Seminal and deeper than it appears

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2004)

If you are a Sci Fi fan and haven't seen this movie yet, then welcome back to planet Earth. Instead of reading my boring prose, go and see this movie first and then if you want come back and read what I have to say. I am hoping what I write is a little obscure compared with anything else you may have read before about the Matrix Trilogy.
The core concept behind the story clearly comes from a combination of Neuromancer by William Gibson and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
The scene in this movie where Neo first wakes up in the real world is pretty much completely taken from the first chapter of "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer.
The wire work, you see in the Matrix and many modern Kung Fu movies was I think first featured in the daddy of them all namely Hsia nu aka A Touch of Zen, 1969.
The Jesus and resurrection allegories are too numerous to mention even down to the Neo minutes vs Jesus days prior to their respective resurrections.
We have billions of people living their lives in the Matrix and its always the 20th century. So you may have asked yourself how come no one in the Matrix notices that hey 50 years have gone by and we're still in the 20th century. All credit to the authors if, as I believe, they hint at the answer in the next two movies namely that the Matrix is on an infinite loop with infinitely many Neos.
No English movie versions of Neuromancer, The Foundation Trilogy, City, Tiger Tiger, A Roadside Picnic and many more greats but instead we have movies of Battle Field Earth (the only book I ever binned) and Johnny Mnemonic. Maybe the kid bringing Justice in The Golden Child really did get killed.