The Matrix 1999
- Director: Lana and Lilly Wachowski
- Based on book: no.
- Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Keanu Reeves – John Wick, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,
The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lake House, A Scanner Darkly, The Matrix
Trilogy, Sweet November, The Gift, Feeling Minnesota, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed,
Much Ado about Nothing, My Own Private Idaho, Thumbsucker, Bill and Ted’s
Excellent Adventure
- Carrie-Ann Moss – Humans, Matrix 2 and 3, Snow Cake, Chocolat
- Laurence Fishburne
– Man of Steel, Contagion, Bobby, Akeelah
and the Bee, Mystic River, Matrix 2 and 3, Othello, What’s Love Got to Do with
It, Boyz n the Hood, Class Action, The Colour Purple, Rumble Fish, Apocalypse
Now
- Hugo Weaving – Mortal Engines, Strangerland, The Hobbit etc, Cloud Atlas, V for Vendetta, Little Fish, Lord of the Rings etc, Matrix etc, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
- Why? Because
- Seen: Two or three times before. Now 6 December 2019
Have you ever figured out what this film
is about? I haven’t. Virtual reality or computers and the Matrix is some kind
of hidden computer network that steers over our lives.
Or something.
Never mind.
Reeves (so young!), Moss, Fishburne,
Weaving (can he possibly) be the same guy as in Priscilla?) are
so cool, and it’s exciting and pretty to look at. And it seems to be profound.
Or something.
It was super cutting edge when it came
out in 1999. Is it hopelessly old-fashioned now (dial phones? Phone booths?)
Who knows? Who cares?
I don’t like Messiah stories or
conspiracy stories or romantic love endings but who cares?
Very probably I should not like this film
at all. It’s pretentious, politically iffy and generally unlikely. Kung Fu
fistfights are so booooooooring! And all that shooting? C’mon!
But who cares? It’s stylish. It’s fun. I
mean those boots. They’re worth half a * all by themselves.
3
½ * of 5 (H says 1 ½ but 4* for absurdity)
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