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Summary: My favorite sci-fi movie
Review: Although the plot is a bit trite ("the one"), this is a wonderful film. The SFX and the revelation regarding "what is the Matrix?" are alone enough to make this a must own.
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Summary: different
Review: I know many love this movie, but i don't necessarily like it, although i don't hate it, i mean the action sequence involving Keanu Reeves & Carrie Ann Moss when they enter the simulation to rescue Morphius is really,really impressive, as is many other action sequences, but DID this movie have to have sooooooo many DARK settings, I understand the supposed real world was supposed to be dark, but if our computer-simulated fake real world was a hoax why would it be so dark, definately not the world we live in. i probably would have liked this film better if it showed more of our reality, day to day life that we live in, but it dosen't appear as such, maybe i am missing somthing here, i just think it could have been better, great action, but poor day to day life reality.
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Summary: awesome action
Review: this movie rocked. i love the special and visual effects plus the action. this is just an movie everyone liked. my favorite scveme are when neo and morpheus are practicing kung fu. i also like the stills when there fighting and it like pauses. this movies a must have for all action and special effects lovers.
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Summary: Prodding the brain...
Review: The Matrix is one of the most spectacular Sci Fi Movies of the 20th Century. Not totally originally, but it combines elements of so many previous Sci Fi flicks that it's more like a tribute to those previous stories. It may not be totally original, but the combination of aspects have never been more originally executed. The use of the wires during fight scenes and the rotating angles (bullet speed as they call it) give the movie a visual sense of a created world, something that is not real and can be manipulated. The movie takes place somewhere in the future, opening with a glimpse of the life of Neo (Reeves in a role he was most likely born to play), a computer programmer working for a large corporation who does hacker work in his off time. After being discovered for his illegal extracurricular activity, Neo is intercepted by a mysterious woman, Trinity (the striking Carrie-Anne Moss) who claims to know what or actually who, he is looking for; Morpheous, a charismatic mystery man played by Fishbourne, who gives a strong leader performance. Morpheous believes Neo is the coming messiah who will save mankind, but from what? That is where the question, 'What is the Matrix?' comes in. Explaining it takes a few different scenes and although it's a fairly simple concept, the motivations behind it all take a little more length in detail. As the questions unfold, Neo starts to realize his destiny and the action escalates as the movie moves on. The inclusion of high energy martial arts fighting scenes are so ingeniously integrated into the movie as well as other aspects of action, that you have to applaud the writers and directors. With this concept, you could put almost anything into this story line. To state anymore may ruin the plot but simply put, Matrix makes you wonder about your own world. The disturbing questions it brings to the surface make you question the validity of your own existence, and that is where the most frightening aspects of The Matrix lie. Part Science Fiction, part twilight zone, part action movie and part big-brother paranoia propaganda, The Matrix suggests that we should question everything around us and supplement our minds with things that are outside the realm of what we accept as everyday thinking. Packed with extra features for the DVD player as well as the DVD ROM for your PC, this is definitely worth the money. No one can be told what The Matrix is, you have to see it, so buy the DVD and see for yourself.
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Summary: Simply the Best Movie Ever Made.
Review: This movie is a blue print of what sci-fi movies will look like in the future. With breathtaking fight choreagraphies and eye-popping special effects, there's simply no other movie like it. This movie had such a deep impact on the Hollywood movie industry that since this many TV shows (Dark Angel for example), movies (The One for example) and even video games (Max Payne for example) were all inspired from The Matrix. In retrospec, the Matrix took a "low-budget" HongKong martial arts movie combined it with the coolest computer generated special effects and outstanding cinematography and made it into a movie on which every other martial-arts/sci-fi movie will be compared too.
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Summary: good but not great
Review: With all the good reviews spreading around the internet about The Matrix, it's almost impossible not to think that it's a good buy. (If you haven't seen it) Almost everybody gives it 5 stars, saying that it has ground-breaking special effects and great action. For the most part they're right.The Matrix does have very good special effects and great action sequences. It also took bigger steps to effective use of slow motion action. So all in all: Action fans will like this a lot. But the thing that really kills what could've been one of the greatest action movies was this: the plot. The part of the plot that included the explanation of the matrix was pretty good, but besides from that, it's taken right out of a comic book. People have special powers. Man learns that he has special powers. Rescues friend his friend and gets the girl while battling robots. As you can see, the plot is anything but fresh. Also, it's like the movie never ends. Near the end of the movie, (if you haven't seen the movie, don't read this. It gives away the ending) their friend gets captured by the bad guys. His friends go out and rescue him. After a huge gunfight in the building where their friend is being held and on the roof of that same building, you would think that the movie was over. Nope. Then they get in a helicoptor and shoot in the building and then they get their friend out. Then the helicoptor crashes and one of the good guys barely makes it out alive. So now, all three are united and the rescue was a success. But after that, there's another gunfight and kung fu battle in a train station. After that, the hero runs from the bad guy. There is a chase through the streets. Then somehow, they end up in a building. The chase continues. Now right about now I was getting tired of the movie. It could've ended many other places, (the best place would've been the subway station) but no. It had to go on. Then the hero gets killed. Whew, I thought. End of the movie. But then he comes back alive and gets in a fight with the bad guys. And then finally, the movie ends. So all in all, it has great special effects and non stop action, but the plot isn't that great and the movie just gets tiresome. Only 12 year olds with an attention span of .000000000001 seconds could watch this whole movie in one sitting and not see any flaws.
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Summary: Matrix Is An Innovative Cinematic Masterpiece
Review: The Matrix defies all barriers in cinematic moviemaking. I'm not saying that the acting is simply superb and is Oscar worthy but the special effects are what all the buzz is about. The directors Larry and Andy Wachowski skillfully use the infamous "bullet time." That's when a bullet is shot, time seems to be frozen in individual frames, giving the person being shot at a whole lot of time to dodge bullets. Also, when every karate move is shot, they are made into a piece of art.
The film is about "the Matrix" a computer generated fantasy that our regular world is living in. I don't know if this has any spiritual meaning. A computer hacker junky (Keanu Reeves) is given the opportunity to look at the thing he's been searching for forever the real world. One day, he finds a message on his computer. It says to follow the white rabbit. He does, following a girl with a tattoo, to a club. There he meets Trinity (brilliantly played by Carrie Anne Moss) a girl who will tell "Mr. Anderson" the secrets of the Matrix. One event leads into another. Now, "Mr. Anderson" is Neo of a group of sort of rebels trying to outwit the agents. The agents are a group of three, part of an alien race who took over the Earth a long time ago. Agent Smith, in particular, seems the most bloodthirsty and has a taste for vengeance. The band of rebels include Morpheous, the wise leader and father figure. Then there's Mouse, Cypher, Tank, Dozer, and two others, whose names I seemed to have forgotten. Their mission is to try and show others the real world. Not the Matrix but the world from real eyes. The Matrix II: Reloaded is the sequel. Be prepared for an eye dazzler.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: What can I say about this film? It's a classic. And, just as classics go-everybody talks about how good it is but don't really read it or watch it.
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Summary: EXCELENTE PELICULA CON UN GRAN MENSAJE
Review: Primera pelicula que veo en mi vida donde la violencia no me molesta. Me encantó el mensaje de la película, aunque los efectos especiales son espectaculares, el mensaje para mi fue esencial. Recomendada ampliamente!
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Summary: A Movie Based More on Reality Than Not
Review: This is a movie packed with action, suspense, special effects, and a great storyline that basically hasn't been told before. Plus it has a spiritual undertone which makes it a movie I can recommend to my Chrisitian friends. For an R: rated movie, is has a welcome lack of distracting sex and foul language. The movie basically parallels the reality that we are spiritual beings "plugged" into a physical world. What we see happening around is temporal and might as well not exist. All the passions are worldy pursuits and distractions from what is really going on in the spiritual dimension. What is really happening in the spiritual realm is scary...we often don't even what to know. We would rather live inside the Matrix and take the bittersweet fantasy than deal with the sobering reality that we are eternal beings and that our eternal destiny hangs on what happens in our mortal, physical lives. Even if you were killed in the fantasy world of the Matrix, you're real person died too, much like how if you die in your physical life without knowing your Saviour, you die in the spiritual world. The development of Neo's (the lead character who basically plays the "Savior") abilities and skills mimic the development of faith in our lives and our ability to see the spiritual and not the physical. By building his faith, he was eventually able to takes his eyes off what he was seeing and see behind it. He then began to defy the rules becuase he was no longer bound by it. Jesus said that if we had the faith the size of a mustard seed we could say to the mountain, "throw yourself in the sea" and it would happen. This is essentially what Neo is learning. Challenge yourself to see something deeper than just a great technical presentation of special effects in a suspenseful thrilling science fiction film and you will enjoy another dimension that will keep you coming back to watch this film again and again. Maybe you will even be able to challenge yourself and be able to take the RED pill and become a spiritually aware person, realizing your need for the truth that comes from only one place...the Creator of the Universe.
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