I don't feel the hype.

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2019)

For this review, I'm not going to give the plot or anything like that. I'd rather just tell you why, as much as I enjoyed it, I don't recommend this.
I bought The Matrix on VHS in 12th grade to see it since my cousin suggested it and it's in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, a dare I am trying to accomplish.
Visually, this movie is astonishing. A fun fact I heard was that the movie was filmed to look like you were viewing it on a computer, which I could kind of see. The acting's fine, the stunts are cool, aspects like that are good or at least decent. However, I often found the story to be a bore.
At the point I saw it, I found may live action movies to be uninteresting and mainly stuck to animated movies. I was breaking out of it, so I just thought: see it for what it is. Find what you like about this. You can't watch animated movies forever!
Even with that mindset, I couldn't like The Matrix. 1999 had better movies to offer: American Beauty, The Green Mile, Magnolia, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, The Blair Witch Project, Office Space, etc. Heck, I'll throw Larry Boy and the Rumor Weed in there!
If you enjoy The Matrix, good for you. But it wasn't for me and I can't recommend to others.
Note: I almost gave this a 6 when I saw it, but an action segment with a train bumped it up one star.