A classic

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 1999)

This film is without doubt one of the premier science fiction films of the 1990's and must rank along side films such as Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet.
While it is not the intellectual giant that some people feel it is, it is provocative and disturbing. The concept of humans becoming battery's for machines is a perspective which turns on its head, our perceptions of ourselves as inviolate organisms.
In addition to the plot, the action sequences and special effects were in a class apart, which also makes this movie one helluva ride. The viewer is taken on a discovery of the Matrix which progresses with Neo's discovery of it, and this involves one in the film far more that is the norm for films. The cast are without exception excellent, in particular Laurence Fishburne, who always is.
Seldom has a movie absorbed me as much as this one. After my friends had hyped it so much, I was afraid I would be disappointed, but it's a 10 out of 10.