The Matrix

Believe the unbelievable.

Release Date 1999-03-31
Runtime 136 minutes
Status Released
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Overview

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

Budget $63,000,000
Revenue $463,517,383
Vote Average 8.23/10
Vote Count 26661
Popularity 17.5056
Original Language en

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Available Languages

English US
Title:
"Believe the unbelievable."
Deutsch DE
Title: Matrix
"Glaube das Unglaubliche."
Español ES
Title: Matrix
"Bienvenido al mundo real."
Český CZ
Title: Matrix
""
Pусский RU
Title: Матрица
"«Добро пожаловать в реальный мир»"
Français FR
Title: Matrix
"Croire à l'incroyable."

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Reviews

GeekMasher
9.5/10
The Martix is a great example of a movie that will live for ever or a very log time. The story and concept are out of this world. Keanu Reeves plays his role with utter brilliance, the cast was very well put together and the graphics are still to this day amazing. All in all one of the best movies of all time.
NeoBrowser
10.0/10
Get this: what if all we know as reality was, in fact, virtual reality? Reality itself is a ravaged dystopia run by technocrat Artificial Intelligence where humankind vegetates in billions of gloop-filled tanks - mere battery packs for the machineworld - being fed this late '90s VR (known as The Matrix - you with us here?) through an ugly great cable stuck in the back of our heads. And what if there was a group of quasi-spiritual rebels infiltrating The Matrix with the sole purpose of crashing the ruddy great mainframe and rescuing humans from their unknown purgatory? And, hey, what if Keanu Reeves was their Messiah? What sounds like some web freak's wet dream is, in fact, a dazzlingly nifty slice of sci-fi cool. The Wachowski Brothers (Andy and Larry - last seen dabbling in kinky lesbian noir with the excellent Bound) pulling off something like a million masterstrokes all at once. Taking the imprimatur of the video game, they meld the grungy noir of Blade Runner, the hyperkinetic energies of chopsocky, John Woo hardware and grandiose spiritual overtones into William Gibson's cyberpunk ethos to produce a new aesthetic for the millennium powered to the thudding beat of techno. And it is just incredible fun. The key is the technique of "flo-mo", a process born from Japanese animation, whereby an object in motion is seemingly frozen while the camera miraculously spins around it as if time and gravity are on hold. It grants the action (including some killer kung fu which Reeves and crew spent months perfecting) liberty to take on surreal visual highs. Superhuman feats permissible, of course, in the context of VR as the rebels download Herculean "talents" to fuel their subterfuge. Meanwhile, the audience can only gawp longingly, with its jaws thunking to the cinema floor in unison, as the heroes wrapped in skintight leather, sleek shades and designer cheekbones, spin up walls, leap from high rises and slip through streams of bullets in silken slo-mo. Tron this ain't. Immediately reigniting the moribund cyberpunk genre (the kids can't get enough Stateside), this has thrust Reeves from his imploding career back to Speed highs (and laying to rest the hideous ghost of Johnny Mnemonic) and stolen much more of Star Wars' thunder than was thought humanly possible. For all its loony plot, The Matrix is fabulous. Sure, the expert Fishburne is depended upon to expound the lion's share of the script as seer-like rebel leader Morpheus. Reeves, stunning in his newcast slenderness, as Thomas "Neo" Anderson, the hacker turned hope for all mankind (care of some ill-defined mystical calling) is asked little more than perpetual befuddlement. Like Speed, though, this movie plays on his iconic looks rather than his oak-like emoting. There's a major find, too, in the irresistible Carrie-Anne Moss, a majestically wrought combination of steely no-shit intelligence and rock-chick vivaciousness as fellow tripper Trinity. And Weaving, cast against type, neutralises his Aussie tones to a freaky deadpan, the head of the MiB-styled defence system set against the Goth invaders. And sure, three minutes of post-movie deliberation and all this state-of-the-art cyberdevilry is reduced to the purest gobbledygook. That, though, is not the point. The Matrix is about pure experience; it's been many a moon since the Empire crew have spilled out of a cinema literally buzzing with the sensation of a movie, babbling frenetically with the sheer excitement of discovery. From head to tail, the deliciously inventive Wachowskis (watch them skyrocket) have delivered the syntax for a new kind of movie: technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool, the usher will have to drag you kicking and screaming back into reality. You can bet your bottom dollar George never saw this phantom menace coming. Verdict - The deliciously inventive Wachowskis have delivered the syntax for a new kind of movie: technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool. 5/5 - Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine
StbMDB
10.0/10
It was around 2001 that I first watched this film and recently giving it another go, ever since, doesn't change the fact for me that this movie is an timeless piece of filmaking. From the characters to the striking and thought-provoking story, it basically has everything to make an action film a 10/10 in a book.
tmdb44006625
None/10
Finally got to see this on the big screen thanks to the TIFF Bell Lightbox in glorious 35mm. My reaction: whoa! On top of that, I was able to participate in a round table discussion over the film's technical innovations, thematic philosophies, religious metaphors, undertones of gender politics, and absolute ass-kicking action. Can a movie be any more perfect?
Wuchak
None/10
***Brainy, entertaining and iconic, but too cool*** When a Big City computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) feels something is intrinsically wrong with reality, a woman with superhuman abilities (Carrie-Anne Moss) informs him that a mysterious man named Morpheus has the answers (Laurence Fishburne). But he has to escape the “agents” who are pursuing him (e.g. Hugo Weaving) to get to Morpheus. At which point his world is turned upside down and inside out. Marcus Chong and Joe Pantoliano are also on hand. "The Matrix" (1999) is a cerebral sci-fi/action film that mixes elements of the first two Terminator flicks (1984/1991) with martial arts action and a basic concept that hails back to “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” (1979) and no doubt further. To put this intricate movie together and make it entertaining took genius, so I give credit to the Waschowski Brothers, um, I mean sisters (rolling my eyes). The casting is great and Carrie-Anne is stunning throughout (I usually don’t like short hair on women, but she’s an exception). For me, though, the Waschowskis made it too comic booky. The posturing characters in their slick black outfits & sunglasses scream “Yeah, right.” And the Messiah angle is old hat. The film runs 2 hours, 16 minutes, and was shot in Sydney, Australia, with some exterior scenes done in Nashville and San Francisco. GRADE: B
GenerationofSwine
10.0/10
You had me the moment you stopped Trinity in mod air, spun the camera around her, and then let her deliver that vicious kick. And that was at the start of the film. That was the best opening ever. That was, when it was 1999 and you saw it in the theater for the first time, the "WOW" moment that you can only assume is what the people who were old enough to see A New Hope felt in the theaters back in 1977. From the start it was just mind blowingly cool... and then the soundtrack kick serious butt, and the plot, the plot was just pure science fiction fun! And it held it, the look, the sci-fi fun, the absolute stylized coolness through out the movie to one of the coolest climaxes of any 90s film. It set the high water mark for sci-fi action. It was one of those movies that re-defined a genre.
The Movie Mob
10.0/10
**The Matrix completely changed the landscape of special effects, world-building, and cinematography, cementing itself in the halls of cinema glory as one of the most innovative films of all time.** I remember watching this movie for the first time as a 9-year-old and having my mind blown wide open! After rewatching it almost 25 years later, this movie is still a groundbreaking and breathtaking masterpiece. It’s hard to believe The Matrix came out in 1999 with the quality of effects and production it showcases that still hold up in many ways to modern films. But it’s more than the effects. The cinematography serves as the eyes of the audience with clever angles and shots, putting the viewer right in the middle of the action. The editing, sound, and visual effects all won Oscars. The fight choreography was as cutting edge as John Wick was in 2014 with its gun-fu. The Matrix created a fascinating and beguiling new universe that demanded to be explored. The neo-goth, noir, and retro aesthetics keep the movie from feeling dated all these years later. Hugo Weaving’s performance deserved more acclaim from the Academy because his unhinged Agent Smith is one of the most iconic villains in cinematic history. The Matrix impacted Hollywood and culture in a way that left it forever changed. The Matrix is a pillar of cinema and one of the greatest films of all time.
The Movie Mob
10.0/10
**The Matrix completely changed the landscape of special effects, world-building, and cinematography, cementing itself in the halls of cinema glory as one of the most innovative films of all time.** I remember watching this movie for the first time as a 9-year-old and having my mind blown wide open! After rewatching it almost 25 years later, this movie is still a groundbreaking and breathtaking masterpiece. It’s hard to believe The Matrix came out in 1999 with the quality of effects and production it showcases that still hold up in many ways to modern films. But it’s more than the effects. The cinematography serves as the eyes of the audience with clever angles and shots, putting the viewer right in the middle of the action. The editing, sound, and visual effects all won Oscars. The fight choreography was as cutting edge as John Wick was in 2014 with its gun-fu. The Matrix created a fascinating and beguiling new universe that demanded to be explored. The neo-goth, noir, and retro aesthetics keep the movie from feeling dated all these years later. Hugo Weaving’s performance deserved more acclaim from the Academy because his unhinged Agent Smith is one of the most iconic villains in cinematic history. The Matrix impacted Hollywood and culture in a way that left it forever changed. The Matrix is a pillar of cinema and one of the greatest films of all time.
CinemaSerf
7.0/10
"Thomas Anderson" is a nerdy boy by day, and an enigmatic hacker "Neo" by night. His latter persona is constantly challenging his norms, his behaviour, his reality even - and when he is contacted by Carrie-Anne Moss "Trinity" his suspicions begin to pan out and he is introduced to a crew of rebels led by "Morpheus" (Laurence Fishburne) on a mission to expose the extent to which mankind is merely a plaything of the "Matrix" living entirely imagined lives. The system is onto them, though, and using Hugo Weaving's "Agent Smith" and a fifth columnist from within the group's own ranks, is bent on their destruction. This film has that scarce value of having exciting (rather than delicately choreographed) action scenes married together with an intelligent, at times quite thought-provoking dialogue mixing fact/fiction and religiosity on a clever premiss that once we start to question reality; the conspiracy theories can run wild - and right to the top! Is "Neo" the one to save humanity - some sort of resurrected "one"? The Wachowski Brother remind us how to make a good sci-fi fantasy, but also that in his day Keanu Reeves was a one of the best, his boy-next-door good looks, agility and charisma working very well here. Of course the effects have dated, but one you've been subsumed into the plot - and if you are watching on a big screen - then that matters not; it's a gripping chunk of cinema depicting loyalty, determination and integrity that I really enjoyed.

Famous Quotes

"Time is always against us."
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
"Ignorance Is Bliss"
"I know kung fu."

Famous Conversations

AGENT JONES: You don't know.

AGENT SMITH: Know what?

AGENT JONES: They are dead. In either case --

AGENT SMITH: We have no choice but to continue as planned. Deploy the sentinels. Immediately.

AGENT SMITH: We'll need a search running.

AGENT JONES: It's already begun.

AGENT JONES: Then the informant is real.

AGENT SMITH: Does that surprise you? It was inevitable.

AGENT JONES: He'll be contacting us again.

AGENT SMITH: Expect it. Did you get anything from the room?

AGENT JONES: Their next target. The name is Neo.

AGENT SMITH: The great Morpheus. We meet at last.

MORPHEUS: And you are?

AGENT SMITH: Smith. I am Agent Smith.

MORPHEUS: You all look the same to me.

AGENT SMITH: The sewers. Of course.

MORPHEUS: Hurry!

AGENT SMITH: They won't make it.

LIEUTENANT: I sent two units. They're bringing her down now.

AGENT SMITH: No, Lieutenant, your men are already dead.

AGENT SMITH: Lieutenant?

LIEUTENANT: Oh shit.

AGENT SMITH: Lieutenant, you were given specific orders --

LIEUTENANT: I'm just doing my job. You gimme that Juris-my-dick-tion and you can cram it up your ass.

AGENT SMITH: The orders were for your protection.

APOC: What?!

SWITCH: Oh, God.

SWITCH: Weird.

APOC: What?

SWITCH: That's the third white van I've seen.

APOC: Should Tank I.D. it?

SWITCH: He's gonna make it.

APOC: No way. Not possible.

NEO: You ever have the feeling that you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?

CHOI: All the time. It's called mescaline and it is the only way to fly.

CHOI: Something wrong, man? You look a little whiter than usual.

NEO: I don't know... My computer...

CHOI: Hallelujah! You are my savior, man! My own personal Jesus Christ!

NEO: If you get caught using that --

CHOI: I know, I know. This never happened. You don't exist.

NEO: Right...

NEO: You got the money?

CHOI: Two grand.

NEO: You're two hours late.

CHOI: I know. It's her fault.

NEO: Who is it?

CHOI: It's Choi.

TRINITY: ... yes.

CYPHER: No!

TRINITY: Goddamn you, Cypher!

CYPHER: Don't hate me, Trinity. I'm just the messenger. And right now I'm going to prove it to you.

TRINITY: But you're out, Cypher. You can't go back.

CYPHER: That's what you think. They've promised to back me, Trinity. They're going to reinsert my body. I'll go back to sleep and when I wake up, I'll be fat and rich and I won't remember a goddamn thing. It's the American dream.

CYPHER: I'm tired, Trinity. I'm tired of this war, I'm tired of fighting. I'm tired of this ship, of being cold, of eating the same fucking goop every day. But most of all, I'm tired of this jagoff and all of his bullshit.

TRINITY: My God. Morpheus. You gave them Morpheus.

CYPHER: Yes. You see, the truth is, Trinity, that we humans have a place in the future. But it's not here. It's in the Matrix.

TRINITY: The Matrix isn't real!

CYPHER: Oh, I disagree, Trinity. I disagree. I think the Matrix is more real than this world. I mean, all I do is pull a plug here. But there, you watch a man die.

CYPHER: You are a beautiful woman. Too bad things had to work out like this.

TRINITY: You killed them.

CYPHER: Hello, Trinity.

TRINITY: Cypher? Where's Tank?

CYPHER: He had an accident.

TRINITY: An accident?!

CYPHER: There's something about him, isn't there?

TRINITY: Don't tell me you're a believer now?

CYPHER: I just keep wondering if Morpheus is so sure, why doesn't he take him to the Oracle? She would know.

TRINITY: Morpheus will take him when he's ready.

TRINITY: Are you sure this line is clean?

CYPHER: Yeah, 'course I'm sure.

TRINITY: Did you hear that?

CYPHER: Hear what?

CYPHER: Do you?

TRINITY: I... it doesn't matter what I believe.

CYPHER: You don't, do you?

TRINITY: If you have something to say, I suggest you say it to Morpheus.

CYPHER: I intend to, believe me. Someone has to.

TRINITY: Don't be ridiculous.

CYPHER: We're going to kill him. Do you understand that? He's going to die just like the others.

TRINITY: Morpheus believes he is the One.

CYPHER: You weren't supposed to relieve me.

TRINITY: I know but I felt like taking a shift.

NEO: Thanks... for the drink.

CYPHER: Any time.

CYPHER: I'm going to let you in on a little secret here. Now don't tell him I told you this, but this ain't the first time Morpheus thought he found the One.

NEO: Really?

CYPHER: You bet your ass. It keeps him going. Maybe it keeps all of us going.

NEO: How many were there?

CYPHER: Five. Since I've been here.

NEO: What happened to them?

CYPHER: Dead. All dead.

NEO: How?

CYPHER: Honestly. Morpheus. He got them all amped up believing in bullshit. I watched each of them take on an agent and I watched each of them die. Little piece of advice: you see an agent, you do what we do; run. Run your ass off.

CYPHER: Why you're here?

NEO: ... Yeah.

CYPHER: Gee-zus! What a mindfuck. You're here to save the world. You gotta be shitting me. What do you say to something like that?

NEO: Do you always look at it encoded?

CYPHER: Have to. The image translators sort of work for the construct programs but there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, and redhead. You want a drink?

NEO: Is that...?

CYPHER: The Matrix? Yeah.

CYPHER: Whoa! Shit, Neo, you scared the Bejeezus out of me.

NEO: Sorry.

CYPHER: No, it's all right.

NEO: What are you doing?

CYPHER: Midnight watch.

NEO: I don't believe it! I don't believe it!

CYPHER: He's going to pop!

CYPHER: There was an accident. A fucking car accident. All of a sudden. Boom. Jesus, someone's going to make a believer out of me.

TANK: I got you.

CYPHER: Just get me outta here.

TANK: Nearest exit is Franklin and Erie. An old appliance store.

TANK: Operator.

CYPHER: I need an exit! Fast!

TANK: Cypher?

TRINITY: You can't use that until Neo is out!

MORPHEUS: I know, Trinity. Don't worry. He's going to make it.

TRINITY: How long?

MORPHEUS: Five minutes. Maybe six.

TRINITY: What is he doing?

MORPHEUS: He's beginning to believe.

MORPHEUS: Give me your phone.

TRINITY: They'll be able to track it.

MORPHEUS: We have no choice.

MORPHEUS: We found him, Trinity. We finally found him.

TRINITY: What if he isn't the One, Morpheus? How can you be so sure?

TRINITY: I got a fibrillation!

MORPHEUS: Shit! Apoc?

TRINITY: All right --

MORPHEUS: Go.

MORPHEUS: I know. They cut the hardline. This line is not a viable exit.

TRINITY: Are they any agent?

MORPHEUS: Yes.

TRINITY: Goddamnit!

MORPHEUS: You have to focus. There is a phone. Wells and Lake. You can make it.

NEO: Morpheus, the Oracle... she told me --

MORPHEUS: She told you exactly what you needed to hear. That's all. Sooner or later, Neo, you're going to realize just like I did the difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

NEO: No. No! Morpheus! Don't!

MORPHEUS: Trinity! Go! Get to the basement. Find the catch basin!

MORPHEUS: Listen to me, Neo. I know why you're afraid to go through that door. You can't get free of thinking that I could be wrong. You must believe me. There is a greatness inside of you, Neo. A greatness that is going to lift you to unimaginable heights and that in time will change the world.

NEO: Morpheus, I don't know --

MORPHEUS: I know. That is why it is so important for you to go. Please, Neo, I'm asking you to find whatever respect you may have for me and trust me.

NEO: Did you believe in them too?

MORPHEUS: No. I did not. I have never told anyone this, Neo. After I saw the Oracle I thought... no, I misunderstood what she told me. I believed that it was all about me. That I would find the One, not that he would find me.

NEO: Morpheus, I don't think this is a good idea.

MORPHEUS: Why?

NEO: I told you I don't believe in this stuff. No matter what she says I'm not going to believe it, so what's the point?

MORPHEUS: What do you believe in?

NEO: What do I believe it? Are you kidding me? What do you think? I'm still trying to deal with the fact that everything I believed was real, wasn't. The whole world, my entire life was a lie. I don't know anything anymore, Morpheus.

MORPHEUS: That's why we're here.

NEO: Why? So I can hear some old lady tell me, what? That I'm this guy that everybody's been waiting for? The one that's supposed to save the world? Come on. How do I respond to that? I can't. It's ridiculous. I mean who am I? I'm nobody, I'm just a guy. What did I do, Morpheus? Why me?

MORPHEUS: Faith is beyond the reach of whys and why nots. These things are not a matter of cause and effect, Neo. I do not believe things with my mind. I believe them with my heart. In my gut.

NEO: And you still believe I'm the One?

MORPHEUS: Yes I do.

NEO: Yeah? What about the other five guys? The five before me? What about them?

NEO: So is this the same oracle that made the, uh, prophecy?

MORPHEUS: Yes. She's very old. She's been with us since the beginning.

NEO: The beginning?

MORPHEUS: Of the Resistance.

NEO: And she knows what? Everything?

MORPHEUS: She would say she knows enough.

NEO: How does she know?

MORPHEUS: She is a true psychic. She sees beyond the relativity of time. For her there is no past, present or future. There is only what is.

NEO: And she's never wrong.

MORPHEUS: Don't think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you find the path.

NEO: She helped you?

MORPHEUS: Yes.

NEO: What did she tell you?

MORPHEUS: That I would find the One.

MORPHEUS: Set down in there.

NEO: What's going on?

NEO: What? Are you trying to tell me that I can dodge bullets?

MORPHEUS: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

MORPHEUS: Every attempt to fight them has ended in failure. Only a handful of men and women have ever crossed an agent and lived because they are everyone and they are no one. Unkillable. But now I believe that is going to change.

NEO: How?

MORPHEUS: I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit noting but air. Yet as powerful as they are, their speed and strength are but tethers to the rules of an unreal world. Because of this, they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be.

MORPHEUS: Do you understand, Neo?

NEO: I think I do.

MORPHEUS: No you don't. Did you see the woman in the red dress?

NEO: Yeah.

MORPHEUS: Look again.

MORPHEUS: This is another Matrix simulation. A training program to help you get your sea legs and teach you one very important lesson.

NEO: What -- what lesson?

NEO: If you are killed in the Matrix, you die here?

MORPHEUS: The body cannot live without the mind.

NEO: I thought it wasn't real.

MORPHEUS: Your mind makes it real.

MORPHEUS: Do you know why you didn't make it?

NEO: Because... I didn't think I would?

NEO: I know what you're trying to do --

MORPHEUS: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo, but all I can do is show you the door. You're the one that has to step through. Tank, load the jump program.

MORPHEUS: How did I beat you?

NEO: You -- you're too fast.

MORPHEUS: Do you think my being faster, stronger has anything to do with my muscles in this place?

NEO: This is incredible. I know kung fu.

MORPHEUS: Show me.

MORPHEUS: Get some rest. You're going to need it.

NEO: For what?

MORPHEUS: Your training.

NEO: No! I don't believe it! It's not possible!

MORPHEUS: I didn't say that it would be easy, Neo. I just said that it would be the truth.

MORPHEUS: We have only bits and pieces of information. What we know for certain is that, at some point in the early Twenty-first Century, all of mankind was united in celebration. Through the blinding inebriation of hubris, we marveled at our magnificence as we gave birth to A.I.

NEO: A.I.? You mean artificial intelligence?

MORPHEUS: Yes. A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. I must say I find it almost funny to imagine the world slapping itself on the back, toasting the new age. I say almost funny.

NEO: This isn't real?

MORPHEUS: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

NEO: Right now, we're inside a computer program?

MORPHEUS: Wild, isn't it?

NEO: Morpheus, what's happened to me? What is this place?

MORPHEUS: More important than what is when?

NEO: When?

MORPHEUS: You believe the year is 1997 when in fact it is much closer to 2197. I can't say for certain what year it is because we honestly do not know.

NEO: Why do my eyes hurt?

MORPHEUS: You've never used them before.

NEO: What are you doing?

MORPHEUS: Your muscles have atrophied. We're rebuilding them.

NEO: ... am I dead?

MORPHEUS: Far from it.

MORPHEUS: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?

NEO: This can't be...

MORPHEUS: Be what? Be real?

MORPHEUS: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location.

NEO: What does that mean?

MORPHEUS: The Matrix is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out your window or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

NEO: What truth?

MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind.

MORPHEUS: Let me tell you why you are here. You have come because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You've felt it your whole life, felt that something is wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?

NEO: The Matrix?

MORPHEUS: Do you want to know what it is?

MORPHEUS: Ironically, this is not far from the truth. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Can you tell me, Neo, why are you here?

NEO: You're Morpheus, you're a legend. Most hackers would die to meet you.

MORPHEUS: Yes. Thank you. But I think we both know there's more to it than that. Do you believe in fate, Neo?

NEO: No.

MORPHEUS: Why not?

NEO: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.

MORPHEUS: I know exactly what you mean.

MORPHEUS: I imagine, right now, you must be feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?

NEO: You could say that.

MORPHEUS: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.

MORPHEUS: Welcome, Neo. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.

NEO: It's an honor.

MORPHEUS: Please. Come. Sit.

MORPHEUS: Do you still want to meet?

NEO: ... Yes.

MORPHEUS: Go the the Adams Street bridge.

MORPHEUS: This line is tapped so I must be brief.

NEO: The agents --

MORPHEUS: They got to you first, but they've underestimated how important you are. If they knew what I know, you would probably be dead.

NEO: What do you know?

MORPHEUS: You're the One, Neo. You see, you may have spent the last few years looking for me, but I've spent most of my life looking for you.

NEO: No way, no way, this is crazy.

MORPHEUS: There are only two ways out of this building. One is that scaffold. The other is in their custody. You take a chance either way. I leave it to you.

NEO: No! It's too far away.

MORPHEUS: There's a small ledge. It's a short climb. You can make it.

MORPHEUS: Good. Now there is a window. Open it.

NEO: How do you know all this?

MORPHEUS: The cubicle across from you is empty.

NEO: But what if...?

MORPHEUS: Go! Now!

NEO: What the fuck do they want with me?!

MORPHEUS: I'm not sure, but if you don't want to find out, you better get out of there.

NEO: How?!

MORPHEUS: I can guide you out, but you have to do exactly what I say.

NEO: Holy fucking shit!

MORPHEUS: Yes.

NEO: Morpheus...

MORPHEUS: I've been looking for you, Neo. I don't know if you're ready to see what I want to show you, but unfortunately, we have run out of time. They're coming for you, Neo. And I'm not sure what they're going to do.

NEO: Who's coming for me?

MORPHEUS: Stand up and see for yourself.

NEO: Right now?

MORPHEUS: Yes. Now.

NEO: Hello?

MORPHEUS: Hello, Neo. Do you know who this is?

TANK: How...?!

MORPHEUS: He is the One. He is the One!

TANK: I'm going to make the call.

MORPHEUS: Do it!

MORPHEUS: Tank, charge the E.M.P.

TANK: Yes, sir.

MORPHEUS: Tank.

TANK: Goddamn! It's good to hear your voice, sir!

MORPHEUS: We need an exit.

TANK: Got one ready, sir. Subway. State and Balbo.

MORPHEUS: We're on our way --

TANK: Now left and that's it in front of you.

MORPHEUS: Good.

TANK: Got it.

MORPHEUS: I need the main wet-wall.

MORPHEUS: How is he?

TANK: Ten hours straight. He's a machine.

ORACLE: Morpheus believes in you, Neo and no one, not you or even me can convince him otherwise. He believes it so blindly that he's going to sacrifice his life to save yours.

NEO: What?

ORACLE: You're going to have to make a final choice. In one hand, you will have Morpheus' life. In the other hand, you will have your own. One of you is going to die. Which one, will be up to you.

ORACLE: What's funny?

NEO: Morpheus. He almost had me convinced.

ORACLE: I know. Poor Morpheus. Without him we are lost. We will never find the One.

NEO: What do you mean, without him?

ORACLE: Okay, now I'm supposed to say, 'Hmmm, that's interesting but...' Then you say --

NEO: But what?

ORACLE: But you already know what I'm going to tell you.

NEO: I'm not the One.

ORACLE: Sorry, kid. You got the gift but looks like you're waiting for something.

NEO: What?

ORACLE: Your next life, maybe. Who knows. That's how these things go.

ORACLE: So? What do you think? You think you're the One?

NEO: Honestly? I don't know.

ORACLE: You're cuter than I thought. I see why she likes you.

NEO: Who?

ORACLE: Not too bright though.

ORACLE: I said don't worry about it. I'll get one of my kids to fix it.

NEO: How did you know...?

ORACLE: That vase.

NEO: Shit, I'm sorry.

NEO: Hello?

ORACLE: I know. You're Neo. Be right with you.

NEO: You're the Oracle?

ORACLE: Bingo. Not quite what you were expecting, right? I got to say I love seeing you non-believers. Always a pip. Almost done. Smell good, don't they?

NEO: Yeah.

ORACLE: I'd ask you to sit down, but you're not going to anyway. And don't worry about the vase.

NEO: What vase?

NEO: Can you fly that thing.

TRINITY: Not yet.

TRINITY: Are you all right?

NEO: I'm fine. Come on, we have to keep moving.

TRINITY: Neo, how did you do that?

NEO: Do what?

TRINITY: You moved like they moved. I've never seen anyone move that fast.

NEO: It wasn't fast enough.

TRINITY: No one has ever done anything like this.

NEO: Yeah?

NEO: What are you doing?

TRINITY: I'm coming with you.

NEO: No, you're not.

TRINITY: No? Let me tell you what I believe. I believe Morpheus means more to me than he does to you. I believe that if you are serious about saving him then you are going to need my help and since I am the ranking officer on this ship, if you don't like it then I believe that you can go to hell, because you aren't going anywhere else.

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I believe I can bring him back.

TRINITY: No, you... have to be.

NEO: I'm sorry, I'm not. I'm just another guy. Morpheus is the one that matters.

TRINITY: No, Neo. That's not true. It can't be true.

NEO: Why?

TRINITY: Because...

TRINITY: What are you doing?

NEO: I'm going in after him.

TRINITY: You can't!

NEO: I have to.

TRINITY: Morpheus sacrificed himself so we could get you out! There's no way you're going back in!

NEO: Morpheus did what he did because he believed that I'm something I'm not.

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I'm not the One, Trinity. The Oracle hit me with that too.

NEO: That I would have to make a choice...

TRINITY: What choice?

TRINITY: Goddamnit! Goddamnit!

NEO: There has to be something that we can do.

TRINITY: What happened?

NEO: I don't know. It just went dead.

NEO: Is Morpheus alive?

TRINITY: Is Morpheus still alive, Tank?

TRINITY: Go!

NEO: We can't leave him!

TRINITY: We have to!

NEO: What is it?

TRINITY: A deju vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

TRINITY: What did you just say?

NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.

TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?

NEO: A black cat went past us and then I saw another that looked just like it.

TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same cat?

NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure.

TRINITY: Are you all right?

NEO: ... right as rain.

NEO: Did you go to her?

TRINITY: Yes.

NEO: What did she tell you?

TRINITY: She told me...

NEO: What does that mean?

TRINITY: That the Matrix cannot tell you who you are.

NEO: But an Oracle can.

TRINITY: That's different.

NEO: Is it?

TRINITY: Are you worried?

NEO: Should I be?

TRINITY: No.

NEO: God...

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I used to eat there... Really good noodles.

NEO: E.M.P. An electromagnetic pulse.

TRINITY: It disables any electrical system in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.

NEO: Get this thing out of me!

TRINITY: Easy, Neo. Easy.

NEO: Uh-oh...

TRINITY: It's going into replication.

NEO: What is this thing?

TRINITY: We think you're bugged. Try to relax.

TRINITY: And I know that's not where you want to be.

NEO: ... shit.

TRINITY: Neo, please, you have to trust me.

NEO: Why?

TRINITY: Because you've been down there, Neo. You already know that road. You know exactly where it ends.

NEO: What the hell is this?!

TRINITY: It's necessary, Neo. For our protection.

NEO: From what?

TRINITY: From you.

TRINITY: It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did. It is a hacker's question.

NEO: What is the Matrix?

TRINITY: When I asked him, he said that no one could ever be told the answer to that question. They have to see it to believe it.

NEO: How did you do that?

TRINITY: Right now, all I can tell you, is that you are in danger. I brought you here to warn you.

NEO: Of what?

TRINITY: They're watching you, Neo.

NEO: Who is?

TRINITY: Please. Just listen. I know why you're here, Neo. I know why you left your family and your friends, why you left your home to come to this city. You're looking for him.

NEO: Do you want to go somewhere and talk?

TRINITY: No. It's safe here and I don't have much time.

TRINITY: Hello, Neo.

NEO: How do you know that name?

TRINITY: I know a lot about you. I've been wanting to meet you for some time.

NEO: Who are you?

TRINITY: My name is Trinity.

NEO: Trinity? The Trinity? The Trinity that cracked the I.R.S. Kansas City D-Base?

TRINITY: That was a long time ago.

NEO: Gee-zus.

TRINITY: What?

NEO: I just thought... you were a guy.

TRINITY: Most guys do.

NEO: It's locked.

TANK: Kick it in! Kick it in!

NEO: Which way? Which way?

TANK: Duck!

TANK: Operator.

NEO: Mr. Wizard, get me the fuck out of here!

TANK: Okay. Store's open. What do you need? Besides a miracle...

NEO: Guns. Lots of guns.

TANK: Neo, this is loco. They've got Morpheus in a military-controlled building. Even if you somehow got inside, those are agents holding him. Three of them! I want Morpheus back, too, but what you are talking about is suicide.

NEO: I know that's what it looks like, but it's not. I can't logically explain to you why it's not. Morpheus believed something and he was ready to give his life for what he believed. I understand that now. That's why I have to go.

TANK: Why?

NEO: Because I believe in something.

NEO: Goddamnit! I don't believe this is happening!

TANK: Neo, this has to be done!

NEO: Does it? I don't know. This can't be just coincidence. It can't be! Can it?

TANK: What are you talking about?

NEO: The Oracle. She told me this would happen. She told me...

TANK: When it does, Morpheus will tell them anything they want to know.

NEO: What do they want?

TANK: Every leader of every ship is given the codes to Zion's mainframe computer which can be accessed only through the Matrix. They are used only in emergencies. If an agent had those codes and got inside Zion's mainframe they could disable the entire defense system. It would be the end of everything.

NEO: What are they doing to him?

TANK: They're hacking his mind.

NEO: How?

TANK: They inject virus-like serums to attack the neuro-systems. It's like cracking a computer. All it takes is time.

NEO: How much time?

TANK: Depends on the mind. But eventually, it will crack and his alpha pattern will change from this to this.

NEO: See who?

TANK: The Oracle.

NEO: Holy shit!

TANK: Hey, Mikey, he likes it! Ready for more?

NEO: Hell yes!

NEO: You don't have...

TANK: Any holes? Nope. Me and my brother Dozer, we are 100 percent pure, old- fashioned, home-grown human. Born free. Right here in the real world. Genuine child of Zion.

NEO: Zion?

TANK: If this war ended tomorrow, Zion is where the party would be.

NEO: It's a city?

TANK: The last human city. The only place we got left.

NEO: Where is it?

TANK: Deep underground. Near the earth's core, where it's still warm. You live long enough, you might even see it.

TANK: Morning. Did you sleep?

NEO: No.

TANK: You will tonight. I guarantee it. I'm Tank. I'll be your operator.

TANK: They've burned through the outer shields.

TRINITY: Hurry, Neo.

TRINITY: What just happened?

TANK: I don't know. I lost him.

TRINITY: Neo!

TANK: What the hell just happened?

TRINITY: An Agent! You have to send me back!

TANK: I can't!

TANK: Operator.

TRINITY: Tank, I need a pilot program for a military M-109 helicopter.

TANK: There is. We have to pull the plug.

TRINITY: You're going to kill him? Kill Morpheus?!

TANK: Trinity, we don't have any other choice.

TRINITY: Tank, you're hurt.

TANK: I'll be all right.

TRINITY: Dozer?

TRINITY: We need an exit!

TANK: You're not far from Cypher.

TRINITY: Cypher, I thought --

TANK: So did we. I sent him to Franklin and Erie.

TRINITY: Got it.

TANK: Yes. They're moving him. I don't know where yet.

TRINITY: He's alive.

TANK: Operator.

TRINITY: Tank, it's me.

Oscar Awards

Wins

FILM EDITING - 1999 Zach Staenberg
SOUND - 1999 John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee
SOUND EFFECTS EDITING - 1999 Dane A. Davis
VISUAL EFFECTS - 1999 John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley, Jon Thum

Nominations

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Media

Behind the Scenes
You’ll Never Believe How This 'Matrix' Shot Was Done!
Teaser
Official 25th Anniversary Trailer #3
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25th Anniversary Spot