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The Matrix

1999

Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski ...

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano ...

7.9

196,896

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action. Thriller In the near future, Computer hacker Neo is contacted by underground freedom fighters who explain that reality as he understands it is actually a complex computer simulation called the Matrix. Created by a malevolent Artificial Intelligence, the Matrix hides the truth from humanity, allowing them to live a convincing, simulated life in 1999 while machines grow and harvest people to use as an ongoing energy source. The leader of the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Ultra-cool visuals that truly deliver something new to the sci-fi action lexicon will make this time-jumping thriller a must-see among genre fans"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Matrix' recycles the premises of 'Dark City' and 'Strange Days,' turns up the heat and the volume, and borrows the gravity-defying choreography of Hong Kong action movies. It's fun, but it could have been more (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology"	POS
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"With its mix of Lewis Carroll and William Gibson; Japanese anime and Chinese chopsocky; mythological allusions, and machine-made illusion, ['The Matrix'] offers a couple of hours of escapist fun"	POS
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"It's astonishing that so much money, talent, technical expertise and visual imagination can be put in the service of something so stupid"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"In the clearest sense of the term 'The Matrix' is a classic, not only a great movie, but a film that simultaneously redefined its own medium. Forever (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Wachowskis stylishly envision the ultimate in cyberescapism (...) The martial arts dynamics are phenomenal"	POS
United Kingdom	Stuart Heritage The Guardian	"'The Matrix' is a teenage boy's dream. There's action, fighting, cutting-edge special effects, murderous robots, evil authority figures..."	POS
United States	David Hunter The Hollywood Reporter	"Kudos to the writing and directing team of Larry and Andy Wachowski (...) for fashioning a brain-twisting, eye-popping thriller"	POS
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"[An] allegorical science fiction masterpiece (...) The action sequences stun (...) 'The Matrix' is almost untenably cool, but beneath the sheen there's substance (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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