"With enough visual bravado to sustain a steady element of surprise (even when the film's most important Oracle turns out to be a grandmotherly type who bakes cookies and has magnets on her refrigerator), The Matrix makes particular virtues out of eerily inhuman lighting visual effects, lightning-fast virtual scene changes (as when Neo wishes for guns and thousands of them suddenly appear) and the martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point. As supervised by Yuen Wo Ping, these airborne sequences bring Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind."
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Australian filmsThe Matrix (franchise)Films about artificial intelligenceScreenplays by The WachowskisFilms directed by The Wachowskis
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Janet Maslin, "FILM REVIEW; The Reality Is All Virtual, And Densely Complicated", The New Yorker, (March 31, 1999)
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The Matrix (film)
The Matrix is a 1999 film about a computer hacker who learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it. It was followed by 2003 sequel The Matrix Reloaded.
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