An exhilarating sci-fi treatise on the nature of reality.

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2010)

A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) is recruited to help expose an alternative reality designed by invading machines to enslave humanity. The film contains many references to the cyberpunk and hacker subcultures.
The Matrix was a hugely successful and influential science-fiction blockbuster - a nerd's wet dream, essentially, though less profound and original than it thinks, particularly in its representation of a dystopian futurescape. It deserves credit for at least attempting to blend state-of-the-art thrills, each set-piece insistent on topping the one before, with a more existential line of inquiry (or a line of inquiry as existential as a Joel Silver film will allow).