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The Matrix
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann
Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano
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| MPAA Rated: |
R |
| Released By: |
Warner
Bros.
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| Web Site: |
www.whatisthematrix.com
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| Kiddie Movie: |
Nope.
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| Date Movie: |
She might get scared and hold your hand.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Nah.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Lots.
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| Action: |
People jumping across buildings, climbing walls
and shooting people.
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| Laughs: |
A line here or there.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
A "bug" being put into Neo's belly-button.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
None.
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| Directed By: |
The Wachowski Brothers
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| Produced By: |
Joel Silver
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The Matrix
A Movie Review |
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Neo (Keanu Reeves)
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I can best sum up "The Matrix" in the same words that I
said to Whammy as we were leaving the theater, "That was one
fucked-up movie." She thought it was kinda cool.
Imagine if you will that you aren't reading this in your
real life, that you are only imagining that you are reading
this. Why? Well, because machines have taken over the earth
and have your body in suspended animation, pumping in
nutrients to keep you alive so you can generate electricity
for them from your body chemistry, but keeping you happy by
feeding you thoughts about actually living. It's kinda like
you're dreaming, except you think you're not, that you're
really living the dream. And such goes "The Matrix."
In "The Matrix" the world is like you read above, except
there are a few who have been awoken by an underground group
trying to find the "one" - the person with the brain power
to break into the computer program being fed into the lives
of everyone else. They fly around in a spaceship-like place,
every now and then mentally tapping into the matrix, the
program which is being fed to the population, to try and
fight the machines by breaking the program code. Enter Neo
(Keanu Reeves) who is thought to be the savior by the leader
of the underground, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and is
woken up and brought to real life. God, I find it hard even
to explain what the hell is going on in this movie except
that it is very cool.
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Trinity (Carrie-Ann Moss)
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The idea is cool - that we aren't really living as we know
it, but if you know it you can control your actions in it
(like leaping from building to building, and in the case of
Neo being able to dodge bullets), but you've got to watch
out in the matrix world because there are computer program
drones out to kill you, and if they kill you in the matrix
than the living you dies too.
This movie was just a blast to watch. You've got a
psychotic story premise if you really try to analyze it, but
well-developed enough to help it make some sense, you've got
some really cool effects of people jumping across tall
building, Neo dodging bullets, and Trinity (Carrie-Ann Moss)
as the hot dudette helping Neo find his fate while running
up walls and shooting the bad guys.
The first movie to give me the willies in a long time, I
give "The Matrix" 4 ½ stars out of 5. It was just
fucking cool and gave me an entire new perspective on
déjà vu that I thought I finally figured out
after seeing "Men in Black."
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!! L8R!! |
