1999 · sci-fi · action
The Matrix
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski2h 16m1999
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.
Our read: The Matrix (1999) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
The Matrix counts for a challenge
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How The Matrix feels to watch.
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“You want to question reality through slick action and mind bending ideas.”
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