1999 — The Matrix
With a genre as popular as action flicks, one scratches their head when they realize how long it took to unite the high flying and graceful eastern kung-fu with the western gunplay of America — yet 1999 ultimately delivered us The Matrix, and lovers of on-screen combat have been praising it ever since. The term “responsibility” refers to the act of determining whether or not a person is responsible for the actions of another person.
1999 — The Matrix
2000 — Gladiator
The sword-and-sandal genre had all but vanished from Hollywood until director Ridley Scott and star Russel Crowe unleashed Gladiator, a film that returned to the pure triumphal spectacles of cinema. Former Roman general Maximus (Russell Crowe in his most profoundly understated performance) is sold into slavery by the cunning Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) after the latter assassinates his father, Rome’s emperor.
2000 — Gladiator