What can you check out next?
After watching all three Matrix films for the umpteenth time, you may find yourself looking for some movies to sink your teeth into. Here are some of our favorites:Ghost in the Shell - This 1995 Japanese animated film was a major inspiration for the Wachowskis and still holds up as a great science-fiction movie. The plot follows a cyborg police officer named Kusanagi who is just as spunky and deadly as Trinity. A hacker called the Puppet Master is hacking into human brains and running amokand Kusanagi just can’t stand for that. But what does her own artificial self have to do with the mystery?Existenz - This is a dark film by the renowned director David Cronenberg, with a lot of scenes that could make you wince. It stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as a virtual reality game developer who is being targeted by an assassin with bizarre weaponry. Jude Law is the mild-mannered marketing trainee who is forced to go on the run with her. Together the two uncover a strange rivalry between two game companies and the “realists”, who are fighting to maintain reality.Minority Report – This 2002 sci-fi thriller is also a modern noir mystery, with an interesting twist: the crime hasn’t been committed yet. Instead, a trio of psychics predicts crimes and Tom Cruise apprehends them before it occursthat is, until the psychics “see” Cruise in the act of murder. Director Steven Spielberg doesn’t disappoint in this exciting tale.Tron: Legacy – This film hasn’t been released yet, but all signs point to it being an interesting and adult remake of an ’80s favorite. Garrett Hedlund plays the son of Jeff Bridges’s character from the original. Hedlund goes looking for his father and finds himtrapped in a gladiator-like virtual world. The two are forced to fight for their lives as they make their way back to reality.