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Storyline

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo, who finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker, who reveals the shocking truth about our reality.

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The Martix is a great example of a movie that will live for ever or a very log time. The story and concept are out of this world. Keanu Reeves plays his role with utter brilliance, the cast was very well put together and the graphics are still to this day amazing. All in all one of the best movies of all time.
Get this: what if all we know as reality was, in fact, virtual reality? Reality itself is a ravaged dystopia run by technocrat Artificial Intelligence where humankind vegetates in billions of gloop-filled tanks - mere battery packs for the machineworld - being fed this late '90s VR (known as The Matrix - you with us here?) through an ugly great cable stuck in the back of our heads. And what if there was a group of quasi-spiritual rebels infiltrating The Matrix with the sole purpose of crashing the ruddy great mainframe and rescuing humans from their unknown purgatory? And, hey, what if Keanu Reeves was their Messiah?What sounds like some web freak's wet dream is, in fact, a dazzlingly nifty slice of sci-fi cool. The Wachowski Brothers (Andy and Larry - last seen dabbling in kinky lesbian noir with the excellent Bound) pulling off something like a million masterstrokes all at once. Taking the imprimatur of the video game, they meld the grungy noir of Blade Runner, the hyperkinetic energies of chopsocky, John Woo hardware and grandiose spiritual overtones into William Gibson's cyberpunk ethos to produce a new aesthetic for the millennium powered to the thudding beat of techno. And it is just incredible fun. The key is the technique of "flo-mo", a process born from Japanese animation, whereby an object in motion is seemingly frozen while the camera miraculously spins around it as if time and gravity are on hold. It grants the action (including some killer kung fu which Reeves and crew spent months perfecting) liberty to take on surreal visual highs. Superhuman feats permissible, of course, in the context of VR as the rebels download Herculean "talents" to fuel their subterfuge. Meanwhile, the audience can only gawp longingly, with its jaws thunking to the cinema floor in unison, as the heroes wrapped in skintight leather, sleek shades and designer cheekbones, spin up walls, leap from high rises and slip through streams of bullets in silken slo-mo. Tron this ain't.Immediately reigniting the moribund cyberpunk genre (the kids can't get enough Stateside), this has thrust Reeves from his imploding career back to Speed highs (and laying to rest the hideous ghost of Johnny Mnemonic) and stolen much more of Star Wars' thunder than was thought humanly possible. For all its loony plot, The Matrix is fabulous.Sure, the expert Fishburne is depended upon to expound the lion's share of the script as seer-like rebel leader Morpheus. Reeves, stunning in his newcast slenderness, as Thomas "Neo" Anderson, the hacker turned hope for all mankind (care of some ill-defined mystical calling) is asked little more than perpetual befuddlement. Like Speed, though, this movie plays on his iconic looks rather than his oak-like emoting. There's a major find, too, in the irresistible Carrie-Anne Moss, a majestically wrought combination of steely no-shit intelligence and rock-chick vivaciousness as fellow tripper Trinity. And Weaving, cast against type, neutralises his Aussie tones to a freaky deadpan, the head of the MiB-styled defence system set against the Goth invaders.And sure, three minutes of post-movie deliberation and all this state-of-the-art cyberdevilry is reduced to the purest gobbledygook. That, though, is not the point. The Matrix is about pure experience; it's been many a moon since the Empire crew have spilled out of a cinema literally buzzing with the sensation of a movie, babbling frenetically with the sheer excitement of discovery.From head to tail, the deliciously inventive Wachowskis (watch them skyrocket) have delivered the syntax for a new kind of movie: technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool, the usher will have to drag you kicking and screaming back into reality. You can bet your bottom dollar George never saw this phantom menace coming.Verdict - The deliciously inventive Wachowskis have delivered the syntax for a new kind of movie: technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool.5/5- Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine

Movie details The Matrix

Release : 1999-03-30
Genre : Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Runtime : 136 minutes
Company : Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

	Laurence Fishburne	as	Morpheus
	Carrie-Anne Moss	as	Trinity
	Hugo Weaving	as	Agent Smith
	Gloria Foster	as	Oracle
	Joe Pantoliano	as	Cypher
	Marcus Chong	as	Tank
	Julian Arahanga	as	Apoc
	Matt Doran	as	Mouse
	Belinda McClory	as	Switch
	Anthony Ray Parker	as	Dozer
	Paul Goddard	as	Agent Brown
	David Aston	as	Rhineheart
	Marc Aden	as	Choi
	Keanu Reeves	as	Neo
	Robert Taylor	as	Agent Jones
	Ada Nicodemou	as	White Rabbit Girl
	Denni Gordon	as	Priestess
	Rowan Witt	as	Spoon Boy
	Bill Young	as	Lieutenant
	Eleanor Witt	as	Potential
	Tamara Brown	as	Potential
	Janaya Pender	as	Potential
	Adryn White	as	Potential
	Natalie Tjen	as	Potential
	David O'Connor	as	FedEx Man
	Jeremy Ball	as	Businessman
	Fiona Johnson	as	Woman in Red
	Harry Lawrence	as	Old Man
	Steve Dodd	as	Blind Man
	Luke Quinton	as	Security Guard
	Lawrence Woodward	as	Guard
	Michael Butcher	as	Cop Who Captures Neo
	Bernard Ledger	as	Big Cop
	Robert Simper	as	Cop
	Chris Pattinson	as	Cop
	Nigel Harbach	as	Parking Cop
	Rana Morrison	as	Shaylae - Woman in Office (uncredited)