Re:The Matrix...shrug (Score 1)

I agree on your analysis of The Matrix's themes & predictability. However, I found it fabulous from the point of view of implementation and how Morphius et al. cracked it mobile telephones, jacking in, encoded simulation, etc. (though, for some of it, you couldn't look too closely). I also liked it visually, including effects (martial arts, bullet time, rain-of-.50-shells). I saw it a second time months later (in the theater) & it held up.

The real question for me is what will happen in the sequel especially now that Neo is (essentially) a matrix god. In the science fiction (and action) genre I can only think of Terminator II that successfull expanded on the themes of the original, while simultaneously going over the top on action & effects.

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