Perception: Our day-in, day-out world is real. Reality: That world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in The Matrix, the see-and-see-again cyber thriller written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. The story sears, the special effects stake out new moviemaking territory - the movie flat-out rocks.