The Matrix: A Web of Deceit

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 1999)

It seems to me that The Matrix wants badly to be seen as complex and intellectual; but the makers were constrained by the type of audience to which it would predominately be screened in front of. They therefore compromised by giving it both a script (?) and a male lead (Reeves) which would appeal to this 16-24 male viewer. In doing so, yet another potentially mature and clever film has been sacrificed to suit the young and the terminally thick. 4/10