Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features Disc two: Preload [featurette] (22 min.); Matrix Unfolds [featurette] (6 min.); Freeway Chase [featurette] (31 min.); Get me an exit [featurette] (10 min.); Making Enter the Matrix [featurette] (29 min.); The Animatrix trailer (5 min.); MTV Movie Awards (10 min.); Weblinks [requires a DVD-ROM drive and Internet access].

Director of photography, Bill Pope ; production designer, Owen Paterson ; edited by Zach Staenberg ; music composed and conducted by Don Davis ; costumes designed by Kym Barrett ; visual effects supervisor, John Gaeta ; fight choreography by Yuen Wo Ping.

Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Jada Pinkett Smith (Niobe), Gloria Foster (The Oracle), Harold Perrineau (Link), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), Harry Lennix (Commander Lock), Lambert Wilson (Merovingian), Randall Duk Kim (The Keymaker), Nona Gaye (Zee), Anthony Zerbe (Councillor Hamann).

Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Only a matter of hours separates the last human enclave on Earth from 250,000 Sentinels programmed to destroy humanity. The citizens of Zion, emboldened by Morpheus' conviction that the One will fulfill the prophecy and end the war with the Machines, invest all their hopes and expectations in Neo, who finds himself troubled by disturbing visions, searching for a correct course of action. In the quest to save the human race from extinction, greater insight into the construction of The Matrix--and Neo's pivotal role in the fate of humankind--is gained.

MPAA rating: rated R; for sci-fi violence and some sexuality.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo; television presentation aspect ratio, 1.33:1.

In English (5.1) or Français (5.1) with optional subtitles in English, Español, and Français; closed-captioned.

English dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.