16 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Matrix Trilogy

11. Keanu Reeves' "Wooden" Acting Totally Works

Keanu Reeves is frequently criticised for being a "wooden" actor, and though he's turned in a number of indifferent roles over his career, he has also managed to make his stoic approach to performance work wonders now and then. The character of Neo is his most successful example, taking someone who is, at the start of the story, a shell of a man, a husk largely confined to sitting in front of his computer inside his apartment, and so his emotional withdrawal (or wooden acting, as some perceive it) is totally appropriate. Though the fact that Neo doesn't become much livelier and more human in Zion over the course of the movies is an argument against the fact that Reeves intentionally played it this way, to call Reeves' performance in the trilogy bad really isn't very fair. For the cipher of a human being he's meant to be inside The Matrix prior to being woken up, it totally fits.