A geek epic, and perhaps the definitive example of everything that is wrong with new millenium moviemaking.

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2003)

This CGI experiment is less a movie than a crass commercial for a video game. The high-tech visuals are stupid and the nature of the picture makes you wonder if any of the characters included are actual people or reasonable computer facsimiles. This is big-budget, brainless entertainment that's virtually unbearable; no wonder the box-office fell so drastically and quickly after the first weekend of it's release! So much of it is so bad that it's hard to pick a low point, but I'd say it's the grotesquely pretentious dance sequence that's so ridiculous as to be laughable; as if everyone was infected with the Debbie-Allen-Fame bug. Carrie Ann Moss looks like Cloris Leachman, making the stuporific Keanu Reeves a perfect love interest for her (and intercutting their love scene with the Debbie-Allen dance number struck the perfect balance). This is the pits!