These three films possibly make up the Star Wars of our generation. When the Matrix first came out in 1999 it wasn't preceeded by the hype of a huge Hollywood blockbuster, and possibly only in hindsight can one tell that this was going to be a 'big' movie.
Calling it a generation defining trilogy (although some may say it's not strictly a trilogy) is no mean feat. But when was the last time a movie has questioned our sense of reality to such an extent? Sure, Fight Club asked us if we could tell reality from a lie, but only the Matrix asked us "How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? ".
I can remember seeing the first Matrix film. It was a mind blow. Not your typical David Lynch 'I have no idea what is going on here' mind blow, but the sort that calls reality into question.
The Wachowski's have definitely got something going on here. Not only have they made a decent sequel, but they thought "what are we going to do with all this footage that we have lying around?. I know. let's make a game based around it." Or at least that's the feeling you get after having played the game. Rather than following the cliched path of the heroes, Neo, Trinity and Morpheus, it decides to tag along behind two of the lesser characters in the movie, Niobe and Ghost) and develops these two characters that have next to no time on the screen.
Niobe comes across as this hard-as-nails type who has the ability to kick it with the best of them. Although, being played by the ever so cute Jada Pinkett Smith, she comes across as flat and rather emotionless. This is maybe how it's meant to be, but I think a bit more time could've been spent on happiness, anger and any other form of feeling.
Ghost, however, turns out to be smooth, suave and lethal. At first glances Ghost, played by Anthony Wong, is nothing but a deadly revolutionary, but over the course of the game and, in three clips in particular (conversations with Persephone, Trinity, and the Oracle) we discover that he has this unrequited love for a female friend of his.
