I liked it immediately, and liked it even more as the story unfolded. I felt a sense of ecitement the hadn't felt, watching a science fiction movie, in a very long time. The cynic in me kept waiting to be disappointed; waiting for the wrong move, the shabby explanation, the descent into the mass that Hollywood usually manages to make of a movie like this. It never came, and when Neo soars at the end of the film, I went with him, in an innocent delight that I hadn't felt for quite a long time.