The Matrix

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Summary: Spectacular
Review: The Matrix, in my opinion,is maybe the best action/sci-fi movie ever.The plot was very good,great background music,excellent acting,(especially by Fishburne and Reeves),and awesome guns and action.I suggest you rent it first,but if you like it,buy it!

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Summary: Seeing Is Believing
Review: The Matrix, my favorite movie of all time I might add, is a phenomenal film. It's a work of art. The special effects are out of this world, the story unfolds extremely well, the plot is the most innovative one ever, the script is just plain amazing, and the cinematography is superb. In short, The Matrix blows away every other movie this decade. I would give it 10 stars if I could.

I shouldn't have to discuss the plot, because by now just about everyone knows it. I will say that this plot is so amazing and so innovative, and it really makes you sit down and think. I think it's a fact, not an opinion, that the plot is the most innovative one ever written. I can't stress enough how good it is. The acting is well done as well, and the script, unfolding of the story, and special effects are all top of the crop too. I can't list all the good things I have to say about The Matrix here. I have seen this movie over and over again without growing tired of it. It has set the standard for every movie that follows it. All I can do now is give my whole hearted recommendation. If you don't own it yet, buy it now. It should be a sin not to own The Matrix.

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Summary: Excellent Eye Candy...
Review: The Matrix, the first time I viewed it, was amazing. The special effects were mind-blowing. At my friends house, watching on a DVD player, it was almost a surreal experience. And then I bought the video version. It was still great, but the non-action scenes started to get boring. Now, after the third time, I can't stand it any more. The action sequences, the special- and visual-effects, are simply stunning, the premise entertaining, the actors appealing and their acting not bad. But for some reason this movie just doesn't have much rewatchability value.

Keanu Reeves was good, Carrie-Ann Moss was gorgeous, Laurence Fishburne was fun if a little too self-absorbed, and the agents were fun, interesting characters. This is an excellent movie to rent, or to watch once in a while, but despite its amazing sequences, it lacks a certain...charm that the similar and superior Dark City had.

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Summary: Good, but underdone in some areas and overdone in others
Review: The Matrix, while having solid characters and decent special effects, lacks the depth that makes a movie good. On the surface you say a pretty good movie, however, you are always on the outside looking in. Unlike other thrillers of its genre, it fails to suck you in and keep you alert the entire movie. Also, occasionally the special effects were overdone and, truthfully, boring.

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Summary: The Matrix
Review: The Matrix, winning four oscars this year, was very well done. The special effecects were outrageous. The over-all storylines are hard to explain. Even though this movie was rated "R" {for sci-fi violence and minor language} I feel it is appororate for younger viewers. One thing though, there is a part where Ned,{Keanu Reeves} goes into a building with a trench-coat,and under it is a bunch of guns, and he ends up shooting alot,[ well duh!]. To really understand how hard this is to describe, watch it your-self.

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Summary: This is what movie going experience should be all about!!!
Review: The Matrix, without a doubt, is one of the most amazing films out to this day. While some might view it no more than a cool comic book adaptation, it is much more than that. The Matrix taps into some of the most difficult questions of existence such as pleasure vs. morality, reality vs. perception. It is a grandiose twist of the idea of dream skepticism, which aims to entertain wast audience appealing to teens as well as adults. The Matrix has already became part of our (Western) culture. I have heard many of my friends refer to the Matrix while talking about unrelated ideas. This great film will be remembered for a long time.

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Summary: Movie of the Millenium
Review: The Matrix. When anybody hears that word they would usually think of Keanu Reeves in a trench coat bending over backwards as bullets graze inches over him in slow motion, or Carrie-Ann Moss suspened in a kick in mid air while the camera spins 180 degrees around her. These two things are some of what made the greatest movie of the millenium, the Matrix. The funny thing about this movie is how I didn't have any desire to see it when it came out, it just never caught my eye. I regret every bit of that. I never saw this movie in the theater. The first time I saw was on the little six inch screen in my friends van. Although the soung was coming out of two little speakers and the screen was about 300 times smaller than that of the one in my local movie theater, I was still more immerssed, more blown away, and more impressed than I had ever been by a movie before in my whole life. Everything about it was perfect, the story was amazing, Keanu Reeves easily put on his best performance to date, and the action/kung-fu scenes just blew me away.

The story is not something I should tell, although nearly everyone has seen the movie, I bet there is still one reader out there who hasn't yet experianced the total awesomness of this movie. The story is exactly what sci-fi story should be. Science fiction is the one genre where the rules of reality cannot hold the writer back, allowing them to just let their imaginations run wild. That is exactly what the Wachowski Brothers did, they applied every element needed to make not just a great science fiction story, but an all around amazing movie.

The Matrix will be looked one of the greatest movie achievements ever. It went beyond the limits of any movie, went where no movie had gone before, the Wachowski Bros. dared to mess with our minds, and the result was amazing. You must see this movie.

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Summary: Bye bye, Jar Jar!
Review: The Matrix... what can I say? It's one of the best movies there IS. And why is it? Well likely because it turned out to be a "surprise hit". The guy who made it (sorry I don't know who) obviously wanted to create a really fun, really intense and meaningful action movie (with lots of cool effects I might add) and he definitely did so. Keanu himself said he loved it. Unlike some OTHER movies which are way too over-played and made into a really big deal for nothing, the Matrix DOESN'T suck. Buy it.

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Summary: My God, what a ... great movie!!!
Review: The Matrix... you all have at least heard of the movie, and you all know that it is known for the special effects... and the special effects are AWESOME!!!! But this movie has depth... I originally watched this film in theatres, and I was blown away by the special effects, but that was about it... the story was cool, but nothing spectacular... anyways, I watched it again tonight (well half of it anyways), and my God, this movie is totally awesome... it's more then awesome special effects, it's an awesome movie all around, one of the best sci-fi movies ever, no question... The story is very ingenious, and philosophical... I wonder how many people have actually wondered if this world was nothing more then a computer program fed to our brains, I know I have... and before the movie came out I might add... I won't get into the details of the story, cause you'll just have to see it... but the way the effects, music, and everything about the movie comes together is awesome... it all fits together perfectly... the action scenes are obviously designed to appeal to those you might not totally grasp the concept and message of the story line, but if you can appreciate the plot with the effects and action scenes, and everything else that is here, it'll just blow your mind... I turned off the tv (the movie was shown on television) and was totally blown away tonight... this is an inteligent movie, and is more then a bunch of innovative effects... if you liked the movie for the effects, and didn't really go too deep in the plot, well watch it again, and take in everything... it's an awesome movie, and one of the best ever in my opinion... oh, and another thing, I've never really been a fan of Keanu Reeves acting, but even he turns in a good performance (the others are stellar as well)... definately check this out... deserves more then 5 stars...

oh, and another thing, it's totally based around computers and that stuff, so you definately need to have some knowledge or interest in that stuff to really enjoy this movie... but still, you need to see this movie!!!! well, I've said too much... later...

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Summary: Cyberpunk-Lite (Less Thrilling and Half the Plot)
Review: The Matrix...ahh, the Matrix is to cyberpunk what Mortal Kombat was to the martial arts genre-pablum. Yes, it did have completely awesome special effects, but as we have seen time and again, special effects do not a good movie make. Unfortunately, this appears to be all that is good about this film that makes William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' look the finest of Shakespear's sonnets. It entertains, sure, but then again, so do a lot of N-64 games, as long as you don't think about it too hard. Keanu Reeves does not deserve to appear in the same scenes with the likes of Lawrence Fishburne-who single handedly steals every one they share together.

Okay, Mark, you've complained a whole lot so far, but haven't said what the Matrix is actually about. Okay, the Matrix is about this guy named Neo (Reeves) who has a McJob that he hates, but when he goes home at the end of the day, he becomes a cyber-guy and logs into America On-Line or something where he can abandon his life of quiet desperation. He also notices that the world sometimes isn't what it looks like, (and what it looks like is Quake, because everything is olive green and grey). He meets Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), who basically looks like she's undead in leather, and she wants to show him a whole new world, but first must get Neo past the sinister Agents, the leader of which played Tick in 'Priscilla-Queen of the Desert'.

After 'escaping' Neo wakes up in a black pod covered in strawberry jam with dozens of tubes feeding into his body out of something that resembles H.R. Geigar Lite. He also finds that there are millions upon millions of McPods just like his. Now we meet Morpheus (Fishburne), who out-cools Reeves at every turn, and we learn that there is a band of rebels who have escaped the Matrix-a massive immersive virtual reality system that all of humanity has been trapped in by evil robots that we created, (Geez, you'd think we would have learned not to do things like that after the Terminator thing). Now it gets dumb (er, dumber).

The Robots and the artificial intelligence that runs the planet are harvesting humans for heat so that they may continue...doing what, we're never told, but keeping humanity under wraps seems to be all they do. Now, Morpheus is convinced that Neo is the Chosen One, a cyber-messiah who has come to save all of the oblivious humans trapped in the Matrix. Forgetting of course that, if they win, they have to clothe, house and feed billions of humans who might be better off inside their pods. Morpheus trains Neo how to fight, thanks to a healthy dose of plug-in skill chips that instantly teach martial arts and weapons skills to anyone. The worst part about the film is the betrayal. In much the same way as the Secret Service agent who sold out the President in 'Airforce One' made no sense, the betrayal in the Matrix leaves the viewer going 'Huh! Where did that come from! " Because in order to enter the Matrix, one must be supervised and plugged in-things that can't be done on one's own. He will sell out Morpheus so that he may be plugged back into the Matrix-all because he's tired of living on the crummy submarine and eating reonstituted slop.

The Matrix is slick, and it does have its moments, but the story leaves a great deal to be desired. I would like to say the action is fast paced, but it isn't because every action scene is shot in slow motion-from NRA gun nut romp through the lobby of an office tower where the Agents are hold Morpheus to the end sequences within the subway, the break neck action scenes seem to last forever, and it gets tedious. It is cookie-cutter entertainment in much the same way that 'Independence Day' was-it's great as long as you don't think about it too hard. Of the three blockbuster movies of 1999-The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, and The Mummy, The Mummy is the best pick of the bunch. If you want to discover good cyberpunk, read Neuromancer or Islands in the Net.