Matrix

Directed by

Andy Wachowski

Larry Wachowski

Keanu Reeves .... Neo Laurence Fishburne .... Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss .... Trinity

This is simply one of the best movies I've ever seen! Keanu Reeves usually acts and looks the same in all his movies but this time he really fits the character, and even better than he did in "Johnny Mnemonic". The visual effects are incredible but in no way done just for the sake of having visual effects, they're all completely justified and the story wouldn't have been the same without them. And the story is probably the only truly original story for a movie I've seen in a long time (just when I thought I couldn't be surprised), it had me in suspense from beginning to end. If I was to choose one movie that I was forced to see every day for the rest of my life, "The Matrix" would be it. It really kicks butt in every way, go see it now!!! (Star Wars episode 1 will have a hard time beating this movie!)

Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer by day, and a computer hacker by night, known only as Neo. A mysterious woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) has contacted him, and somehow she knows all about him. Things are not any better for Mr. Anderson at work, where he runs afoul of some menacing suits wearing sunglasses, which is always a bad sign. Annoying window washers add to his anxiety. And then there is Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), another person Mr. Anderson encounters who might or might not be telling him the truth. But Neo is about to discover the secret of the Matrix, and he might not like what he hears...

The Matrix is a total testosterone rush. The action scenes are exhilarating, and the special effects are groundbreaking. The multi-layered story provides an appropriate setting for this visual extravaganza. I have read that a lot of the story and action techniques are largely derivative of other works in literature and film. However, many of these other works are not very mainstream, and that probably explains the major box office success of The Matrix, since most people were being exposed to a lot of these ideas and visuals for the first time. The Matrix was in production long before it was released (and Directors/Screenwriters Andy and Larry Wachowski supposedly had written