>It’s Special Effects 10, Screenplay 0 for “The Matrix,” an eye-popping but incoherent extravaganza of morphing and superhuman martial arts. Ultra-cool visuals that truly deliver something new to the sci-fi action lexicon will make this time-jumping thriller a must-see among genre fans, especially guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script’s pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability.

https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/the-matrix-1200456768/

it was a different time

>>219825236
Imagine being too low IQ for The Matrix

>>219827370
>Imagine being too low IQ for The Matrix
I remember hearing Back to the Future II was too confusing for general audiences and wondering why at age 9.

Meanwhile I saw this in the theater like three times, once in its initial run then twice more at the dollar store theater just up the road. We hotboxed the car at the dollar theater before the show. Fucking awesome. 1999 really was the peak of humanity. Zoomers would kill themselves if they saw what things were like back then until 2008.