Ambitious, not a classic but lots of fun.

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 1999)

This movie cheerfully borrows from damn near every action/adventure/sci-fi genre in recent memory, and a fair sampling of recent video games to boot. The plot is a tad too ambitious for the script -- for a movie that makes so much about obeying and/or bending the rules that govern reality, its own rules are pretty shaky at times. But who cares? It's fun to watch, from the electro-insects to Keanu Reeves trading snap kicks in cyberspace with Laurence Fishburne, to Carrie-Anne Moss' turn as the world's most dangerous leather freak. (Her opening sequence is one of the movie's best.)