Release date: March 31, 1999 (USA)
Description
Thomas Anderson is a computer programmer who maintains a double life as the hacker "Neo". Infamous hacker Trinity contacts Neo and informs him that a man named Morpheus can tell him the meaning of the "Matrix", a cryptic phrase he has uncovered; however, three dark-suited Agents, led by Agent Smith, arrest Neo to prevent this. Evading surveillance, Neo meets with Morpheus, who warns that he can be shown the Matrix but will be unable to 'go back'. Neo accepts by choosing an offered red pill; his reality soon disintegrates and he abruptly wakes, naked and weak, in a liquid-filled vessel, to find he is one of billions of people connected by cables to an elaborate electrical system. He is rescued by Morpheus and brought aboard a levitating ship, the Nebuchadnezzar.
Morpheus tells Neo that he is from Zion, the last free human refuge. He explains that in reality, there had been a war in which humans lost to intelligent machines in which humans attacked the machines' access to solar energy and the machines responded by artificially harvesting and connecting humans from birth to a simulation of the 1999 world, called "the Matrix", in order to use their bioelectricity as a substitute power source. Morpheus and his crew are one of several who "unplug" enslaved humans and recruit them as rebels. They can hack into the Matrix to re-enter its simulated reality, where their understanding of its true nature allows them to manipulate the simulation's physical laws, granting them seemingly superhuman abilities, but the simulation protects itself from threats using human-like powerful sentient programs known as "Agents", and he learns that fatal injuries within the Matrix will manifest as death of the physical body. Neo proves highly skilled during virtual combat training. Morpheus believes Neo is "the One", a man prophesied to end the war between humans and machines.
The group enters the Matrix to visit the Oracle, a prophet who predicted the emergence of the One. The Oracle implies to Neo that he is not the One, and warns he will soon have to choose between his own life and that of Morpheus. Still within the Matrix, the group are ambushed by Agents and tactical police, and Morpheus allows himself to be captured to let Neo and the rest of the crew escape. Their departure from the simulated world is hindered by Cypher, a crew member disillusioned with the harshness of the real world, who had secretly betrayed them to the Agents in exchange for a return to comfortable life within the Matrix. Cypher murders several of the group whose real bodies lie defenseless in the ship, before he is himself killed by the brother of one of them. In the Matrix, the Agents interrogate Morpheus to learn his access codes to Zion's main computer.
Neo returns to the Matrix with Trinity to rescue Morpheus; in the process, Neo gains confidence in his ability to manipulate the Matrix, performing physical feats on a par with the Agents. Morpheus tells Neo that the Oracle had told him what he needed to hear. Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix, but Smith ambushes and kills Neo before he can leave. Outside the Matrix, "sentinel" machines converge on the Nebuchadnezzar. Trinity, standing over Neo in the real world, whispers to Neo that the Oracle told her she would fall in love with the One. She kisses Neo, and he revives in the Matrix. His ability to perceive and control the Matrix reaches a new height, and he effortlessly destroys Smith before exiting the Matrix in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse weapon to destroy the attacking sentinels. A final scene shows Neo making a telephone call in the Matrix, promising the Machines he will show their prisoners "a world where anything is possible".
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