I'm afraid I fell for the hype on this one. Proof yet again that a film cannot survive on special effects and flashy direction alone The Matrix died within an hour. The scenes that relied on neither of these (ie the scenes where the characters had to TALK to each other) were very boring and exposed the film's complete lack of emotional core. The characters are shallow and artificial and you don't care what happens to any of them. Reeves' acting is as bad as ever. It clearly has pretensions to being an 'intelligent' movie - lots of scientific and philosophical references in the script but it's just name dropping (or idea dropping). A miserable experience.