Very fast, very furious!

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2003)

This movie is of a twofold nature: it starts out like your average Star Trek film, showing us people in silly costumes and ridiculous underground sets (the city of Zion). To make matters worse, Morpheus - one of the central characters in the first part of the trilogy - seems to have turned into a crazed lunatic delivering a speech that closely resembles the one the President gave in "Independence Day".
The masses of Zion, though, thrive on his words and immediately dance like crazy in what reminded me of the dance sequence in the first "Blade"-movie. All in all: the first half hour of the film disappointed me very much. It´s almost unbearable to sit through.
But wait for what comes after that: I think it is legitimate to call the highway fight- and chase sequence one of the most dazzling visual attractions that have hit the screen yet!
Unfortunately, I wasn´t able to follow all of the philosophical paranoia statements that characters in the film make. I was especially dumbfounded by the scene where Neo meets the creator of the Matrix. So, I´ll admit it, I WILL go to see the film again!
It seems like an instant classic in the new genre of cyber thrillers!