The film turned him, along with Carrie-Ann Moss and Laurence Fishburne, into kung-fu badasses in a digital world which spawned a pair of pretty, if utterly incomprehensible, sequels.
The Matrix was a movie that seemingly came out of nowhere in 1999.
“Whoa” moment notwithstanding, The Matrix went a long way to helping to erase that particular view.
While those films have gone on to define these actors, it’s now obvious from this image via Twitter just how long it has really been.