The Matrix by Andy & Lana Wachowski

The Matrix is a sci-fi, action movie that is about a man who lives a double life and later told he lives in a world where humans are in a world called 'the matrix' and machines are in control. He escapes the 'matrix' and joins Morpheus, captain of a ship in the conquest of defeating the Matrix. The movie has some good special/visual effects considering the time it was released where computers were not that advanced at creating realistic effects.

 This is a screenshot of a computer generated fire explosion in the building during an action scene in The Matrix, this movie was released in 1999 so this scene helps to show what the computers could produce at that time. Though generally the special effects in this movie helped pioneer other movies to using special effects in their films and helped also push boundaries, compared to today this computer generated fire would look more realistic.

This another special effect used when Neo was dodging bullets, the use of showing the bullet trails help to emphasise Neo's speed at dodging them. In today's technology, the bullet trails would probably not be used, but based in this situation the director wanted to show the best possible way to translate to the audience Neo's abilities.

Here, I shall talk about the lighting in this film, the main colours displayed in this scene is a green tone mixed with black for shadows. The lighting here has been made to be very dim, dark and dungy, this could be to emphasise the abandoned rail station platform. 

Extra facts:

Colin Grant, one of the few Visual effects staff that worked on this film, has worked on other movies such as The Fifth Element & X-Men 2, which all have the theme action, sci-fi & adventure in common. 

Dane A. Davis is an employee that worked in the sound department in the movie, he also worked on the other 2 Matrix sequels.