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The Matrix: Most Influential Action Movie Of Its Generation

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On March 31st 1999, the World of "the Matrix." The Matrix premiered and changed the cinematic experience. Entertainment Weekly cited in their 1999 cover ”The Year That Changed Movies.” A few years later in 2003, the magazine stated: ”The Matrix is the most influential action movie of its generation.”

Directed by the Wachowski's, it starred Keanu Reeves as Neo Laurence Fishburne as
Morpheus, Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, and Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith. The film would go on to gross 464 million dollars world-wide on a budget of 63 million dollars. If you were to add in inflation, that's a little under 90 million in today's dollars, still low (Batman V. Superman's budget was 250 million). It would go on to win 4 Oscars (Film Editing, Sound, Sound
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