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Summary: A Paradigma...before and after The Matrix series
Review: So far, this movies serial is a paradigma in the industry. Now that we can watch the three of the pictures in retrospective, lefting appart the stunning visual effects that attracted primarily the attention to them, and we can get into the storyline, we could realize that it took much of its frame from many of the most important modern and postmodernistic mainstreams of the artistic visual creations that emerged near to the end of the millenium and in the new century, which includes mainly the manga phenomenon and other cores of the japanese animés, as well of some of the best french underground comics, characterized all of them by a heavy load of millenary, quasi-fundamental religiosity, blended with an exhaltation to technology and technological inventions, which now become the man gods, for bad or good, in a obviously reference to that heritage of the postmodernistic envision at the beginnings of the XX century (remeMber "Metropolis" from director Fritz Langs): simbiotical relationships that tresspass down into the the soul and mind of the characters in a mutual pursue of freedom and superiority, of both men and "machines" by means of spirituality and technology.
It's fair to recognize that this serie put itself appart from any other previous attempts in this sense and also, it will be very hard at least in the next years to come, that something similar could arise in the film industry. Van Helsing, Alien vs Predator, Underworld, Star Wars and some other fantastic films may certainly pass along and left us not too much, not because they could be or not bad movies.
It's just because we already experienced The Matrix series. It is the before and the after of.
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Summary: Hopefully the end to The Matrix phenomenon
Review: "The Matrix Revolutions" seems to me to be a little better than "The Matrix Reloaded". Maybe this is because I resigned myself to believing that the third [and hopefully final installment] would be, like "Reloaded", all whiz-bang special effects and little substance. This turned out to be a correct assumption. But not expecting much in the story department allowed me to appreciate the visuals, which are awesome. Ironically, what rules the making of both "Matrix" sequels seems to be modern machinery; in this case, digital computers. Did the filmmakers see the irony? Modern machines dictate that special effects render plot and good scripting obsolete in movies about mankind's defeat by machines? This episode continues the attack of the computers/machines on the human population, which has taken refuge underground. As the machines bore through the earth relentlessly in their attack on what's left of mankind. Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and the others continue to do their best to salvage the human race. Neo, after finally meeting the ultimate machine and proposing a truce, takes on the nefarious Agent Smith in a battle that goes on and on and on. I think the 'problem' with the sequels is rather simple. Commerce dictated that, since the original "Matrix" was so successful, sequels should be made. In any art form, often the original product is whole within itself. How could anyone paint a sequel to The Mona Lisa? The classic movie "Casablanca" ended with a question mark, but could a "Part 2" truly have gone any further? My conclusion is that, if commerce dictates sequels, so be it, but it is foolish of us to expect them to equal, much less to exceed, the original.
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Summary: KILL ... THE MATRIX!!!!
Review: OH MY GOD!!!! This movie sucks so hard, it makes Dude Where Is My Car seem like Lord Of The Rings!!!!! It has a stupid scenario, one that you have,to more or less, get from the start or else you are dead meat and you don't even know it, it's a really bad idea if you wanna just see something and relax, Reeves playing Neo as if he is a robot, and by the first 20 minutes you wish you had rented Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings and not bought this crap, and above all, everything seems to be so important and all keep thinking through the movie is "What the f**k are they doing there?" The bad news is that they are thinking about a second trilogy (WHY??? WHY????) The good news is that compared to this all other movies are masterpieces!!
Well done people, next time you should aim in making a movie that's better than Scooby Doo!!!!
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Summary: Much Better On DVD (some spoilers)
Review: I wrote a review here when the movie came out in theaters. In that first review I gave Revolutions 3-stars, stating that in a theater this movie was tough to sit through, but I expected the DVD to be a better movie experience. And it was, for me. I'll give you an example (spoiler ahead) Trinity has been run through by metal rods when they crash landed in the machine city. Trinity was impaled in four or five places. She should've been killed instantly, but she has something to say to Neo before kicking the bucket. She goes on, and on, and on to the point where you're ready to stand up and yell "DIE ALREADY!" at an important character that I should not want to see die, but at that point I just wanted the movie to be done already. I watched the same scene here on DVD and when Trinity starts making her death-speech, I got up, went to the restroom, made myself a sandwich (ham and Swiss on wheat), got a Diet Coke out of the fridge, and then halfway from the kitchen to the TV, I changed my mind, went back to the kitchen and got a Diet Dr. Pepper instead. It was also hot in my house, so I got a class and some ice. When I sat down in front of the TV again Trinity was STILL dying. I'm not kidding, I swear it's true. But that's the cool thing about DVDs. We can get up, fast forward and even skip the whole chapter without ruining the movie-I mean we have ALL seen it already. The movie is loaded, and reloaded (heh) with scenes like this. Scenes that may help illustrate the two creators' vision, but could have been much, much shorter. For many people this movie starts with Neo in the Train Station being told that "Love is a word", "Karma is a word", squawk, squawk, blah, blah. I swear I hate that program, and I'd have strangled him if I were Neo (of course if I had Neo's power in the Matrix, I'd never unplug). However, thanks to the control of DVD, for me the movie starts with Morpheus, Trinity and Seraph going to confront the Merovingian (sp). It's tough for us reviewers here who are on the middle of the fence. I was terribly disappointed in the theater with this movie. I'm not going to re-hash what a thousand people here have said sucks about it, nor will I go into what people who thought it sucked didn't understand. I think different people simply have different taste in films, and how smart they are doesn't play into whether they liked The Matrix Revolutions or not. This is a question of taste which means one thing (wow I sound like the oracle): You have do decide for yourself. Rent it, rent it, rent it. It's well worth a rental if you haven't seen it yet. Personally, I like this film here in my dvd player, right next to Reloaded. For me, both were better on dvd. I'm not saying Revolutions sucked- I'm not saying it's the best movie of 2003 (anyone who thinks that only saw one movie in 2003). This movie is much better at home, you can throw popcorn at the tv screen and tell that Indian program to shut up when he tells Neo "Love is a word", SHUT UP! I HATE YOU! You can't do that in a theater, and anything you find stupid about Revolutions you can declare proudly as if you were in an episode of Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000. So the movie has flaws, and faults it has plusses too, and I hope nobody depends soley on internet reviews to make a decision about how they like this movie. Online, if you like it somehow you are in denial to the ones who didn't like it, and if you hated it then you are simply closed-minded and ignorant to the people who liked it. The internet is full of opinionated characters. Don't be influenced by opinionated people-see for yourself if the movie sucks or not. For me the movie sucks a little, and is also very good in places, and worth owning on dvd.
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Summary: WARNING
Review: DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE WHATEVER YOU DO!!!!!!!
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Summary: IT'S [bad]
Review: where did neo go? reloaded was better than this [part], i mean come on, neo did no cool fighting, he pretty much got [down], and handed to him. CGI is great, but i don't wanna see the whole movie in cgi. the first one is still the best, reloaded followings and revolutios dosn't even qualifiy
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Summary: a bore-to-death pathetic video game
Review: this is a pretty messy and over-imaginated final fantasy. wasted about a year-long lifetime of all the casts. guys who produced these three movies should not have looked beyond it and tried to make some extra money from video game released after this crappy movie. this is a video game within a video game-like movie. no feelings, no loveable roles but ridiculous and lifeless figures with cliched, repeated, over-run junks. produced by a bunch of graphically junkies who wasted so much money on modern movie techniques, got lost, and never realized they were just making a lousy video game instead of a movie. pathetic.....
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Summary: Matrix: Independence Day
Review: The Chairman's Rating: 2/10 This movie is Sanctimonious Tripe! Just when you hoped that Matrix: Reloaded was a fluke, you find out that it wasn't. It was the original Matrix that was the fluke. This movie is the poster child for the 'WCS' award (Would'a, Could'a, Should'a). No, correct that. This one earns a special WCS Lifetime Achievement Award. Everything that made 'The Matrix' the phenomenon it was (such that I use the reference Pre-Matrix and Post-Matrix when describing special effects or sci-fi thereafter) was missing from this movie. Everything important, everything meaningful to the true Matrix storyline was either glossed over or run together in horribly placed soliloquies, as if to say, 'Get the storyline over with so we can get back to spending all of our $ on the special effects, Maaaan' (spoken with 70's hippie drawl) To me, using special effects in film is akin to matching perfect wine (special effects) with the right food (storyline) . The food (storyline) must come first and is the most important. If the wine (special effects) is overbearing, the entire experience falls flat. The Wachowski brothers had two paths to go down after The Matrix: 1) true sci-fi storyline and a mind expanding plot, spiced with special effects; or 2) special effects to impress the 13 year-old kids to buy lots of stuff. The chose the latter, and the viewers have suffered the consequences. The few pieces of good storyline were totally overshadowed. However, kudos to an admirable job by Mary Alice as the Oracle. With the loss of Gloria Foster, Ms. Alice was given a tough role and given no script with which to work, she managed to pull it off. With the exception of Neo, anyone really doing anything was non-white, female or both. The true beauty/genius of The Matrix was that you never noticed race or gender. The characters were written so well and performed so brilliantly by the cast that it made no difference at all. I loved it and was hoping for lots more of the same in future releases, in essence eliminating stereotypes. In Revolutions, the politically-correct stereotypes were jammed in the viewers faces constantly. There were more cliches in this movie than sentinels. In the 'finest' Independence Day tradition: Tough, old grizzled
Marine yelling at the 16-year old kid, the 'Give 'em hell' speech, the kid 'saves the day', 2 chicks dishin' (rockets, that
is), Jada Pinkett ScreenKiller calling everything 'Baby'. Jogging instead of running, while trying to escape pursuers? C'mon, fake the running, at least, but jogging with flattened hands doesn't make anyone appear to be running faster. And after seeing the inhabitants of Zion, all I did was arm-chair General and root for the machines. I think the sentinels should have been outfitted with white gloves at the end of their tentacles, just so they could 'dope-slap' everyone in Zion. With the choir music and doe-eyes at the mention of the name 'Neo', you can tell that they were hoping to start a belief system akin to the Jedi Knights of Star Wars, thereby propagating the series into lot$ of $ale$. To top it all off, the 'Features' in the 2-CD set:
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(BTW, the Matrix: Reloaded PC Game was rated by many as one of the worst games released in 2003.) For an example of the reverse, take Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider was a popular video game long before the movies came out. So when the movies arrived, everyone knew to pretty much check your brain at the door, sit back and be entertained. Both movies succeeded and were hits because we knew roughly what to expect. Not so with The Matrix. It was PRECISELY the LBI (Left the Brains In) Factor that so intrigued everyone in the first place. To remove that intellectual aspect entirely was a total shock and much more of a letdown than if it were mindless to begin with There is SO much wrong with this film that almost every scene deserves its own paragraph explaining the absurdity of ever putting it to film. The horrid music pretending to be awe-inspiring
Castrated Morpheus
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Zion Council of Sanctimonious Do-Nothings One line sums it up. Agent Smith, after taking over the matrix and turning it dark, green and rainy, and turning all the people into replicas of himself, asks Neo: 'So, how do you like what I've done with the place?' Frankly, I loved it! Just like Independence Day, this movie was Chinese food for the eyes, i.e. five minutes after watching it, you're hungry. In fact, minutes after watching it, I was so ticked off that I immediately watched the first 35 minutes of 'Saving Private Ryan'. I had to flush this Matrix: REVULSIONS out of my mind and to do it I chose to watch people REALLY fighting, for the RIGHT reasons, for people WORTH saving. Let's face it, Cypher was right all along. 'Why, oh why, didn't I take the BLUE pill?' After the first Matrix, I ask myself (and the Wachowski brothers) the same thing.
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Summary: The End Is Nigh?
Review: The attack on Zion is the main feature of the final installment of the Matrix series. As expected the machines make it through the crust and the fight for survival begins. Meanwhile Neo and Trinity make their way up to the surface to confront the machines and explain the need to stop Smith. Yet we are so absorbed in the Zion battle that those two are forgotten about until the end. The revelations of Oracle are still unclear and my predictions is for another movie in the future. A two disc set, the DVD pack explains alot but for many it still leaves alot of an answered questions.
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Summary: Did everyone miss the symbolism?
Review: I can understand being disappointed by Revolutions, if you didn't pick up on the deliberate choice of words and names from the first and second movies: Morpheus, the name of his ship, Neo, Anderson, Trinity, Daniels House of Dream Interpretation, etc. If these all make sense to you, then you already know how this movie will end, and the biggest disappointment will be the fact that "Death" (aka Smith, played by Hugo Weaving) and Neo's big fight is just boring to watch. Then again, I guess it's better than 40 days in the desert. They're all set up for the next movie to be called "Matrix Revelation." I enjoyed the movie because of the parallels, and because I could see where they were going. On the other hand, if you didn't get any of the above, which it appears to me most reviewers don't, then you might as well take the blue pill, or better yet, go read a good book. This movie is chock full of inside references, both to mythology and to established religions. If you don't get any of those references, you'll be one of the bitter and disappointed viewers who don't understand why the ending turned out the way it is.
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