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I dont know what to say at this point of time, but this film was outstanding in 1999, and I am sure it wouldn't have been forgotten even if the 2nd and 3rd film weren't released.

The Matrix really opens your mind and makes you think 'WOW, amazing'. The story line is as famous as the well-known matrix style action. Although many people didn't understand the film they still enjoyed the cast, the clothes and the action, AKA me at first! The entire trilogy was great in my opinion, the two films that followed were not as mind bending as the original Matrix film, but the action and SFX made up for that!

10/10 Trilogy.
Own it all. (The Matrix, The Matrix Revisited, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Animatrix.)

GOOD MOVIE, RENT THIS
What is this movie but a bunch of elves, dwarfs and fairys running around and killing each other over a wedding ring? It's all bad acting from the word go, and the music can't hype up what the story lacks. I have a theory on why people love these movies; they feel that because the directors and actors and writers try so hard to make an "Epic Saga of Biblical Proportions," that they (the movie-goers), must give the film makers positive reviews just for the effort. I am different. I will not give good reviews to a movie just because it's ten billion hours long. Good is good, fairyish is fairyish and my time is too important, as is yours, to be wasted on this midevil drivle. And now I will cast a spell. I call it the "I'm to influenced by movie advertising and special effects to think for myself spell." See, it's already working. Now go out and see the whole trilogy, fairy.

This movie is FUN!
I view movies primarily to be entertained. The Matrix is packed with action and visual effects that had me gasping.

There are four truly outstanding, memorable performances by the actors: Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus is erie and casts just the right tone of a man who has seen it all. Carrie-Anne Moss is so right for the part of Trinity. Hugo Weaving takes evil to a whole new level as the dead-pan Agent Smith. And Gloria Foster as the Oracle steals the scene with that little twinkle and the cookies.

The details of the plot are only as complicated as they need to be to frame the story and allow for the action to take place. Because, in the end, THAT is what drives the movie forward. The viewer is invited along for the ride. And what a Fun House ride it is!!

From the opening sequence where Trinity is trapped by local police, then runs (over rooftops), leaps through air for a flight-long tumble down steps and finally dashes into a phone booth about to be smashed by a huge trash truck, this viewer was left breathless and in awe of the power of this scene. Why is she being chased? What crime has she committed? Who are the guys in the dark glasses and black suits?

After this, the action never really stops. Gradually, we are given answers to the Why, What and Who as Keanu Reeves is recruited into an organization dedicated to giving the earth back to it's human batteries.

Sure, it's an outlandish plot, but I'm looking for entertainment in this movie, not great literature. It's a fun movie and one that I have watched more than once. So it was a good choice to add to our DVD collection.