Massively overrated remake of Tron

Rating: 4/10 (16 April 2000)

Here's one film the hype of which I simply don't get. The special effects aren't that good, and the martial arts are junior grade HK stuff. Keanu is terrible as usual and Carrie-Anne Moss isn't much better. The premise itself has some promise, but we spend too much time in The Matrix, where the rules seem to apply only when the Wachowski Brothers want them too. Example: why do our heroes have to be transported through a particular phone wire? Why can't they use their ubiquitous cell phones? Could it be to set up some chase scenes? Why, in fact, does The Matrix include all these old fashioned wired phones, when the bad guys know well and good that the good guys use them as a means of transportation?
Judging from the Reality that Fishburne and company live in, I'll take The Matrix any day over the metaphysical bollocks that apparently passes for real life.