The Matrix Critic Reviews
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The Wachowskis do it so playfully well, keeping The Matrix's potentially confusing plot intelligible, intelligent, and suspenseful, that it doesn't matter.Read the full review
A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.Read the full review
Kinetic, atmospheric, visually stunning, and mind-bending.Read the full review
There's a kind of liberating, almost transforming energy in this film; it lights you up and sends you out all giddy with silliness.Read the full review
One of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.Read the full review
One big, fat, honking comic book of a sci-fi-martial-arts adventure flick.Read the full review
A visually dazzling cyberadventure, full of kinetic excitement, but it retreats to formula just when it's getting interesting.Read the full review
The martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point.Read the full review
An eye-popping but incoherent extravaganza of morphing and superhuman martial arts.Read the full review
Even if a lot of adults have problems following this picture 100%, look for computer-savvy teen-agers to guarantee this sometimes original but too often derivative time-killer a shelf life.Read the full review
