgeon you, it would be The Thin Red Line. It is not, it is Star Wars.
(the Star Wars paragraph). Tank is Han Solo, Neo is Luke, Trinity is not only a beautiful name & character, but is also Leia. The ship is held together by duct tape (the Falcon), and it's pilot/owner is Lando, Yoda & Ben put together. If I were to say, Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, would people know what I was talking about? And by the way, The Matrix is The Force, as described by Morpheus/Obi. Can everybody say Joseph Campbell? You don't have to really...
If you do not understand my review, think of me as just "the door." How important really is the door? Where is the substance really? Where are the ideas? Of course, you are the one that must walk through...
(Yes, this is a positive review.) (A definition of Star Wars: a movie in which a fan goes to see over and over, and still sees different things in it every time.)