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The matrixAction / Sci-Fi (US) 1999 Rated R 135 Minutes CastKeanu Reeves Thomas "Neo" AndersonLaurence Fishburne MorpheusCarrie-Anne Moss TrinityJoe Pantoliano vigorHugo Weaving Agent Smith Produced by Bruce Berman, Dan Cracchiolo, Andrew Mason, Barrie M. Osborne, Joel Silver, Erwin Stoff, Andy Wachowski and Larry WachowskiDirected and directed by Andy and Larry WachowskiKeanu Reeves as a martial-arts master and savior of the earth? Laurence Fishburne as his mentor? The founding as we know it does non even exist? Surely, you cant be serious.Welcome to the fascinating and confusing world of "The Matrix."In this sci-fi thriller, Reeves stars as Neo, a computer coder by day and cyber-hacker by night.Out of nowhere, he is contacted by a group of super hackers who tell him that his life is in danger and his only take to is to trust them. The groups leader, a quiet but confident man known as Morpheus (Fishburne) tells Neo that he is the one chosen to save the world a nd that the "Matrix is the wool that has pulled over your eyes - that you are a slave."Neo is the worlds only hope. In a nutshell, Morpheus explains that computers developed on their own and won a relentless war against man. So the computers made a program to put all of the slaves back in the past, which is our present day. He tells Neo that he can chose all to live now or to see what the world is truly like. Neo chooses the latter, and the trip down the rabbit hole begins as does the fight for the salvation of humanity. except the battle must be fought out in The Matrix, not the real world, where computer sentinels are seemingly invincible and where the laws of physics can not only be bent, they can be tossed right out the window. With that kind of freedom, characters can run up the sides of walls, leap incredible distances, dodge bullets, and with the help of Hong Kong stunt specialist Yuen Wo Ping, pull off some of the most impressive kung fu fight sequences ever filmed .Slow-motion film sequences, some shot at the rate of 12,000 frames per second, allow the filmmakers to rig the on-screen action much like in the Gap commercials where the dancers are frozen and the camera angle shifts around them. Andrew Mason lends the film the same look he gave Dark City, only this time the good guys wear black and everyone else is either a sentinel or prime fodder for target practice.