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 Reeves During the early 1990s, Reeves started to break out of his teen-film period. He appeared in high-budget action films like "Point Break," for which he won MTV's "Most Desirable Male" award in 1992. He was involved in various lower-budget independent films, including the well-received 1991 film, "My Own Private Idaho" with River Phoenix. In 1992, he played Jonathan Harker in the Francis Ford Coppola-directed blockbuster "Bram Stoker's Dracula". In 1994, Reeves's career reached a new high as a result of his starring role in the action film "Speed." His casting in the film was controversial, since, except for "Point Break",