Two movies about becoming powerful, becoming a symbol, and fighting against the reality of our world — it's The Matrix vs Catwoman.
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Every episode of Tasteless, I take a critically acclaimed film and compare it to one that shares the same themes but didn't get the attention it deserves, then explain why that second movie is my pick. This week: two movies about becoming powerful, becoming a symbol, and fighting against the reality of our world. It's The Matrix versus Catwoman.
The Matrix
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth — the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
The Matrix came out in 1999, has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it's number 16 on the IMDB Top 250. It won four Oscars — all four it was nominated for: Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects. This is the largest clean sweep of nominated categories for a film that was also not nominated for Best Picture. Got all these technical recognitions, but the acting and the directing did not.
This movie was revolutionary in a lot of ways, and I think that's why it was cemented as an important film. Yes, it's also a fun movie, it has interesting philosophical aspects, but it really was the spectacular action and the groundbreaking special effects that rocketed it to the forefront of pop culture.
I had a demo version of The Matrix video game that I played a million times on my Xbox without ever seeing the movie. The demo had probably one level. I got it free from Xbox Magazine and I just kept playing that one level over and over doing bullet time stuff as Neo. That was what I knew about The Matrix. Then I finally watched it and I liked it. And when I rewatched it, I was still impressed. The technology is cool. The special effects hold up because they really created their own genre with this bullet time thing — it holds up because no one's doing it better. They invented this cool thing.
Keanu Reeves is Neo — a role he could have lost to Will Smith, who decided not to do it. But it's a perfect Keanu Reeves role and he's part of the reason it succeeded. He threw himself into this movie completely, doing all of the reading the Wachowskis told him to do. The actors in the movie were required to be able to understand and explain the Matrix. They had to read Simulacra and Simulation. Keanu also read Out of Control and Evolutionary Psychology before he even opened the script, so he was able to explain the philosophical nuances in the movie. They wanted the actors to have that understanding.
There is something I love about Keanu. Is he always the best actor? I just watched Johnny Mnemonic and I enjoyed it, but his delivery is a little wooden — I finally saw what people say about him. But I find him so charming. I think of him saving Sandra Bullock from a speeding bus, exchanging letters with Sandra Bullock through a magic mailbox. He's also just a good guy. Over the course of the Matrix trilogy, he gave crew members millions of dollars. He gave the stunt team Harley-Davidsons. He constantly acknowledges the hard work that the people do who aren't on screen. He's well known for his kindness, and that's the kind of star I want.
I like that he's found the right niche in the John Wick movies. No one can deny his action prowess and he can be intimidating. You don't need to give him a bunch of monologues to deliver. He's like Arnold Schwarzenegger — if you play to his strengths, write the role for him, you could have an incredible project that will live on forever. Because he is good.
But let's forget Keanu for a second. Let's talk about the person who kicks this movie off: Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity. The first main character we see as she escapes bad guys and does a bullet time kick thing — that I knew best from the film Shrek when it parodied it. She is super cool. There's a scene where they're on this spaceship and you just see her in the background with a welding mask, and she pulls the welding mask off, and I was just immediately hit by that feeling of — that's a star. She has it. She's just cool.
I'm sure it's so annoying for her, but I find it a little bit funny that she's found it impossible to go out into the world while wearing sunglasses because she gets instantly recognized. If she's not wearing them, so many fewer people come up to her, but when she wears sunglasses, everyone's like, oh my God. She can play so tough that it's all the more powerful when she's vulnerable. Even though I felt Trinity and Neo were a little forced as a couple — why is she in love with him? I guess from the stalking — her admission that she's in love with him was an important moment in the film and an emotional anchor in a world where nothing feels real.
Their intrepid leader is Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne — a man I know and love as Cowboy Curtis in Pee-wee's Playhouse. Cowboy Curtis was a hunk. The strength in Morpheus is that he is a leader who doesn't need power. He wants to help free people. He looks over the crew on his ship, the Nebuchadnezzar, but he's seeking out Neo, the person prophesied to end things with the machines. He has no ego about that person not being him.
Agent Smith is our bad guy, played by Hugo Weaving. He's a code in the machine, a security program in the Matrix to wipe them out. He emulated a 1950s news reader and developed a neutral accent — he wanted Smith to sound neither robotic nor human. But I don't like his voice. I think his delivery is so weird. It was just the wrong side of neutral to where there was something off about it. Maybe it was supposed to be off. I think I wanted more of a Robert Patrick in Terminator 2 kind of mean machine rather than whatever this was. Obviously Agent Smith is an iconic villain. I just — when he actually talked, it took me out of it.
Cypher, played by Joe Pantoliano, betrays the crew — partially because Carrie-Anne Moss won't have sex with him. The ultimate red pill guy: he wants things given to him. And it's not this movie's fault that the red pill has become an awful thing on the internet. In the movie, taking the red pill is revealing the truth of the world. Morpheus says, you take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Keanu takes the red pill and he swallows it all cool. It's not possible to swallow a pill cool, but he tries. On the internet, the red pill has become part of a men's rights movement where men say they've uncovered the truth of the world — that women are running things and men are being taken advantage of. It's this gross, harmful group. And it's not this movie's fault, because in its quest for truth, it doesn't set up the unhealthy examples that Fight Club did. But we do see in Cypher this guy who didn't get the woman he wants and so kills everyone.
Another supporting character who's interesting is Switch, played by Belinda McClory. When she auditioned, she was only auditioning for half the role, because the character was originally planned to be played by androgynous actors — in the real world played by a male actor, and in the Matrix represented by a female actor, hence the name Switch. Warner Brothers refined the idea and McClory ended up getting a single female role in both environments.
It's interesting because the Wachowskis have shared that they are transgender. When this movie was made and written, they were living life as men, and now they are living life as women. So it's interesting that there was this character that Warner Brothers just shuffled to the side. It's unfortunate.
Obviously this movie is layered with a lot of thinking. The Wachowskis put their hearts and souls into it with research across philosophies, practices, religion. It's a really well-crafted movie. I didn't watch it at quite the right time for it to become a pillar in my love of film. But I do appreciate it for what it brought us — all the imitators, all the references. If you haven't seen it, I mean, I don't know what you're doing. But now we're going to talk about another movie that makes you think.
Catwoman
A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.
This movie came out in 2004. It has a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's in the bottom-rated movies, number 42. I was shocked to realize that I haven't done any of the bottom 50, although I've done several from the top 100. This is my first bottom 50. Guess what? Critics don't know what they're talking about.
After all of the cheetah criticism from Wonder Woman 1984, I thought we should visit another CGI cat woman. And Cats, by the way, is number 25 on the worst movies. People do not like digital cats. I don't know why. I do. I like all kinds of cats.
Halle Berry plays Patience Phillips, the woman who becomes Catwoman, and she's a delight. I love her. I love The Call, Perfect Stranger, Kidnap, the live-action Flintstones. I love her as Storm in the X-Men movies. I love that she accepted her Razzie in person for this film when she won for Worst Actress.
Halle Berry became one of only six actors in history — only five at the time — to possess both an Oscar and a Razzie after her win for her infamous performance in this movie. She also became the first to accept their Razzie in person, walking out on stage proudly, holding both Oscar and Razzie aloft. First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie. Of course, Sandra Bullock later went on to also accept her Razzie for All About Steve. And both of these women hold special places in my heart.
Have I seen Monster's Ball, which Halle won her Oscar for? No. But I love her. She was in a great movie called Race the Sun where her and Jim Belushi help kids including Eliza Dushku make a solar-powered car to race around Hawaii. Great movie.
I think this Catwoman has a different energy than prior Catwomen, and that's okay. Just like we have fun Batman and dark Batman. There's a vulnerability in Halle Berry's Catwoman, in her playful nature, because it's a persona she's just trying on. She fights it. She wonders, why did I say those things to my boss? It's like I didn't have control over myself. She doesn't lean into it the way that Michelle Pfeiffer does. I love that.
She works for this beauty company, Hedare Beauty, and she overhears that one of the new products is dangerous. So bad guys want to kill her — they basically shove her down a pipe and she dies. She is brought back to life by a cat screaming in her face, breathing in her face. And the only way my cat is going to wake me up is if she screams by mistake. A cat breathing life into me is my dream. I would love for this to happen to me.
Then she is part cat, and there are nice touches — like that she sleeps better as a cat. She's finally rested. But there are tough touches, like when she rubs the catnip all on herself. Look, that's embarrassing. That's tough. She goes to a bar and orders a White Russian — no ice, hold the vodka, hold the Kahlua. The bartender's like, okay, here's a cup of cream. And she's like, mmm. She's trying to figure out what's wrong with her. She's on Google, Googling "cats, period, women, cats in history."
Forty-three cats were trained for the film. Halle Berry adopted one of them afterwards — an orange and white youngster named Plato. Apparently Halle was not a cat person when she was initially cast; she had two dogs. But she grew attached. That's what happens. That's how you get a cat. You meet one and then it's your cat.
Alex Borstein plays her friend and is the comedic relief. She's a joy. I love Alex Borstein. She wants Patience to get out and bone hot cop Benjamin Bratt. Alex is of course Lois on Family Guy, she's on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, she was on Mad TV. She's just very funny and this is a great comedic best friend role.
I'm going to spoil Catwoman right now to talk about my favorite part. There's a villain guy, the owner of the beauty company — this guy George — but he's not important. The true villain, the person we should have our eye on, is Sharon Stone.
Yes, from all my favorite things: Basic Instinct, Sliver, Scissors, Ratched, Law and Order: SVU, an amazing episode of Will and Grace. A true renaissance woman.
I could fully understand her deal in this. Her character Laurel is the face of her husband's beauty company. She's a model, she's gorgeous, but she's been deemed too old and shoved to the side for the new young thing. And yeah, okay, she's going to put this product out that's going to melt people's faces off, sure. But it also does — if you don't get your face melted off — make your skin really nice. That's the product Halle hears them talking about: this Beau-Line cream, beauty cream. If you stop using it, your face will disintegrate. If you keep using it — as Sharon says at one point — skin like living marble. I can't even do it. She does the best villain deliveries. It's so good.
At one point Sharon gives Catwoman a burner phone, and she sets a video so that when Sharon calls, this little gif of herself plays on this old Nokia phone. It's such a great, amazing, villainous, self-absorbed touch. I want big, larger-than-life villains. I want puns.
Sharon is such a strong villain that it does take focus from our hero a little bit, but in the same way that Heath Ledger's Joker was the standout of The Dark Knight. At one point Benjamin Bratt comes to her and he's like, I think you actually have done these killings. She stands up, walks right over to him, holds her wrists up and kind of wiggles them and snaps — it's this brilliant small moment. She says, if you have evidence, then how come I'm not in cuffs? And does this little gesture that was just so good.
When Michelle Pfeiffer played Catwoman in Batman Returns, she was iconic. She was the breakout star because she was so in touch with the role. Sharon Stone did the same for me in Catwoman. She got the tone that I wanted the movie to be and she played into it fully. And the fight between her character Laurel and Catwoman is so good because it never treads into catfight territory. It feels strong and it's calculated.
Sharon Stone's stunt double was Zoe Bell, who of course came on my show, came on Strong Female Leads, and is such a delight. She mentioned that falling onto marble in this movie was one of the more painful stunts she's done. She actually received an award for performing the 20-foot fall where Laurel Hedare falls to her death. So watching the fight scene and knowing that it's her is just an extra added level of fun because she is so beyond talented.
Benjamin Bratt plays the love interest — he was also of course Sandra Bullock's love interest in Miss Congeniality. In this movie he's a cop. Yes, okay. He is part of the infamous basketball scene. He and Halle Berry play basketball. There are about 2,000 cuts in 20 seconds. It's a lot to take in. But I get what they were going for. They were going for fun. They were going for goofiness. I get it. But okay, look, it's a lot of cuts.
Ophelia Powers is played by Frances Conroy. She owns the cat Midnight, who is the one that actually comes and breathes life back into Halle — because Midnight had been out on a ledge and Halle had tried to save him. It's possible Midnight was just testing Halle to see if she was worthy of the Catwoman powers. Halle goes to Frances Conroy and is like, something is wrong with me, I'm rubbing my face in catnip. And Frances Conroy is like: Catwomen aren't held back by the rules of society. Follow your desires. This is a blessing and a curse. You'll experience a freedom other women will never know. She tells her, you are Patience and you are also Catwoman. But you spent a lifetime caged and you need to accept all of who you are. Catwoman is this part of herself that has never come out.
Frances Conroy keeps all of these books and pieces of info on previous Catwomen, and we actually see Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman — indicating that we're in the same universe. But of course we have Patience Phillips and not Selina Kyle. It is a totally new myth.
A few more interesting bits. I liked that the opening had a bunch of articles about cats over the opening credits, and one of them said "CAT CULTS" in all caps. I immediately thought about how quickly I would join a cat cult. Missy Peregrym, the star of Stick It, has her first movie role in this — as the model they show the issues with the Beau-Line cream on. You see photos of her but not her in the flesh. And Halle Berry played a character named Miss Sharon Stone in the live-action Flintstones movie. I hope her and Sharon talked about that on set.
Shared Themes
Thomas Anderson, aka Neo — his internet hacker name is Neo, but his real name is Thomas Anderson. Thomas and Patience are relatively powerless in their everyday lives, but they suddenly happen onto abilities that make them more — more confident, more powerful, more everything. They come into their own. But are they even themselves anymore? They represent something to the people around them. They're no longer an individual, but a symbol. Neo and Catwoman.
Tom is a computer programmer by day with an uneventful life. Online he's Neo — that's the space where he gets to be who he wants and where he can explore the aspects of the world that confuse him. He feels like something is wrong. He keeps seeing the term "the Matrix." He just knows that there's more to life. It's like that weird deja vu feeling. He gets into some cyber crimes under his hacker alias, but generally seems pretty disengaged from the world around him. Then suddenly, instead of being Thomas, Neo is the one given full control. He becomes that which he wanted to be, that which he is fated to be — this elusive One, this person meant to bring about revolution.
When Keanu is in the Matrix at the beginning of the film as just Thomas Anderson, his costumes were deliberately shabby and ill-fitting, to suggest his feeling of not quite fitting into the world. He's looking for more, and he gets it.
Patience Phillips is a talented artist working for a boss that doesn't appreciate her. She stays under the radar. Her boisterous friend Alex Borstein tries to get her to experience life, but she stays at home while wishing for more. Then, after she dies and is brought back to life by cat breath, she loses some of her fear. She stands up to her boss. She confronts the people across from her having a loud party. Basically, she lives my dream. If I could turn into a cat lady and go knock down everything in my neighbor's apartment, I would be so pumped.
So now, instead of Tom and Patience, we have Neo and Catwoman — two figures who represent hope to those around them. They represent something. They fight for freedom, freedom of knowledge, for people to know the truth about the world that they live in, the truth about what is controlling them.
Neo finds out he's the fated One that those aware of the Matrix have hoped for — the one who was supposed to lead humans in a war against the machines and gain humanity its freedom. Everyone who has escaped the Matrix has taken on a certain amount of baggage. They understand that the world is fake, that everything is being fed to them as their bodies are used for fuel. The only thing bringing them hope is that the One is out there somewhere. That is all they have. Neo is their Jesus. One guy even calls him that when he shows up.
Catwoman is not a perfect figure by any means. She's not a true hero, but also not a villain. She does want to make sure the world knows the truth about Buhleen. And when her cat side takes over, she stands up to her boss at work — all of her coworkers cheer. She becomes this figure of hope. No one has been waiting for her the way they wait for Neo, but in small ways she works to make people's lives better. They see the news articles about the woman fighting the big corporations, and it shows that the little guy can win against the big guy. She becomes part of the tapestry of Catwoman, part of a legacy.
Both characters want to live authentically, but they're overtaken by the prophecies that have been set for them. Neo is tasked with being the savior of humanity, and Patience as Catwoman finds herself doing things she wouldn't have done before — fighting her neighbors, yelling at her boss. Her behavior becomes riskier. Neo and Catwoman must accept the expectations that come with who they are in order to embrace their powers and use them for the greater good. And so they do. Neo gives up Thomas, just as Catwoman gives up Patience, to roll up their sleeves and do the work that must be done.
Reality is shaped by those in power. Whether it's the robots in The Matrix or the slightly more realistic world of Catwoman, this is true. Reality is shaped by those in power, by an unseen network, for their own gain.
In The Matrix, we see how humans are being used as batteries, placed into a virtual world to keep them complacent. In Catwoman, we see the way corporations and beauty ideals form the world around us.
The Matrix is an entire system built on complacency. It's the world we think we're in. Your dumb job, going to McDonald's, your dog — all part of the Matrix. Your real body is in a goo pod, emaciated, having life sucked out of it. It's all illusion. The world around you has been built specifically to keep you occupied, to make you think nothing is wrong. And if you make the choice to learn the truth — to take the red pill — you will never be able to sink back into the fantasy.
Anyone who isn't ready to learn about the world won't. People can bury their heads in the sand and ignore the glitches, the deja vu. But once you commit, once you know, you can't unknow. When Cypher betrays his team, it's because he misses the freedom of ignorance. He misses not knowing the exact way that the world around him was shaped. He misses not knowing he's a puppet, a battery, a source of life for something other than himself. He wants the illusion of choice back. He wants to be controlled unknowingly, happily. Rather than see exactly what goes into his boring life, he doesn't want to know how the sausage is made.
Even when you know what the world is made up of, when you know the objective truth, what you are told about the world can shape what happens. The Oracle at one point says to Keanu, don't worry about breaking that vase. And he goes, what? What vase? And turns and breaks the vase because he turns to find out what vase he would break. And the Oracle's like, what's really going to bake your noodle — which is a phrase we should talk about more — is would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything? The Oracle both saw and created this event.
In the same way, I don't think it really mattered whether Neo was the One — just that he tried to tap into a greater power to save his friend, that he was willing to sacrifice himself for Morpheus. What you believe is an important part of how you perceive the world.
In Catwoman, Hedare Beauty is one arm of the beauty machine. It's a company that says women need to look a certain way and they will sell them the product to do it. Now, if that's not nefarious enough, Hedare is making a product that will kill its users if they stop buying it — slash even if they keep using it, in Alex Borstein's case, but maybe she got a bad batch.
What we think is attractive changes based on the parameters the media and the world around us set. Just as how things are perceived in the Matrix are controlled by the robots that built the virtual world. Both are equally meaningless whims of those in power.
Different cultures have different beauty standards. Different decades, different centuries have different standards, because there's no objective true beauty. We're conditioned to find certain things beautiful based on what society tells us represents beauty.
When George tears down Halle — he's the owner of the company — he leads with the clothes, with the nails, with the looks, and the work is an afterthought. This is the world they're inhabiting. The world that we are all inhabiting.
When Ben and Halle are in the bowels of the building, you see discarded Sharon Stone posters because she has been replaced. And Catwoman doesn't even defeat Sharon. Sharon sees herself after Catwoman screws up her face and lets herself fall to her death. She thinks her life is no longer worth living because of what she's been told, because of the importance society has placed on beauty.
You get a better idea of the harmfulness of this industry, of the way women are treated, when Benjamin Bratt confronts Sharon Stone. He says, don't be stupid, you don't want to kill a cop. And she says, I'm a woman. I'm used to doing all kinds of things I don't want to do. And when Halle comes in to save Benjamin Bratt, Sharon says, you wanted to save him, honey — save yourself.
Ophelia Powers talks to Patience about how being a Catwoman allows her certain freedoms to work outside the bounds of society. Sharon and Halle cannot be free within the confines of this industry. They're forced to act in a certain way to be accepted. They're seen in a certain way. That's why Catwoman can't be a pure hero. She can't be a good guy like Superman. She has to have some edge. She has to do some things that are inappropriate, because she is working within the confines of a system that doesn't respect her.
What Catwoman Does Better
Here are a few things I really think Catwoman did right that I was a little disappointed with The Matrix for.
The Matrix, for all its questions about the world, felt awfully black and white in who is good and who is bad. The good guys are those trying to break down the system, the bad guys are those trying to keep the system in place. But I think there's a cruelty in exposing our characters to the horrors of this world. I would rather live in the machine, like Cypher.
In Catwoman, yeah, there's a selfishness to her actions and we see that, but we also see the good she does. She's not painted as an unflinching hero, but instead as someone who is conflicted. After doing her first crime, she leaves cupcakes. She returns the jewels. She steals jewels, she returns them, she leaves cupcakes saying sorry — because she feels bad.
In The Matrix, we have good guys and bad guys. The movie roots for those who take the red pill, those who question the world around them and want the truth. The one person who wishes he didn't know what he knows, Cypher, is the bad guy. Yeah, okay, he kills his teammates — that's horrific. But I felt the movie didn't have a lot of sympathy for him prior to that, despite the fact that in an interview when the film was first released, the Wachowskis revealed that they would both take the blue pill when given Neo's choice. That's what Cypher wishes he did. But he's relegated to bad guy, and then there's the whole wanting-to-have-sex-with-Trinity-and-being-rejected thing just to make him worse.
Cypher's basic motivation — to go back to not knowing what he knows — was what I aligned with while watching. And of course Agent Smith is wholly evil. The robots are wholly evil. But we're not given any context for the war that happened, other than the fact that humans cut off solar energy so the robots decided to use human energy instead. That's why I always say thank you to my Alexa. We're out here trying to make smarter and smarter robots but we're treating them like garbage. It's a recipe for disaster. I just don't think humans are fully innocent in this.
In Catwoman, Halle's no saint. And Sharon Stone isn't fully wrong in her motives. The only true bad guy is the CEO of the company. He's a jerk. We see the war being waged within Halle as her Catwoman side comes out and says things she would never dream, and then Patience has to contend with the fallout. She's so conflicted. Her handwriting is shown to be that of two different people — one when she's Patience, one when she's Catwoman — and she tries to bring the two sides together to stop Buhleen from releasing a face-melting serum.
Catwoman takes what she wants when she wants it, but she will also save Benjamin Bratt, the cop that wants to capture her. And she tried to save Sharon from plummeting to her death. Sharon's been shut down, mistreated, shoved aside. She has a product that works — that she herself uses. Yeah, okay, she didn't know about the side effects when she started, but she was willing to try it out. She does believe in the company in a way. It's the system that made her. As the model, as the face of it, she's become a part of it.
The Matrix is so innovative in so many areas, in ways that have rippled through film in the decades since, encouraging so many imitators — and yet when it comes to the typical movie formula, the Wachowskis were incredibly just basic in an area that Catwoman made a strong choice with. The love story.
The Matrix shoehorns in a love story, which is surprising. In a movie that questions so much, the Wachowskis went with the standard — of course the main guy and the main girl are in love. Especially when I really did not feel a spark between Neo and Trinity. Yeah, she's been watching him, keeping an eye on him, but I felt in more of a mentor-guardian way. He's trained by Morpheus. He does stuff like talk to the Oracle alone. There really wasn't much bonding time between him and Trinity.
She just chalks their love up to fate at the end, when she whispers to him as he's dying: The Oracle told me that I would fall in love, and that that man — the man that I loved — would be the One. So you see, you can't be dead. You can't be, because I love you. Why? I don't get it. The Oracle told you that. You've spent this entire time thinking you two were in love, but I've seen you guys interact only a handful of times. Maybe the next two movies explore their relationship better, but within the confines of the original Matrix, I don't see it.
In Catwoman, she knows the best thing she can do for her love is to leave him. Not to entangle him in her life of crime. Not to conflict his police officer values. Benjamin Bratt is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her safe. He has separated Catwoman and Patience in his mind — he loves Patience and is intrigued by Catwoman — but Halle knows that isn't good for him. She needs to be free to do what she needs to do to keep people safe without endangering his moral code or putting him in a difficult position.
So she leaves, and she writes him a letter, and we see him reading it and he's bummed, of course, but there's also an understanding. He respects her and her choice. More superheroes should make the hard choice to ditch their loved ones so that those loved ones can't be used as bait. Superman, Spider-Man — get it together.
I hope you'll give Catwoman another chance if you've already watched it, or if you haven't watched it yet, maybe pop it on. It is a fun movie. It has a great villain. It's a good time. And of course The Matrix is great — I'm going to have to go watch two and three because I did really enjoy the first one.
