The time has come to ask..is Matrix the best SF movie series ever

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2003)

The time has come to ask..is Matrix the best SF movie series ever, or the best MOVIES ever?? Apologies to the Wizard of Ozs and Citizen Kanes of the world, but I am struck by the sheer weight of imagination and detail of the whole movie series. While literature has explored the ideas in the Matrix before in one state or another, have we ever seen such mindboggling, contemporary creativity outside of the French new wave in the 60s? Their structure was different, the ideas were new and they explored territories American movies didn't...how out of place the Matrix seems to me..in a world where everything entertainment has to be explained leaving the audience to fill in no gaps with their own logic and we're left with a hollow, empty feeling days after seeing the movies. You may hate the Matrix, disagree with its storytelling, but you just won't forget it..its not possible, and unlike much of the vaunted and current LOTR trilogy, its is totally relevent to modern living and thought processes. I will only grow in my understanding of the whole series, I'll only learn to appreciate it more and in hindsight. Its the sign of a true classic, and the series has instantly become that.

RAMA