a classic and really good film

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2004)

In my review for Matrix Revolutions, I told people to pay attention to the action, but I did not back that up. Since I believe this movie is just as good as its sequel, I will back up my statement. The first Matrix put brand new ideas (at least to me) into the world as we used to know it. There were ideas that were so convincingly shown in the first one, you see, like us being used as a battery and also humanity would bring armaggedon. Now, many people I know were disappointed that the sequels did not put any new ideas into their heads. They were disappointed that all the answers were not given to them. My question for them was: "why?" Wasn't the original idea enough to delve on in the first place? And besides, since when did humans ever get the entire idea of something. Why don't we just "choose" what we think is behind all these ideas? After all, our free will gives us "purpose," right? So, my theory is that the Wachowski brothers decided to replace a lot of the philosophical elements with pure and hard-core action (some of the best I've ever seen). This element works almost perfectly in the sequels. So, you see, die-hard fans of the Matrix trilogy, just because you aren't given the same amount of philosophy that there was in the first one, there's more than enough that's left-over from the first one. I love this movie. 9/10