But they rarely stick the landing. Bound, without any special effects, is a better movie than anything they've made after The Matrix.

The only reason those first movies worked was that those movies had great scripts and in the case of the first Matrix movie, they had worked on the idea for that movie for over eight years. They had worked out all of the details and the bells and whistles to pull those movies off.

Every other movie has been a muddied mix of eye candy and plot lines that are impossible to follow, either because of their complicated nature or lack of compelling interest.

Grand, ambitious ideas don't translate for modern day audiences. They really ought to have been born 10 years earlier, because studios would spend money on crazy ideas for the sake for art. Now, not so much.