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Film · 1999 · Science fiction
The Matrix
Directed by The Wachowskis
1999
★ 8.9 editorial score
Action filmmaking divides neatly into before and after this one: the Wachowskis fused Hong Kong wire work with a philosophy seminar's premise and everyone spent five years copying it.
“With enough visual bravado to sustain a steady element of surprise "'The Matrix' makes particular virtues out of eerily inhuman lighting 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.”
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1999Depicts The future
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