Breathtaking!

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2008)

What would you do if you found out that the real world you lived in wasn't what it seemed? In the spring of 1999, "The Matrix" popped into theaters where prior to showing how computers can play a role in people's lives, the movie introduced fans dazzling special effects that would change the film-making industry with dozens of directors and hundreds of inspiring young artists wanting a piece of the action.
Keanu Reeves plays Anderson, who goes by the name of Neo on the Internet, a computer hacker who's trying to find out about a character named Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). He digs deeper before he realizes that a group of agents led by Smith (Hugo Weaving) capture him and use him to see if he can spill any information about Morpheus. Anderson refuses before being set up by the agents in one horrifying scene that I can't even describe as we speak.
Later Anderson is telephoned by Morpheus to meet with his crew where the hacker meets with his idol face to face.
Neo gets more than he bargains for while hearing Morpheus explaining that a war was going in the world between freedom fighters like themselves to those opposing (the agents). He later sees that the way they work is through computers where they're hooked behind a plug and like a computer, information gets put into them from action, weapon and vehicle handling and more.
"The Matrix" is not only a grand special effects extravaganza, but it uses everything both old and new from philosophy, western spaghetti (cowboy movies), Kung-Fu, and breaking time dimension where scenes run in slow motion. It's so shocking that it's one of the few Sci-Fi movies where you feel that you need to pay attention to.