WOW! Big superstars! AMAZING special effects! Guns! Romance! WHAT a great film! A really original plot too!

I am of course, lying.

The Matrix really wasn't all that great. The special effects, while being pretty good as they were, were: A) first seen in Gap adverts B) just there for the sake of it, and they really added nothing.

As for the plot, I could see about three films from which it was seemingly stolen, the far superior Dark City on particular.

The pathetic attempt at romance was disastrously tacked on at the end, for no reason, and Reeves's performance wasn't really that great.

Just another big bad Hollywood nothing. Shame.