Top 20 Action Movies of All Time

17. The Matrix

Release Date: March 31, 1999 (USA)

Plot:

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writers: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

IMDB: 8.7

Gross worldwide revenue: $466,364,845