whoa. the matrix changes everything. you have the embrace of eastern cinema into western cannon. and you ve got them making their actors do the stunts themselves. kiaeanu reeves had done speed and point break but this is a different level of action star. this was six months of training that every actor had to go through. one of the things that you get when you re having the actors do their own stunts, you can film closeups of the face while a punch is being taken, while a punch is being thrown. the action itself becomes storytelling.