Get this: what if all we know as reality was, in fact, virtual reality? Reality itself is a ravaged dystopia run by technocrat Artificial Intelligence where humankind vegetates in billions of gloop-filled tanks - mere battery packs for the machineworld - being fed this late '90s VR (known as The Matrix - you with us here?) through an ugly great cable stuck in the back of our heads. And what if there was a group of quasi-spiritual rebels infiltrating The Matrix with the sole purpose of crashing the ruddy great mainframe and rescuing humans from their unknown purgatory? And, hey, what if Keanu Re... read the rest.
The Matrix
(1999)
Overview
Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo, who finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker, who reveals the shocking truth about our reality.
Tagline
Welcome to the Real World.
Crew
Directors: | Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski |
Writers: | Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski |
Cast
Keanu Reeves
Laurence Fishburne
Carrie-Anne Moss
Hugo Weaving |
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Production Companies
Village Roadshow Pictures, Groucho II Film Partnership, Silver Pictures, Warner Bros.