![]() "Jacking in" like this was a concept in "Strange Days" and has also been suggested in novels by William Gibson ("Idoru") and others. (You can still get killed, though: "The body cannot live without the mind"). The movie's battles take place in Virtual Reality the heroes' minds are plugged into the combat. Arrayed against them are the Agents, who look like Blues Brothers. Morpheus believes Neo is the Messianic "One" who can lead this rebellion, which requires mind power as much as physical strength. It's actually a form of Virtual Reality, designed to lull us into lives of blind obedience to the "system." We obediently go to our crummy jobs every day, little realizing, as Morpheus tells Neo, that "Matrix is the wool that has been pulled over your eyes-that you are a slave." The rebels want to crack the framework that holds the Matrix in place, and free mankind. They've made a fundamental discovery about the world: It doesn't exist. He's recruited by a cell of cyber-rebels, led by the profound Morpheus ( Laurence Fishburne) and the leather-clad warrior Trinity ( Carrie-Anne Moss). The plot involves Neo ( Keanu Reeves), a mild-mannered software author by day, a feared hacker by night. Here, with a big budget and veteran action producer Joel Silver, they've played it safer there's nothing wrong with going for the Friday night action market, but you can aim higher and still do business. The directors are Larry and Andy Wachowski, who know how to make movies (their first film, " Bound," made my 10 best list in 1996). "The Matrix" recycles the premises of " Dark City" and " Strange Days," turns up the heat and the volume, and borrows the gravity-defying choreography of Hong Kong action movies. ![]() Too bad, because the set-up is intriguing.
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