And I want to be someone important ...like an actor

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2008)

There is probably no better line in this film that illustrates the bizarre fallacy of out own daily lives than this.
For Neo (Keanu Reeves) his daily life is a series of disjointed and disconnected segments as he works as a software programmer by day and at night works as a computer hacker of sorts. This world is crashed in on by three black suited individuals who want to know more about what Neo is doing and his attempts to make contact with an individual called Morpheus, who, we are told, is as a suspected terrorist. As the movie moves on the world around Neo seems to change by the second as he searches for answers to discover what the matrix is.
"Unfortunately, no-one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." and therein lies the big reveal as the Matrix is nothing like you anticipate or expect. After this all the rules that usually apply to films to action sequences to good and evil and even gravity are bent, twisted and downright broken as the film moves towards it's inevitable, pre-destined within it, conclusion.
"There is no spoon,"
The Matrix was a groundbreaking film when it came out and whilst two inferior sequels have dimmed some of the appeal for people, if you do what I do, which is wilfully disregard them the same way that I do with the Highlander sequels, then you still have one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, a film that leaves with you when you walk out of the pictures and makes you question every aspect of the world which we perceive to be the real world.
When I first watched the film I was left totally baffled by Morpheus initial dialogue of what the Matrix was and then left spellbound when I discovered what lay beyond. The learning curve the Neo experiences, we experience with him, we fear when he is not the one, worry when we learn of the fate of Morpheus and cheer as lives out his predicted fate, the good, as well as the bad.
The action sequences are breath taking and the lobby sequence is one of the most amazing of all time, yet the great thing about it, is that it means nothing without the rest of the movie wrapped round it.
No bad scenes and no bad acting.
The only downside, it was done in Doctor Who first and it's not Empire Strikes Back.
still, an extremely worthy nine and deserves it's place in the 250.
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