The Matrix (1999)
Was The Matrix an allegory for transgender identity? A commentary about the internet? Or a sly way for the Illuminati to tell us we are all living in a computer simulation? Honestly, I’m game for all three. It’s just awesome watching Keanu fire a giant gun out of a helicopter or practice his kung fu moves on Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith—a sneering computer program who wants to stop the human insurgency at any cost. Any way you slice it, it’s a fun watch and one of the most influential films to come out of the 1990s.
