Matrix

Plot

In an abandoned hotel, a woman (later revealed to be Trinity) is cornered by a police squad but quickly overpowers them with superhuman abilities. She flees the scene, pursued by the police as well as a group of mysterious suited Agents. She answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes. Computer programmer Thomas Anderson, known in the hacking scene by his alias "Neo", feels something is wrong with the world and is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the concept of "the Matrix." Trinity contacts him and tells him a man named Morpheus has the answers he seeks. The Agents, led by Agent Smith, apprehend Anderson and threaten him into helping them capture the "terrorist" Morpheus. Undeterred, Anderson later meets Morpheus, who offers him the choice between two pills; the red one to show him the truth about the Matrix, and the blue one to return him to his former life. After Anderson swallows the red pill, his reality disintegrates. Neo awakens in a liquid-filled pod among countless others attached to an elaborate electrical system. He is retrieved and brought aboard Morpheus' hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. As Neo recuperates from a lifetime of physical inactivity, Morpheus explains the truth. In the 21st century, there was a war between humans and intelligent machines. When humans blocked the machines' access to solar energy, the machines responded by harvesting the humans' bioelectric power, keeping them pacified in the Matrix, a shared simulated reality modeled after the world as it was at the end of the 20th century. While the machines have taken over the world, the city of Zion still remains as the last refuge of free humans. Morpheus and his crew have taken to hacking into the Matrix and freeing those who are deemed ready. Their understanding of the Matrix enables them to bend its rules, granting them superhuman abilities. Morpheus warns Neo that death within the Matrix also kills the physical body, and that the Matrix is patrolled by powerful computer programs called Agents that are tasked with eliminating threats to the system, while machines called Sentinels search to destroy humans in the real world. Neo's prowess during virtual combat training lends credibility to Morpheus' belief that Neo is "the One", an especially powerful human prophesied to free humanity and end the war. The group visit the Oracle, the all-knowing prophet who predicted the emergence of the One. She implies that Neo is not the One and warns that he will have to choose between Morpheus' life and his own. The group is ambushed by Agents and tactical police, tipped by Cypher, a disgruntled crew member who seeks to betray Morpheus in exchange for a comfortable life in the Matrix. Morpheus allows himself to be captured so the rest of the crew can escape. Cypher exits the Matrix first and murders several crew members as they lie defenseless in the real world. Before he can kill Neo, Tank, a crewman whom he had only wounded, kills him. In the Matrix, the Agents interrogate Morpheus to learn his access codes to the mainframe computer in Zion. Tank proposes killing Morpheus to prevent this, but Neo decides to sacrifice himself to save Morpheus. He enters the Matrix, accompanied by Trinity. While rescuing Morpheus, Neo gains confidence in his abilities, performing feats comparable to the Agents'. Morpheus and Trinity exit the Matrix, but Smith ambushes and kills Neo before he can leave. As a group of Sentinels attack the Nebuchadnezzar, Trinity whispers to Neo that he can't be dead, because she loves him and the Oracle told her that she would fall in love with the One. She kisses Neo and he revives. With his newfound power to perceive and control the Matrix, Neo effortlessly defeats Smith. He leaves the Matrix just in time for the ship's electromagnetic pulse to disable the Sentinels. Later, Neo makes a telephone call inside the Matrix, promising the machines that he will show their prisoners "a world where anything is possible". He hangs up and flies into the sky.

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