THE MATRIX

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Science fiction themes, action violence and coarse language

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The Matrix is a science fiction action film in which Neo, a talented computer hacker, discovers that life on earth is an elaborate deception perpetrated by an evil cyber-intelligence, and attempts to fight back. The film contains additional material appended to the start of the feature in the form of a brief featurette about the legacy of the series and a trailer for an upcoming entry into the franchise, The Matrix Resurrections.

Themes

The film contains science fiction themes including a sequence in which a digital bug infiltrates a man's stomach, sequences in which characters engage in highly stylised combat in a virtual reality space and combat with science fiction weaponry.

Violence

The film contains action sequences depicting hand-to-hand combat, as well as combat with firearms, with occasional depictions of bloody injuries resulting from these sequences of combat.

Sex

The film contains discrete verbal references to sexual activity and prostitution, as well as occasional depictions of sexualised imagery.

Language

The film contains use of the words "f**k", "shit" and "damn".

Drug use

The film contains verbal references to the use of "dope" and "mescalin".

Nudity

The film contains very brief depictions of non-sexualised buttock nudity.

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26 November 2021

Year of production

1999

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Science fiction themes, action violence and coarse language

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