I saw the Matrix when it came out on video, and I was not too impressed really. I am a pretty big sci-fi fan, but it just felt like a special effects fest to me more than it felt like a good sci-fi film. It constantly felt like it was showing off. The end of it got so lame I was laughing out loud. Especially at the very end when he flies up into the screen. While I harshly criticize the first one, I had only seen it that once and just wasn't impressed, I didn't like it or hate it. It was after watching it a couple of more times that I really decided that I hated it. When the second one came out on video I saw about the first half of it and couldn't take much more (I think I walked out of the room during some retarded scene where Neo was fighting large quantities of agent Smith, that scene had me cringing so much I decided it really wasn't worth sitting through any more of it). Haven't even seen so much as a trailer for the third one, nor do I intend to.