The script, written by the Wachowski brothers is intelligent but carefully not geeky. But what makes The Matrix several cuts above the rest of the films in its genre is that there are simply no loopholes. Not only did we sit in awe as Neo evaded those bullets in limbo-rock fashion, we salivated. Not only did we want to cheer on the heroes to victory, we wanted them to bludgeon the opposition. With The Matrix, both elements are perfectly en sync. (Or nobody simply cared about anything.) There a few, though, which aroused interest and intellect but nobody 'ooh'-ed or 'aah'-ed at the special effects. There have been a lot of visually stunning works but nobody cared about the hero. Hollywood has had some problems combining form and matter in the sci-fi genre. The story of a reluctant Christ-like protagonist set against a baroque, MTV backdrop, The Matrix is the definitive hybrid of technical wizardry and contextual excellence that should be the benchmark for all sci-fi films to come.
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