Join Two Idiots and a Dog as they discuss the movie that brought us bullet time, and the obsession with action heroes wearing black trench coats and sunglasses. Released in 1999 The Matrix forever changed the action movie industry and spawned countless attempts to copy its success. Starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving, along with a pretty stellar supporting cast, lots of guns, and mind-bending (for the era) special effects, The Matrix cemented itself firmly in the pop-culture zeitgeist.