The Matrix (1999)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 112 | Rotten: 17
An ingenious combination of Hong Kong action, ground-breaking Hollywood FX, and an imaginative vision.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 10
An ingenious combination of Hong Kong action, ground-breaking Hollywood FX, and an imaginative vision.
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What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilemma that faces mild-mannered computer jockey Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix. It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little hacking on the side. It's through this latter activity that Thomas makes the acquaintance of Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who has some interesting news for Mr. Anderson -- none of what's going on
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Cast
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Keanu Reeves
Neo -
Laurence Fishburne
Morpheus -
Carrie-Anne Moss
Trinity -
Hugo Weaving
Agent Smith -
Gloria Foster
The Oracle -
Joe Pantoliano
Cypher -
Marcus Chong
Tank -
Paul Goddard
Agent Brown -
Robert Taylor
Agent Jones -
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Matt Doran
Mouse -
Belinda McClory
Switch -
Anthony Ray Parker
Dozer -
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All Critics (131) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (118) | Rotten (17) | DVD (44)
A must-see among genre fans, especially guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability.
There's not much humor to keep it all life-size, and by the final stretch it's become bloated, mechanical, and tiresome.
Another slice of overlong, high concept hokum.
For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us.
The Matrix soars with its feet in the air -- the rest crash-lands.
An apocalypse of kinetic joy.
Inspired by different sources (including Japanese anime), The Matrix is a new kind of movie, a visionary mixture of technology, philosophy and thrilling action.
It's that balance between blockbuster-style action sequences and in-depth philosophical undertones that I've always admired about The Matrix.
Intense, but many teens will be able to handle it.
Exemplifies the idea that a sufficiently cool outcome justifies all of the tortured narrative it takes to get there.
Other than some caveats, this is an innovative and original science fiction entry...
The film is still fun to watch, especially in high definition, which is all we really expect from it. (10th Anniversary Blu-ray Book Edition)
The original Matrix stands perfectly well on its own, despite the fact that the filmmakers went on with second and third episodes.
Dimension-hopping has never been so exhilarating and breathlessly lyrical as brilliant visuals and bracing Hong Kong action stunts punch through lengthy streams of technobabble.
The surprise sleeper success of 1999, this ingenious science fiction thriller easily surpassed The Phantom Menace.
The paranoid details of the premise are thoroughly worked out; the characters and motives, much less so.
The Matrix is fun, and while it may confuse you first time around, a second viewing is really required to get the full 'entertainment' value out of it.
There is no denying that fact that the Wachowski Brothers have amazing imagination and vision. They direct the film with non-stop style and imbue each scene with enough eye-candy to make you stop noticing the gaping plot holes and lapses in logic.
An inventive science fiction idea that rivals the brilliant thinking behind such movies from last year as Dark City and The Truman Show.
It's incredible.
If you're curious where the next generation of auteurs is coming from, look in the art houses and look in The Matrix.
Audience Reviews for The Matrix
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- Morpheus: What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
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- Agent Smith: I'm going to be honest with you [takes off glasses and ear-piece]. I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink, and every time I do I fear that I have somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive! Isn't it? [violently grabs Morpheus's head] I must get out of here. I must get free, and in this mind is the key, my key!
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- Agent Smith: In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you (dramatic pause) help your landlady carry out her garbage.
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- Trinity: Dodge this.
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- Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this.
- Neo: I know, that's why it's going to work.
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- Neo: I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
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