The Wachowskis "The Matrix", a science fiction action film, in 1999. The movie stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a hacker recruited by a rebellion to aid them in the fight against machines who have taken over the world and placed humanity inside a simulated reality called "the Matrix". Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano also star. The movie was a critical and commercial hit for Warner Bros. It won four Academy Awards, including for "Best Visual Effects" for popularizing the bullet time visual effect. "The Matrix" came to be a major influence for action movies and has appeared in
Keanu (film) Boys are revealed to have survived the shooting and get back into their car. The film was officially announced by New Line Cinema in October 2014, with Peter Atencio directing. Many sites reporting on the film initially believed it to be a parody of the then recently released "John Wick" but according to Atencio the two films were developed independently of each other, and the team was initially unaware of "Wick" until work on "Keanu" was already underway. Keanu Reeves himself, who starred in "Wick", did eventually get in touch with the production and subsequently a dream sequence in the