The Wachowskis used action as a metaphor. Every punch and kick was a physical expression of ideas about resistance, replication, and inevitability. To dismiss these fights as pointless is to miss that ...

A lot has changed since "The Matrix" bowed in 1999. Its high-leaping, time-suspending fight scenes have been copied innumerable times, and the entire culture of cyberpromise that birthed the project ...

When audiences went into The Matrix Reloaded, the sequel to the enduring action film The Matrix, there were a lot of expectations about what was coming. After all, following up on what is widely ...

The Matrix is one of the films that made cinematic history. In addition to inspiring a wave of action films in the early 2000s, including Underworld and Equilibrium, it helped launch the second act of ...