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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 clich�).
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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