The Matrix
March 31, 1999 in theaters
Hacker Thomas Anderson discovers that the reality he lives in is a simulation — the Matrix — designed to keep humanity pacified while machines harvest their energy. Recruited by the resistance, he becomes Neo, a figure who may be able to end the war between humans and machines.
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"There is no spoon."
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Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss all trained for four months in martial arts before shooting began.
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One of the rare films that genuinely changed how science fiction was imagined on screen. The Wachowskis arrived with a vision so fully realized -- philosophically dense, visually unprecedented, and physically electrifying -- that its influence became inescapable almost immediately. Keanu Reeves' calm, watchful performance anchors a film that could easily have collapsed under its own ambition. Nothing before it looked quite like it, and almost everything after it tried to.
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