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Summary: Complicated nonsence - worst film ever !!!
Review: In my mind the matrix is the worst film that i know and have seen. For starters it was too long with too much information and the storline i dont understand. I wish i hadnt spent my hard earned cash renting the damm thing. The special effects were too special and so made the film seem fake and toke away any thought that it might have been any good. Worst of all though was the actors who were abysmal in their roles. You might as well have Keano Reeves (aka NEO) as an animated character, hes so awful in this role. Agent Smith is also as bad, but lucky for him he has actually done some decent acting before. Matrix is terrible. Matrix is the most boring, complicated, terrible and awful film ever. Plain and simple - The Matrix 1,2 + 3 are the 3 worst films on the planet, full stop!!!!!!
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Summary: Video Game
Review: I really enjoyed the first Matrix movie, but this one was disappointing. There were plenty of action scenes, but they seemed very repetitive, except for the freeway chase, which was good, as well as the motorcycle chase downtown. It would have helped, too, if the audience had been given just a little bit of review with some plot device that wasn't too cumbersome. It took a little too long to get back into the world of the matrix. The direction was only adequate, the script less than adequate, and the acting very inconsistent. I hope the next Matrix movie is a step up from this one.
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Summary: Absolute Rubbish
Review: Destroys many of the great ideas set forth in the first installment. Definitely a "Don't watch", both from a philosophical and from an Entertainment point of view.
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Summary: Yes, another bad Review for "Reloaded".
Review: A movie like this is another example of why second parts shouldn't be made. All the innovation, freshness, and smart film making of the original Matrix is gone here. The Wachowski Brothers (Larry and Andy), had all the money they could ask to do The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, this was the first mistake. Why? Simple, so much money atrophies the brain, imagination is the most important thing in writing any story, and so it is indispensable for script writing, and most important, in writing any smart script for a much anticipated sequel, what the brothers end up doing is a series of fights tie up with something resembling a script, or should I say, an essay of an script. The Matrix outstanding original story line was something that couldn't be surpassed so easily, such a problem required hard thinking and commitment, and most importantly, approaching the script with a new and different perspective in order to write not a more original story, but a intelligent one, they miss this big time, instead they delivered what pop culture movies care the most, Action Sequences, its all down hill from here, good scripts are essentially important in film making, if you don't have a good story to tell, having good actors, accurate direction, and great visual effects won't safe your movie.
In fact, every thing goes right until the characters open their mouth to say sh.... The Morpheus Zion speech is the lowest point of 2003 movie season (and I haven't yet seen Legally Blonde II, and I won't intend to). This is particularly sad, because Morpheus was the most interesting character in the first Matrix, but in Reloaded he is just ridiculous. (I don't understand how the directors wrote this atrocity and manage to write the Architect's speech, a fairly goof piece of writing). In the first film, the actors were acceptably fit in their characters (don't get me wrong, there was no Shakespearian acting in The Matrix), here they are unexpressive masks, and where are the nude scenes with Monica Bellucci (Persephone), the ones that really mattered, huh? (Monica is one of my favorite actresses), instead you get flat Carrie Ann Moss in some mindless boring nude scenes inserted somewhere in a Rave Party (shame on the editor, that scene will cost you the Oscar, Zach Staenberg).
About the action scenes, yes, they are great, Yuen Wo Ping came back for Reloaded and Revolutions, again his work is excellent (as always), the Smith's fight with Neo, and the car chase scene are really good, but you will find your self thinking: this is great, but I don't feel anything, this is because of the lack of story and the zero characters. Every time Neo is flying, you know he will safe someone (old Hollywood style, oohhh yeah), so there is no emotion attached for the characters been harm, and when Trinity is about to die, well, bet with some fool about is she going to die or not?, that way you will get back the money you dismissed to see this piece of sh...(the Merovingian's Castle fight can cause you a coma, so be prepared).
John Gaeta (the Gaeta Force) commands a great visual effects work, but it repeats itself (hardly there is anything new, only an enhanced Bullet Time technique). The cheap philosophy here is blown up an exercise to impress the audiences, trying at the same time to bring their film to some intellectual level, not happening here of course. Don Davis improved his music for Reloaded, but the choices for the songs are unfortunate. The direction is O.K (I guess), in terms of the pace, the ending, Why?, To be continued? (see how money atrophies the brain). So, if you are Larry Wachowski saying: Woooooowwwww man, I dare anyone, this is like the most com-complex movie ever, you better think again. I did laughed at the Merovingian's Wiping you're a... with silk line, that was a high point of the movie (how sad is that). Fortunately, the Matrix Revolutions has a little something more than Reloaded, so watch it anyway, even with the bad taste of the this film .
To finish with, the DVD (being this a big studio movie), has a lot of really good extras, the sound is great (Dolby Digital 5.1), the transfer is first class, but this only enhances the DVD value, not the movie quality. The choice here is to rent or buy the Animatrix, you will be more pleased.
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Summary: Suspend your disbelief
Review: The Matrix Trilogy. In a way you could say it wanted to be the "Star Wars" trilogy of the 21st century, yet it won't be. Why? Well, personally I found all three films entertaining, as long as you could suspend your disbelief and only watched them once. Perhaps the first film raised people's expectations too much, and it was a dystopian view of a world ruled by machines (like Terminator), though with the spin of high technology and virtual reality. Yet forget any deep analysis it is, more-or-less, action throughout. The second film picks up where the first began, continues the action and special effects and fills time for the third film to come around, which wraps it all up, with a positive, though slightly ambiguous ending for humanity. In a way, I feel the thing that hurt the trilogy wasn't so much the films (no worse than Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi when compared to Star Wars, really), it's just their moment in the public imagination ended after the first film. Notably, perhaps, it is a reworking of an Oxford Professors work whose dramatization will be remembered fifty years after being conceived. Now surely the idea of that, in these times of Hi Tech, would be Fantasy/ Science Fiction.
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Summary: Live Action Anime
Review: I think too many people have the wrong idea about the series. The directers of the Matrix trilogy are big anime buffs. They set out to make the worlds best live action anime movie. Well, I think they did just that. You just have to keep in mind that anime movies take awhile to unfold. They usually come in pieces. They start off with the story to let people know whats up. Then they let loose the action, usually the main character going full force in some struggle for a specifice goal, Reloaded is just that. It consists of a whole lot of action in a way no one has ever seen it in real life. You also have to remember that its not a stand alone. Your lost without the last half and you don't get anything without the first one. In most anime series near the end the emotions are let loose because of the hard struggle they just finished off, this gives the characters a human emotional feel. Last the story comes to a conclusion. I'm sure the last movie does just that. Many people don't see the beauty of japanese anime, but the Matrix directers did and I think they did a wonderful job of bringing it to life.
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Summary: Absolute load of rubbish - what a let down
Review: After the brilliance of "The Matrix" I was terribly disappointed with this lame cash-in. Every part of this movie was poor - the acting is shameful, the directing and editing is very, very poor - I got so bored that I had to force myself to actually stay in the theatre, the plot was awful, and ruined the brilliance of the first film's storyline, and the action sequences and special effects have not moved on at all since 1999.This movie just stinks basically - you sit there and can't wait for the ending to come, it just seems to drag on and on with loads of boring rubbish and shoddy effects shots. It is so bad that I am not even going to rent the third film or see it at the movies - the film-makers and studio do not deserve it. Compare this to the stunning brilliance of the Lord of the Rings movies and it looks even worse. While Reloaded has the Burly Brawl, The Two Towers completely embarasses it with the Helms Deep battle sequence. And while the much longer Two Towers flies through while you are watching it, Revolutions is almost painful to watch. It would be more fun to rub your back over a giant cheese grater - and certainly less painful. In short, don't buy this DVD, don't watch any of the films at the movies - simply purchase the original Matrix on DVD and be done with this shambling, steaming load of crap.
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Summary: It makes no sense at all
Review: For a movie to work, even a special effects extravaganza, there has to be some minimal plot that hangs together. This series is called after the "Matrix". But considering what's going on in the "real world", what's so important about that? I mean, it's just suppose to be a film story to keep the human "batteries" occupied (never mind if that makes any sense), but why is it necessary for the free humans to enter there and fight battles with other simulations? It's all happening inside some computer, so who cares? Why not fight in the real world, sabotage the equipment? Oh yes, one reason is to wake up humans, who presumably are then flushed and picked up by the free humans, like Neo. OK, but once the machines figured that out, why don't they stop flushing? Why not kill the awakened humans so they don't join the army? They could hardly get free of the machines in their little cells, all tubed up and such. And then we have the ending of the first film, where Neo turns into superman, with the intent of waking up humanity, presumably by demonstrating that the Matrix is a fiction. Probably the best place to do that would be on the Leno show, but at least you would think that rocketing down mainstreet so fast that glass gets pulled out of buildings would alert the populace that something weird was going on. But aside from one passer-by who drops her groceries, and a couple of cops, no one seems to notice at all. Where's the press? It's like in the first film after the big helicopter explosion - listen for emergency vehicle sirens. Nothing. If you're going to setup a world, it at least has to abide by its own rules. I can suspend belief for only so long, and the bottom line is that I grew so disgusted with this nonsense that I quit half way through. Guess I'll never find out what happens, but I don't care anymore, for the characters, the world, or for these supposedly wizard filmakers, who need to go back to school.
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Summary: IT'S....OKAY
Review: Matrix Reloaded? Well about all that the reloading seems to involve here is introducing the audience to a couple of new characters, giving Neo some more powers, throwing in some kick-ass action scene, notes from philosphy 101, and have it all lined up for M.Revolutions. thats about all thats here folks. Its pretty obvious all the Wachowski's cared about was creating a enough special effects to wow people into theatres instead of actually taking this movie somewhere. But i'd watch it again cause it does make a good action movie.
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Summary: Reloaded and firing blanks.
Review: What happend? The first Matrix was such a good/original movie and I thought the 2nd film would totally live up to the first. I was totally wrong not to mention letdown. In the years since the first everyone has been able to pull off the Matrix type stunts from movies like Scary Movie to video games like Max Payne. Reloaded was supposed to take it a step higher and blwo our minds again with hard to pull off fight scenes like we've never seen before. Sadly the fights were re-hashed from the first film and the movie suffered from wooden dialouge and way too much cgi. This movie seemed like it also suffered from the post Columbine sindrome. The first was widley debated as holding a impact on that tragedy (as was everything else) and while the first one seemed much more violent this one's violence was more cartoon-ish. Sure some of the special effects in this movie are great (the car chase scene is cool but not mind blowing and like most fight scenes were featured in the trailers). The acting is a huge step down. Keanau (who has never been able to act though was decent in the first except for a little gem called The Gift, which he's great in) really makes this film almost unwatchable (as does the laughable rave scene and the so called deep but ever so boring plot and dialouge that seems to get much more screen time than the action does). I have yet to see Revolutions and from the looks of it they wasted alot more money on cheep looking CGI and once again didn't break any new ground with the action. The first movie deserved the hype for those thinking that Reloaded is a good movie probably are walking around their local malls every weekend dressed up like Neo and his gang thinking they are cool and different yet they come off looking as a joke and are nothing new nor are they anywhere near being original
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