Whoa… I know Kung-Fu. - Neo

Yes, he does know the brutal, though elegant art of kung-fu fighting, and loads of other martial arts, but how did he learn it? It was courtesy of the digital power of The Matrix.

Released in 1992, this incredible sci-fi film changed everything in Hollywood - from the audiences expectations of what action movies could be - to the stuntmen and producers realizing they had to keep up and up the ante from what this landmark filmed had achieved. But what of the real possibility of us living in a Matrix - or a simulated reality? C’mon. Let’s talk loving and living in The Matrix.

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