Oh Boy - Big movie!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (21 June 1999)

I have - finally - just seen The Matrix, it took me quite a while to persuade my wife to see it too, and let me sum up this way, I went to watch the movie, she went to look at Keanu Reeves, yet her comment when we left the cinema was, "it just won't leave you alone, will it".
I will choose not to comment on the Special Effects, because as all know they are stupenduous. What I will comment on is the movie it self.
It is the kind of movie that won't leave you alone after you've seen it. There are so many things in it that you look at when you see it the first time and say "Why did this/that happen here?" and yet the explanation to almost all comes sometime later. Thus seing it a second time gives you all the more information, because you are prepared for the riddles, and are thus able to appreciate the movie better.
The plot itself is rather thin, but that doesn't matter, as it is carried nicely in the telling of the movie, The Messiah's personification is perhaps going a bit too far, and is in my mind one of the things that deduct from the movie.
Also the image of the "Agents", the first time they are introduced, the image that comes across reeks of "Men in Black" their clothes, and sunglasses. This is a pity, because it makes it harder to take them seriously. Something that they most definitely are.
But apart from this, it is not the last time I have seen this movie, I'll be going back to the cinemas soon for a second time.
A 9/10 for a great movie.