The Best Sci-Fi Film In The Past 20 Years

Rating: 9/10 (27 April 2005)

The Wachowski brothers have done it. They have brought back the sci-fi industry in an amazing film. The Matrix is complex and deep. Could this really happen?
Mr. Anderson (Keuna Reeves) is the best computer hacker in The City. He is odd yet skilled with computers, and he has come upon something strange. Something called the Matrix. After being confronted by a woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) he meets an alleged leader named Morpheus (Laurence Fishbourne) and is transported out of his world. He is dropped, cold and naked into a underground lake with no town and people in sight. Everything is of machines.
He is picked up by a hovercraft and slips out of conscious. He awakens to find himself aboard Morpheus' ship and learns that a war is raging between the humans and the machines in the real world. The world Neo is from is an illusion, not real. Now Neo is the last hope for the people as he is the Chosen One against the corrupt machines and a agent of the machines called Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving).
The Matrix is the best Sci-Fi film since the 1st Star Wars Film (1977) and does not disappoint at any level. The story is deep, complex and overall ingenious the way it is crafted. The dark, cold world, under the control of the machines is haunting and dark. The acting is near perfect, Reeves is tough and naive in his training. Fishbourne is perfect as the mentor of the troubled Chosen One. The film begins a story for what the life of Christ is like and is simply explained in the second and third film. The Wachowski brothers have made a classic sci-fi that will not be forgotten, at least for its special effects.
The Matrix. Starring: Keuna Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishbourne, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.
4 1/2 out of 5 Stars.