The Matrix (1999)
We’ll wrap up this list with the king of metaverse films, 1999’s The Matrix. You know what this is about: Neo (Keanu Reeves) is a hacker who discovers that the entire world is actually a simulation run to distract the human captives of a world-spanning supercomputer, which uses human bodies as bio-batteries or something (this is never really explained). He joins a resistance movement of Matrix escapees who live in the real world, which is revealed to be a ravaged hell created by geoengineering gone wrong. Neo finds himself to be a chosen one with fantastical superpowers within the Matrix, leading to a lot of kung-fu fight scenes and slow-motion gun battles as he’s chased down by nefarious programs called Agents that enforce human subservience to the Matrix’s will.
Anyhow, this is Facebook’s metaverse with extra steps.
