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In anticipation of heading out to the theater to see The Matrix Reloaded, I pulled The Matrix off my DVD shelf and reloaded it into the DVD player. And even after four years of watching and rewatching it, I’m still in awe of this movie.
The Matrix blew audiences away when it came out back in 1999. No one had seen action or effects quite like this before -- and its ground-breaking techniques have been used over and over again ever since (so much so that they’ve almost become cliché).
But The Matrix is more than just eye candy. It’s got a storyline that, while often confusing and hard to follow the first time around, has viewers looking at the world around them a bit differently. Keanu Reeves stars as Thomas Anderson -- mild-mannered suit-wearing software developer by day, hard-core law-breaking hacker (known as “Neo”) by night. His world is turned upside-down when he’s contacted by a man named Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who shows Neo that it isn’t 1999 after all. It’s somewhere around the year 2100 -- and the world that Neo sees is nothing more than a computer program known as the Matrix. Morpheus is convinced that Neo is “The One” who will finally defeat the machines that have taken over humanity’s minds and bodies and turned human beings into little more than batteries, so he persuades Neo to join his band of rebels in their battle.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who was skeptical of this movie at first. I mean, really -- Keanu Reeves? The guy from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? In a serious action role? Puh-lease! And, well, he still wouldn’t be my first choice for the role -- he’s a little too California-surfer to be believable as a computer genius. But he looks the part, and I suppose that’s good enough.
The rest of the cast, however, is excellent. The story is frighteningly real. And the effects are outstanding. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.
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