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The Matrix

Believe the unbelievable.

1999 · 2h 16m · R Action, Science Fiction
Directed by Lilly Wachowski , Lana Wachowski

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Overview

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Extremely violent, extremely preposterous, extremely entertaining, The Matrix succeeds at two extremely difficult tasks: as a vast, exciting virtual-reality movie and as a defibrillator for Keanu Reeves' big screen career.

Keith Simanton, Seattle Times
Fresh

The movie is nonsense, but it does achieve a brazenly chic high style -- black-on-black, airborne, spasmodic.

David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh

The Wachowskis and cinematographer Bill Pope take advantage of currently available technical trickery to create visually distinct levels of reality while setting high-speed cameras in motion to make the action sequences particularly dynamic and fluid.

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

Where other films are done in by the freedom offered by computer effects, The Matrix integrates them beautifully.

Keith Phipps, AV Club
Fresh

A must-see among genre fans, especially guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability.

Todd McCarthy, Variety

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