I actually thought The Matrix was deathly boring. Though I’m sure it was a technological breakthrough. Truly wretched acting and dialogue though...and chop socky stuff ripped off from various Asian sources.
Oh the acting sucked for sure. What made it for me was thinking about the cerebral ‘what if’ aspects and how it was dealt with. On the surface for sure it was a popcorn movie. And yea, the Hong Kong wirework definitely didn’t help.