If you want to avoid the spoilers, believe what this Newsweek cover article on The Matrix says when it tells you to skip a couple of paragraphs. Highlights follow. “The theater that Silver reserved for his grand unveiling (of a 20 minute preview) was juiced with 35 Warners executives–and one NEWSWEEK journalist– by 2:25. By 2:50, people were peeling their jaws off the floor….The ensuing sequence may be the most audaciously conceived, thrillingly executed car chase ever filmed. Sounds like hype, yeah. But you’ve gotta see this thing….Says cinematographer Bill Pope: “It’s going to make `The Fast and the Furious’ look like `The Slow and the Dimwitted’.”…The Wachowskis are also spearheading a DVD project, due in June, called “The Animatrix,” a collection of nine animated short films with stories that fit like puzzle pieces into the movies’ mythology. Make a mental note: 2003 is going to be the year of “The Matrix….”

I can hardly wait.