The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.
The Wachowskis direct this old fashioned space opera with shiny new special effects, CGI flourishes, interstellar despots, and Channing Tatum as a dog soldier with canine DNA.
