[MeechMunchie]

Hey, come on. It may be diluted by endless fight scenes, but some genuine creativity and symbolism went into that film. Would you accept "clever"?

The idea may be an old one, explored in more depth elsewhere, but it's the way it's communicated that I like. The colour filters, the human programs, the way it's always raining when the Matrix is weakened. Besides, presenting abstract concepts in a means digestible to the everyman is an achievement in itself.

But no, a slick sci-fi heist movie with flying robot squid is not going to get my noggin searing with existential confusion, basically because it is so outlandishly fictional. Plenty of equally entertaining films like The Truman Show challenge our perception of reality without departing too far from the realms of possibility.

And that's fine. Because The Matrix isn't a philosophy film. The focus has always been on the battle against the machines. The actual "illusion world" is basically a set-up for "what if everything the world wanted to kill you". It's a war film, basically. It should be praised and criticised as such.