Only in Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (19 April 1999)

Only in Hollywood could a stiff like Keanu Reeves get top billing over a fine, classically trained actor like Laurence Fishburne. And only in Hollywood could a typical, derivative, way-too-long shoot-em-up action movie get such good reviews.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to burst your bubble, but there were maybe ten minutes worth of eye-popping special effects. The rest? Ponderous clap-trap about "The Martix" and "The One." Most of the "action?" Typical gun fights where for some reason twenty "bad guys" with automatic weapons (on their home turf) cannot shoot two intruders. It was boring and unbelievable the last 2,500 times it was done, and it is boring and unbelievable now.
I gag on my mouse.
One thumb down.