Excellent film, deserves a standing ovation

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2003)

This hugely influential film depicts the life of a man named Thomas A. Anderson (Neo). He lives two lives, one being that of a computer programmer for a major company. The other life is spent committing crimes of all kinds on his computer. His life is turned up and over when news of the world being a fake- a computer programme that uses the human body to give energy to AI (watch the film to completely understand (its very interesting)). After being released from this world by a group of people seeking "the One", living on a hovercraft with some obscure name. Neo is trained and taught to fight and survive in the world of the Matrix. Many supremely exiting action scenes follow that will have your mouth gaping and your eyes glistening in awe. This film was ground breaking in its use of "bullet time" and "Japan-imation". its only downfall, that I can see, and no doubt many people would disagree with me, would be on the casting of Keanu reeves as the lead role, and though it is easily his greatest role and the performance of his life, i cant help feeling that another actor would have been more suitable (I'm not entirely sure who this other actor is), but on past performance, how the Wachowski brothers came up with the star of such tosh as "chain reaction" and "speed" I shall never know. Never the less, this is definitely one of my favourite films of all time and deserves to be a lot higher up in the rankings of "top 250 films" than it currently is