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Summary: Sci Fi?
Review: Yea yea no one like Keanu Reeves. I dont know why but everyone like this movie but hates him. Well he seems to fit this movie like a glove but I do admit Im sick of his same old acting technique. Its a sci fi thriller ment to jar reality as we know it (THE MATRIX HAS YOU). The only thing I really didnt like about this movie was the end...it made Keanu Reeves into a godlike honkie from Tibet (metaphorically). Oh well watch it Im sure you'll like it.
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Summary: 1727 th review - who will ever read this!
Review: Yeah! They are all right! This movie is crazy, astounding, perfect, superboosted as perfectly balanced. Keanu Reeves is the One. Laurence Fishburne is the Guide. Carrie-Anne Moss is an awesome kind of Trinity. You need it.
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Summary: Please, is there anybody out there who owns THIS edition?
Review: Yeah, I know this movie is great, as well as the DVD edition, but I would really like it if somebody who owns this collector's set would share his/her thoughts on the extras (not the DVD extras, but the lobby cards et al, and specially the book).Thanks! :-)
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Summary: cool, however...
Review: Yeah, like the other 1,500 people who reviewed it, I thought the film was cool; especially the philosophical issues it raised. HOWEVER, this WAS sadly another American film that completely perpetuated the glorification of gratuitous violence. Yes, the "matrix" and hackers and all is VERY cool, but walking through buildings killing as many security guards as you can find is NOT cool. Can anybody say "Columbine"?
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Summary: Techno Cool!
Review: Yeah, yeah, everyone has asked himself, usually as a child, whether life is just a dream, but this movie takes this banal concept and runs straight up walls with it! Breathtaking scenes and unbelievable special effects give this movie gloss and the coolest look of any movie in recent memory. There's a huge reason why everyone buys this movie when they buy their first DVD player: it screams to be viewed in surround sound and crisp images. And if the special effects reviews don't sway you, the acting will. These actors LIVE techno cool, in their full-length leather coats and sunglasses, even the shocking way they appear after they "go down the rabbit hole." They inhabit their characters in ways few action movie actors bother to do. You MUST see this - and you'll want to see it more than once, a good reason to make this a purchase and not rent it. Although the concept and look may be too weird for the more conventional viewer, everyone talks about this movie. You'd better see it just so you can join the conversation.
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Summary: A mixed bag, great story, lousy ending.
Review: Yeah, yeah, it "rocked", but there were a few plot holes, and the end was pretty weak. Rather than making it a "love story" type ending, the Trinity character and her affection could have brought resolution to the story, with more emphasis on helping "the One" free his mind and over come the parameters of the Matrix instead of.. well, you know, typical hollywood garbage. If you suspend disbelief and don't actively search for fault, a pretty entertaining piece of work that deserves the box office response it got. Visually stunning, with what I thought were pretty much seamless special affects, it did have it's moments of thought provocation. To some of the previous posters, the colors or hues of the film were purposefully done, to differentiate between the "real" world and the matrix. But I loved the DVD. A great example to "show off" the "not haves" or "tapeheads' the way of the future. A better than decent transfer, loads of extra material, and great behind the scenes footage, intellegently done, with the white rabbit and red pill options. A great buy for an example (not the absolute best, but pretty darn good) for the technical aspects of DVD, a must buy for sci-fi, and techno freaks, a definite rent for a Saturday night action fix.
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Summary: One of the Worst movies ever!
Review: Yes the matrix has great special effects wow! That does not make the movie and either does ripping off Japan/China martial arts films. The basis of the story was good but the acting stunk and how about the costumes. If I were trying to keep a low profile I would not be out wearin all black leather and drive a pimed out continential. It also contained some scenes that were totally irrelivent to the movie i.e the scene with the oracle?? Was the head men in black supposed to be funny? This movie is a perfect example of where movies are going and it looks grim!
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Summary: The DVD extras are worth the price of admission
Review: Yes the movie's cool - I speak for the DVD "extras," which are numerous and imaginative. As you watch the film a WHITE RABBIT will appear that you can "follow" to a look behind the scene you are watching - it takes you there, shows you how they did it, then brings you back to the film which continues on. Plenty other cool features too. My only COMPLAINT: the audio commentary is self-congratulatory and "didn't we make a cool movie?" more than informative. Overall though, the highlight of my DVD collection.
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Summary: The extra goodies on the DVD are better than the movie.
Review: Yes they get points for the first people to do the particular special effects. Yes I like Keanu Reeves. However he was better in Little Buddha (1994) ASIN: 6305428360. And their little trick with the pills reflecting off the glasses was good. They have rehashed stories. It is a formula movie. Right out of the outerlimits among others. All this virtual stuff has been around for ages. This is just a pure shoot-em-up entertainment movie. It is not a break through anything movie and if you go for popcorn you will not have missed the plot.
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Summary: Only an idiot would say this was revolutionary
Review: Yes yes this movie was execellent, the first time. Then I watched it again, after getting it on dvd and almost returned it. Maybe its just me but Keanu Reeves can't act for nothing. And what is it with people and bullet time? Everyone says its so new and has never been done before. Well, I hate to break it to you all, but it has. Pick ANY movie directed by John Woo, and while you won't get as much bullet time, you will get some. To give a more obvious example, the movie IRON MONKEY that was chorieagraphed by the same people, and had as much bullet time as the matrix, well that movie was made and released in China 5 years before this movie was made. The story is also kinda hard to follow the first time. You will need to see it at least twice.(that is not a bad thing) One thing I will say that I like about this movie are the general special effects. And all 3 actors who play the agents do a great job. There is also this extreamly pathetic love story, that probably would have made the movie much better had it not been there. The special features of the DVD are, well....not so special. Its besically the Wachowski brothers talking about how they think they no it all. The musical score on the other hand is really cool. Don't be fooled by how everyone says this movie changed the way movies are made. If it changed anything, it changed the fact that we don't need big time famous actors to make a decent movie, just a lot of stuff blowing up and lots and lots of special effects. I mean, I don't even think Trinity looks that pritty. If you want this movie, go ahead and get it. But rent it once or twice first and you probably wont be watching it again.
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