# Matrix, The (1999)

### reviewed by
M. Pierce

    The Matrix

    A review by M. Pierce

In a dark hotel room, a women sits in front of a computer. Cops bust through the door, telling her to freeze and put her hands up in the air. Down stairs, a couple of mysterious FBI-type men, later known as Agents, tell the captain of the police force that his men are already dead, that the women has most likely escaped.

How is this possible? As we watch the first spellbinding minutes of The Matrix, we are drawn into a masterfully created work of brilliance, a film so absorbing and exciting, it is nevertheless an instant classic. One of the true great science fiction films ever to unfold on the silver screen. I would rank it right up on the list with Star Trek: First Contact, The X-Files motion picture, and Andrei Tarkovski's Solaris.

I hate to write long, drawn-out reviews, especially of films I really like, so, for The Matrix, all I will say is See This Movie Before It Escapes The Cineplexes! Not only are the special effects truly amazing, the action breathtaking, and the acting wonderful, the plot is a brilliant story, so well thoughtout, so eluded with creativity, it simply is a state of movie magic, "cinematic gold."

    **** (out of ****)

    1999 (c)

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