Just as one generation of hormonally active boys were once mesmerized by the white-bikinied “Honey” Ryder (Ursula Andress) emerging from the surf in Dr. No, another was equally entranced by the agreeably form-fitting black vinyl costume of The Matrix’s Trinity (played in all three movies by Carrie-Ann Moss). She opens the movie — indeed, the entire trilogy — in the crackling first set piece, in which she quickly takes out a group of police officers brought in to apprehend her in a dark and dingy hotel room. The all-too-brief fight — presented via the then-revolutionary visual magic of “bullet time” — and her thrilling escape from pursuing Agents (that ends with a graceful dive through a window and a tuck-and-roll down a set of stairs) let audiences know that she is more than the equal of most men — and worthy of Neo’s heart.
INTERESTING FACT: Six years before the theatrical release of The Matrix, Moss starred in a short-lived TV series, also dealing with alternate realities, called…The Matrix.
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