Keanu Reeves swaps surfing for saving the world as he breaks out of the virtual ‘real’ world and enters the matrix, with a good amount of fighting the corporate clones in between. After years of imitations paler than the twins in The Matrix Reloaded, it is easy to forget how innovative its so-called ‘bullet time’ effects were, and how incredibly influential they were on all action films and especially martial arts films (and indeed some other films on this list…) ever since. The Matrix is the nearest that Hollywood has got to a martial arts masterpiece, and still holds strong even 15 years on from its release.
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