The Matrix

The Matrix Trilogy Ending Explained: Neo’s Sacrifice And New Reboot

The Matrix Trilogy Ending Explained: Neo’s Sacrifice And New Reboot

The Matrix Trilogy is one of the most complex and layered stories in film history, rife with hidden symbolism and ...

Why Modern Sci-Fi Movies Owe A Debt To A Cronenberg Body Horror Classic

Why Modern Sci-Fi Movies Owe A Debt To A Cronenberg Body Horror Classic

David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is rarely credited with its enduring influence on modern sci-fi, but this strange and gory mind-bender casts a long ...

The Matrix: 7 Other Movies That Influenced The Franchise

The Matrix: 7 Other Movies That Influenced The Franchise

The Wachowskis’ 1999 sci-fi actioner The Matrix has been praised as one of the greatest movies ever made. Contemporary audiences ...

Why Is Neo Special? What Makes Him The Matrix’s One?

Why Is Neo Special? What Makes Him The Matrix’s One?

The Matrix’s Neo is one of the most famous examples of the “chosen one” trope, but what exactly makes Neo ...

Matrix: Morpheus Told Neo He Wasn’t The First One (Before the Architect)

Matrix: Morpheus Told Neo He Wasn’t The First One (Before the Architect)

Did Morpheus tell Neo he wasn’t the first “One” before The Architect in The Matrix? It was revealed in The ...

Why Morpheus & Trinity Look Different In Neo’s Matrix Modal

Why Morpheus & Trinity Look Different In Neo’s Matrix Modal

Trinity and Morpheus look different in The Matrix Resurrections‘ opening sequence, and the reason has to do with Neo’s Matrix ...

Why Morpheus Can Beat Neo But Not The Agents

Why Morpheus Can Beat Neo But Not The Agents

In The Matrix trilogy, few others aside from Neo are able to go toe-to-toe with the Agents, yet Morpheus is able to beat ...

The Matrix 4 Is Making Neo and Trinity Even More Powerful

The Matrix 4 Is Making Neo and Trinity Even More Powerful

The trailer for The Matrix Resurrections sees Neo and Trinity more powerful than ever before. Eighteen years after the release ...

Every The Matrix Video Game Spin-off Explained

Every The Matrix Video Game Spin-off Explained

The Matrix movies were one of the most unique and well-known movie franchises of the 2000’s. Naturally, such a popular franchise ...

How Agent Smith’s Fighting Style Changes Throughout The Matrix Movies

How Agent Smith’s Fighting Style Changes Throughout The Matrix Movies

Agent Smith’s fighting style changes throughout the original Matrix trilogy, as a reflection of his character arc from a pawn ...

Every Major Movie Role Leonardo DiCaprio Turned Down

Every Major Movie Role Leonardo DiCaprio Turned Down

Here’s every major movie role Leonardo DiCaprio passed on. From being a ’90s teen heartthrob starring in the then-biggest box office hit ...

The Matrix: 10 Most Quotable Lines

The Matrix: 10 Most Quotable Lines

The Matrix  is a film that greatly influenced creations of sci-fi that came after it, and it continues to do so ...

The Matrix 4 Theory: How & Why Every Character Returns

The Matrix 4 Theory: How & Why Every Character Returns

Here are the most convincing theories for how and why each main character returns in The Matrix Resurrections. The Wachowski sisters’ Matrix trilogy seemingly concluded ...

10 Most Epic Martial Arts Movie Fights

10 Most Epic Martial Arts Movie Fights

In the martial arts movie genre, there are fight scenes, and then there are fight scenes – sequences of awesome choreographed ...

The Matrix’s Haunted House is Still One of the Series’ Greatest Mysteries

The Matrix’s Haunted House is Still One of the Series’ Greatest Mysteries

The haunted house featured in The Matrix‘s appendix film The Animatrix continues to be one of the franchise’s greatest mysteries ...

How & Why The First Matrix Was Created

How & Why The First Matrix Was Created

Discovering and understanding what the Matrix is was the starting point of The Matrix franchise. Released in 1999, The Matrix ...

The Matrix’s Neo Actually Got Weaker After The Second Movie

The Matrix’s Neo Actually Got Weaker After The Second Movie

Neo, the protagonist of The Matrix movies, actually got weaker after the second movie The Matrix Reloaded. Neo possesses extraordinary ...

Every Animatrix Short Explained: Matrix Connections & Are They Canon?

Every Animatrix Short Explained: Matrix Connections & Are They Canon?

In addition to the four theatrical live-action The Matrix movies, the Matrix franchise also features an animated film – The ...

The Matrix’s True Villains Aren’t the Machines (or Agent Smith)

The Matrix’s True Villains Aren’t the Machines (or Agent Smith)

The true villains of The Matrix universe are actually the humans, not the machines or even Agent Smith. Ever since ...

What The Matrix Is & Why It Exists: A Full Explanation

What The Matrix Is & Why It Exists: A Full Explanation

The Matrix‘s titular simulated world is one of the franchise’s most iconic yet most confusing things, so here’s what the ...