Raising the bar... again.

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2003)

When the film The Matrix came out in 1999 it raised the bar for scifi action films everywhere. It's effects style, particularly "Bullet Time" has been parodied more times than I can count, from the parody smash Scary Movie to the cultural phenomenum "The Simpsons", and from commercials for reasturaunts to the Superbowl. The fact that so many have made use of their technique just goes to show how strong an impact that it had on society. The down side of this is this is that now the moves that were fresh, cutting edge, jaw dropping are now obsolete and passé. The Wachowski Brothers have mentioned this problem in several interviews that this has been one of their main focuses in making "The Matrix Reloded. "How do we top our last film AND separate ourselves from the knock-offs?" "The Matrix Reloded" has done this and more. I can only describe it as a roller coaster ride that gets progresivly wilder as you go. I can not recommend strongly enough how much you should see this film. If you have the opportunity to see it on the Big screen than even better.