Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

What makes the Wachowskis' 1999 film, The Matrix, an action film isn't just its exhilarating visual effects and the innovative "bullet time" that loaned the audience a virtual eye to the world of the Matrix, where the laws of physics can be bent or broken. Nor is it just the fighting sequences of kung fu and the impossible acrobatics of a hero "plugged-in". The Matrix is an action film because its actions speak louder than its words. It is a film where adventurous narrative and visual spectacle meet, unapologetically, hand in hand. The film, through action, reveals just as much story, if not more, as through characterization or dialogue. This is best summarized in the words of the great Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), as he explains to Neo (Keanu Reeves), and consequently, the audience: "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Perhaps it is because the story in The Matrix is one best understood in action, as it dwells into territories of sci-fi genre (e.g. breaking physical limitations through psychological liberation). There is no better way to explain how a person, who is liberated from the Matrix, can jump from one building to the next than to show it. Furthermore, action in The Matrix can be seen as the physical display of its story's progression. The various set piece action sequences throughout the film mark the development of the protagonist in terms of his psychological growth by coming to terms with the Matrix and his destiny, which all manifests themselves in physical action. For example, early on in the film, when Neo,