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The ground substanceAction / Sci-Fi (US) 1999 Rated R 135 Minutes CastKeanu Reeves Thomas "neo" AndersonLaurence Fishburne MorpheusCarrie-Anne Moss TrinityJoe Pantoliano CypherHugo Weaving Agent Smith Produced by Bruce Berman, Dan Cracchiolo, Andrew Mason, Barrie M. Osborne, Joel Silver, Erwin St withdraw, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski say and directed by Andy and Larry WachowskiKeanu Reeves as a martial-arts master and savior of the body politic? Laurence Fishburne as his mentor? The world as we know it does not level exist? Surely, you firet be serious.Welcome to the fascinating and confusing world of "The Matrix."In this sci-fi thriller, Reeves stars as modern, a computer programmer by day and cyber-hacker by night.Out of nowhere, he is contacted by a group of super hackers who ordinate him that his life is in danger and his only hope is to trust them. The groups leader, a quiet but confident man known as Morpheus (Fishburne) tells Neo that he is the on e chosen to save the world and that the "Matrix is the fleece that has pulled over your eyes - that you are a slave."Neo is the worlds only hope. In a nutshell, Morpheus explains that computers developed on their own and won a reprehensible war against man. So the computers made a program to put alone of the slaves back in the past, which is our present day. He tells Neo that he can chose either to live now or to see what the world is genuinely like. Neo chooses the latter, and the trip down the rabbit hole begins as does the defend for the salvation of humanity.But the battle must be fought out in The Matrix, not the real world, where computer sentinels are seemingly unconquerable and where the laws of physics can not only be bent, they can be tossed right out the window. With that kind of freedom, characters can run up the sides of walls, skip incredible distances, dodge bullets, and with the help of Hong Kong stunt specialist Yuen Wo Ping, pull off well-nigh of th e most impressive kung fu fight sequences ever filmed.Slow-motion film sequences, some shot at the rate of 12,000 frames per second, allow the filmmakers to manipulate the on-screen action oft like in the Gap commercials where the dancers are frozen and the camera wobble shifts around them. Andrew Mason lends the film the same look he gave bootleg City, only this time the good guys wear black and everyone else is either a sentinel or prime fodder for target practice.