THE MATRIX MOVIES MOVIE

Like the “Spaghetti Westerns” of the 1960s, these action thrillers are changing the way Hollywood depicts violence, with intense, almost balletic, martial arts fight scenes and two-handed gun battles full of dramatic leaps and slow-motion body twirls.

THE MATRIX MOVIES MOVIE

Hong Kong action thrillers continue their influence in Hollywood with the science fiction thriller THE MATRIX, the new movie starring Keanu Reeves of SPEED and LITTLE BUDDHA.

Christian allegory & moral worldview with Pagan elements, vaguely New Age, regarding violence & philosophy about virtual computer world & real world 25 obscenities & 14 profanities, mostly exclamatory & a few that are also appeals to God, plus four 'f' words heard in song over final credits extreme action violence, with a little gore, including several brutal martial arts battles, evil secret agents get police to chase & shoot heroes, two main heroes storm office building in a hail of bullets to rescue leader, explosions, minor heroes betrayed & murdered, movie shows how evil intelligent machines hook up human bodies, placing them in vat of goo, to harvest their electrical energy as a replacement for solar power no sex but reference to sex in virtual computer world upper male nudity & brief rear male nudity, plus woman in low-cut red dress & woman in tight-fitting clothes alcohol use smoking people go to vaguely occult seer called 'The Oracle' who 'reads' their future but no mention of where prophet gets her power & boy with shaved head mentally bends spoon in virtual computer world mildly feminist images of women doing macho combat but men do most of the brutal martial arts combat and, evil villains pose as secret agents to oppress humans but are defeated, evil agent expresses hatred for humanity, talk of Fate is rebuked, & virtual computer world is described at the end as 'a world without rules and controls, beyond boundaries, a world where anything is possible.' More Detail:

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