Pathetic love story ruins a very good scifi action.

Rating: 5/10 (9 February 2005)

"The Matrix" is considered to be a great movie and one of the best scifi actions ever made. This is true, but only to some degree. The film has really fascinating visual effects and everything in it has cool look - the good guys, the bad guys, the action scenes, the strange Matrix-thing, the hellish future. It is also true that the movie was quite original and not an ordinary Terminator rip-off. That said, the film has some major flaws. Individually, neither Neo, nor Trinity were irritating, but as a couple they were extremely frustrating. The whole love story was annoying and pathetic and in the end of the movie I really hated all about it. The other big failure was the villain. Agent Smith was a joke, a machine who laughs evilly and talks about the problems of humanity is the cheesiest idea ever to be created. Why Terminators are scary? Because they act like robots. Smith is a clown. So my overall opinion of the film is low and I gave it 5 rating only because of the good action scenes and visual effects. I haven't watch the sequels and I don't plan to.