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Summary: Check it out
Review: While this movie isn't for everyone, it's definately worth it for anyone who makes time to check it out. This movie twists your perception of reality until you can't quite remember whether up is down or reality is what we know. While some of the scenes are a bit too violent, the special effects in them make up for it. It's not good for an impressionable audience because of the content, so don't just let your kids go out and rent it before you've seen it. This is one of my #1 all time favorite movies, and I'm not big into sci-fi (I didn't like "Blade Runner" all that much). I love it and I can't wait to see it again (hopefully I'll get a copy for Chrsitmas! ). Finally, whoever said that this movie influenced the whole Columbine disaster obviously didn't see the movie because the big black trench coats? Only in one scene and not that big a deal. I would've forgotten what they were wearing if no one had made it into a national issue!
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Summary: One of the greatest movies ever!
Review: While you wait for the sequels to come out in May and November, this movie is just what you need to see to understand before you see the sequels.This is the modern masterpiece that changed Sci-fi cinema forever and deserved to get the acadamy award for best visual effects, the acting is just perfect and everything in this movie is just a perfect masterpiece for every Sci-fi lover's collection.
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Summary: The Ultimate Sci-Fi...
Review: Whoa! This movie blew me away! Great story, breaking special effects, great music, and great acting make this movie a pure movie gem! Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving bring a great story to breathtaking heights! Don't even sample first. Just BUY! "I'm not going to tell you what is going to happen. I didn't come here to tell you what happens next. That's for you to find out."
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Summary: Surreal atmosphere leads the way.
Review: Winner of two Academy Awards, The Matrix is a perfect ensemble of cast, effects (visual and sound), and story. Keanu Reeves plays Neo, an ordinary human living an ordinary life until he finds out that the life he is living is nowhere near what he or anyone else believes it to be. Through powerful conversations with Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne, and Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, Neo learns that the life of people on Earth is actually a complex system of computer data known as The Matrix, which controls every sense and action known to "man." Neo does not know what to think about this discovery, nor does he know how to grasp the new and electrifying powers given to him by Morpheus and his small yet stealth crew. Working together, they hope to achieve the one thing that they have been dreaming about: freedom. Freedom does not come easy, for many humans on Earth possess powers superior to that of Morpheus; these people are known as The Agents. When the movie came out in theaters, it received rave reviews, and after seeing the film, it deserved all of them and more. When watching, one must pay close attention to the film, for each minute contains some form of information that is vital to the unfinished plot. The actors in the film are excellent, both with their intellectual dialogue and their playing out of the action sequences. The choreography of the film is stupendous, and fight scenes with and without gunplay looks real and unflawed. Special effects are all the craze for this film, and while most movies have the patented computer-animated look, this is the closest to reality that one can get, tying Independence Day for the best special effects ever in a motion picture. Under superb direction and stellar performances, The Matrix is a thrill-ride into the surrealism of fact vs. reality. The DVD edition of the film boasts superior color fidelity and image sharpness, pleasing the eye with detail for a film that deserves it. Sound design utilizes the .1 LFE channel at almost every turn, engaging especially in gunfight scenes and powerful explosions. The scene in which Neo moves faster than bullets is a remarkable piece of sound effects editing, utilizing the .1 LFE as well as the surround channels. A terrific example of how DVD video should be produced.
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Summary: A disapointment
Review: With a title like "The Matrix", and with an actor named Keanu Reeves, I was hoping that this movie was going to be a great vision of William Gibson's stories of Cyberspace, as the movie Johnny Mnemonic was. I had to make myself go back to see this movie twice, just to make myself accept the fact that this movie was a letdown that didn't do justice to William Gibson's idea of "the matrix". The idea that alien cyberspace beings have to breed human beings in order to survive from their body heat, and keep them in a world of illusion called "the matrix", is so far fetched that it makes it impossible to identify with the movie. It is also a completely different conception of the matrix than the one Gibson envisions in his books such as "Neuromancer" - a matrix consisting of the world of the Internet and the battles of corporations fought in the world of cyberspace. If anyone was hoping to see the vision of Gibson's "Neuromancer", they still have to wait for a better movie. Until now, they will have to survive with Johnny Mnemonic.
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Summary: best Sci-Fi movie of the year
Review: With AC3 the subwoofer felt and sounded terrific The best value on features I have seen on DVD. Tempo, trama, actors, sound actions and visuals are amazingly woven, this movie has it all, I rate this movie well above episode 1, though image definition is a bit lower.
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Summary: BEHIND ONLY SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Review: With all the action and special effects, this movie blew me away on my dvd player. If you get this movie, you need 5.1. Especially with the lobby shooting spree scene. I watched this movie everyday for a week!
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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: Great Sci-Fi Action Adventure
Review: With almost 3000 reviews out there nothing more needs to be said on the plot of this film. Therefore I will limit my review to the contents of the DVD that I viewed. The DVd contains an arsenal of special features some betteer than others. In addition to the film we get two feature length commentaries. The first is by the special effects designer and the editor with additional comments by Carrie Anne Moss. This is standard fare commentary with lots of dead time as the film runs. The two crew members discuss the concept and have a rather lengthy discussion on "bullet time." The discussion is rather complicated but interesting nevertheless. Ms. Moss chimes in rarely to discuss scenes in which she was a principal. The second commentary is more interesting. This is a music only track with commentary by composer Don Davis. He discusses the score and its creation and integration with other non-source material. It is interesting to watch the film in this fashion as one does not always get a sense of the great deal of music involved in the film. The usual making of special is included and runs around 26 minutes. This is a better than average production special and is well worth a look. Also included are two "hidden" featurettes called "What is the Concept" containing original conceptual drawings and "What is Bullet Time" containing a deeper discussion of the special effects created using the virtual camera system designed for the film. "Follow the White Rabbit" allows the viewer to see an extended version of the film with nine production featurettes included that deal with the creation of the special effects and fight sequences. All in all this is a very well made DVD which serves to enhance the viewing experience of a film that is rapidly becoming a classic.
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Summary: A Phenomenon - You Have To See It For Yourself...
Review: With groundbreaking special effects technology, a philisophical / scientific story and easily watchable - The Matrix has it all. Keanu Reeves is Neo, the hacker believed by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to be the ass kicking Christ-like figure who must save the enslaved world from the Matrix. To do so, he must battle the agents, dodge bullets, have beautifully chereographed fight scenes and one hell of a shootout. Carrie-Anne Moss is the woman Neo loves and is loved by, Trinity. A mesmerizing, eye popping visual extravaganza that redefined science fiction and revitalized interest in the theme of man VS machine - mixed in with religion, philosophy and some great lines from Laurence Fishburne, you have a cyberpunk classic which can be seen again and again - a phenomenon.
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