The Matrix

Few movies in history have managed to encapsulate the high and low art of comic books so thoroughly as The Matrix. It’s an almost perfect hybrid of kung fu and sci-fi, gun-fetishism and spirituality, carnality and philosophy. Granted, it’s philosophy 101. But still, very few movies so determined to entertain also dare to be genuinely profound. It’s fun to have your mind blown, as I did again when Neo realizes: when he is loved in his real world, he can do anything in his dream world -- even stop bullets and, at last, as the chorus sings, see the matrix.