Folks, if you are boycotting the Matrix because it has Keanu Reeves in it, get over yourself now. And he has plenty of great reasons to do so. Enemy of the State uses it, and it feels forced. You're not going to get any story out of me - the surprises are one of the best aspects of the film. If I were in this movie, I suspect my name would be Crabby or Tampon or something lame.
Folks wearing black just look good.
Slick, modern, bad ass. The Matrix takes stuff that should be tired and somehow it's still cool. But the filmmakers saw the pitfalls the movie would fall into via the inevitabilities presented by its subject matter and they somehow avoided them. Please feel free to forward but just credit the reviewer in the text.