Original in some ways but clichéd in others

Rating: 7/10 (24 July 2019)

The Matrix is a very entertaining movie, with good acting (bar some over-kill scenes), tapping largely to viewers' emotions (you know, good vs evil and all that) and has lots of brilliant original ideas of superpowers humans can have, which is the best part about it that made it endure.
At the same time there are lots of clichés like the wardrobe a combination of Mad Max, Sons or Anarchy, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. And oh the idea that love can fix everything is the biggest cliché since Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I remember the word "CreatOr" Jesus wept!
The "science" part of Sci-fi in the main primes is really very absurd. Humans "combined with a form of fusion" serve as batteries. WHAT! HOW? Machines need to keep us alive in an imaginary world to use our energy. WHAT! Someone who helped create the Matrix died and somehow his reincarnate will be able to decode and destroy it. WHAT! WHY?
They chose to make it fantasy movie, is NOT sci-fi, and like any fantasy, you either enjoy it and get on board with the premise or you don't. As a teenager when it first came, I loved it - now I can watch it in the background while doing something more useful because it has nothing of substance to engage my brain.