The Matrix is a good film that prompts important questions about the role of computers in our lives.

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 1999)

The Matrix is a very entertaining, thought-provoking film that combined great camera work with a bold storyline. It takes place about 200 years from today, in a world ruled by computers. Man programmed them to learn and evolve and is now reaping the punishment for that. Humans are slaves to the machines, living out their whole lives in cocoons where their biochemical energy is "farmed" to power the computers. While their bodies are trapped in these cocoons, their minds are trapped in "The Matrix," a hideously complex computer simulation of late 20th Century. The humans live happy lives in this imagined world, ignorant of the true reality.
But there are a handful of humans who live outside the Matrix. These computer "hackers" who live on the run from the computers know how to tap into the Matrix. They can observe those trapped in the program. They can even help them escape. But they are first looking for the man who will fulfill the Oracle's prophecy: the man who has the ability to "change things" inside the Matrix. The man who will be able to free humankind from bondage.