Short of "Star Wars" and "Star Trek," you'd be hard-pressed to find a science fiction franchise of the modern era more influential than "The Matrix." Did the Wachowskis' 1999 magnum opus take major ...

A lot has changed since "The Matrix" bowed in 1999. Its high-leaping, time-suspending fight scenes have been copied innumerable times, and the entire culture of cyberpromise that birthed the project ...