THE MATRIX (1999)
The Wachowski brothers reignited a nation's love for martial arts with this pivotal action flick, which found Keanu Reeves' Neo discovering that the world he knows is a computer-controlled lie — but a lie he can take advantage of. In a flash, he ''downloads'' everything he needs to know about kung fu. The Wachowskis brought in storied Hong Kong fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping to train his cast in the rigors of ''wire-fu'' and it paid off with a genre-defying blockbuster.
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