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Summary: Free your mind. . . .
Review: This movie has one of the most subtly empowering dialogues I have experienced in a long time. . . listen well to the dialogue and apply it to YOUR everyday life.
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Summary: Best of Action
Review: Best movie I have ever seen before, special effects are incredible. Definately must own this movie.
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Summary: WHUT WAS THIS?
Review: Honestly I hated this movie because Kenu was much better in Bill and Ted, I know this guy can do a LOT better! The digital efx seemed kinda fake (I've even seen better ones on some music videos on MTV...)The story was MADE for wanna be intelletualish pranks! And for all of you mega fans (specially the ones that compare Matrix to Star Wars) that are gonna bash this review with negative rating please take out Eraserhead and learn!
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Summary: The Matrix of Reality
Review: In the visually tantalizing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds them through grim looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, computer program called "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness of the unfortunate human batteries. Ensconced in their shells, they see themselves walking, talking, working and making love. This is a tangible and olfactory phantasm masterfully created by the Matrix. Its computing power is mind boggling. It generates the minutest details and reams of data in a spectacularly successful effort to maintain the illusion. A group of human miscreants succeeds to learn the secret of the Matrix. They form an underground and live aboard a ship, loosely communicating with a halcyon city called "Zion", the last bastion of resistance. In one of the scenes, Cypher, one of the rebels defects. Over a glass of (illusory) rubicund wine and (spectral) juicy steak, he poses the main dilemma of the movie. Is it better to live happily in a perfectly detailed delusion - or to survive unhappily but free of its hold? The Matrix controls the minds of all the humans in the world. It is a bridge between them, they inter-connected through it. It makes them share the same sights, smells and textures. They remember. They compete. They make decisions. The Matrix is sufficiently complex to allow for this apparent lack of determinism and ubiquity of free will. The root question is: is there any difference between making decisions and feeling certain of making them (not having made them)? If one is unaware of the existence of the Matrix, the answer is no. From the inside, as a part of the Matrix, making decisions and appearing to be making them are identical states. Only an outside observer - one who in possession of full information regarding both the Matrix and the humans - can tell the difference. Moreover, if the Matrix were a computer program of infinite complexity, no observer (finite or infinite) would have been able to say with any certainty whose a decision was - the Matrix's or the human's. And because the Matrix, for all intents and purposes, is infinite compared to the mind of any single, tube-nourished, individual - it is safe to say that the states of "making a decision" and "appearing to be making a decision" are subjectively indistinguishable. No individual within the Matrix would be able to tell the difference. His or her life would seem to him or her as real as ours are to us. The Matrix may be deterministic - but this determinism is inaccessible to individual minds because of the complexity involved. When faced with a trillion deterministic paths, one would be justified to feel that he exercised free, unconstrained will in choosing one of them. Free will and determinism are indistinguishable at a certain level of complexity. Yet, we KNOW that the Matrix is different to our world. It is NOT the same. This is an intuitive kind of knowledge, for sure, but this does not detract from its firmness. If there is no subjective difference between the Matrix and our Universe, there must be an objective one. Another key sentence is uttered by Morpheus, the leader of the rebels. He says to "The Chosen One" (the Messiah) that it is really the year 2199, though the Matrix gives the impression that it is 1999. This is where the Matrix and reality diverge. Though a human who would experience both would find them indistinguishable - objectively they are different. In one of them (the Matrix), people have no objective TIME (though the Matrix might have it). The other (reality) is governed by it. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
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Summary: This movie is a joke
Review: First off the "fight scenes" are stiff and slow, if you think they are good then you have never seen good kung-fu flicks, where wire-fu is done right. Wire-fu is an art, but this is a joke. Also thee gun fights are dumb. Watch the JohnWoo film HardBoiled and you will know what I am talking about. Second the story has been done a million times before, and everytime it is better than this. The Truman Show, 13th Floor, and Dark City all handle the "None of this real" theory better. Third the FX are not as WOW! as you think they are, StarWars Ep.I a re better. Finaly the bad acting, the acting alone makes me hurl
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Summary: I SALUTE TO EVERYBODY OF THIS MOVIE!!! "VERY ENLIGHTENING !"
Review: WHAT IS REALITY? IF YOU ARE A STUDENT OF EASTERN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY, THIS MOVIE IS QUITE A HELP TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS "MAYA" OR "MARA". I HAVE BEEN SEEING THIS MOVIE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND EVERY TIME I FIND THE ANSWER TO MISSING LINKS IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY. THE BEST SCENE IS WHEN NEO VISITS THE ORACLE AND SHE ACTUALLY TELLS THE TRUTH IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY WHICH LATER MORPHIUS CLARIFIES WITH NEO THAT YOU LISTEN TO WHAT YOU WANT TO LISTEN... AND EXACTLY IN THE SAME WAY YOU SEE AND UNDERSTAND IN THIS MOVIE WHAT YOU WANT TO. WHENEVER I AM RELAXED I PUT THIS MOVIE ON AND EVERYTIME I GET SOME INSIGHT.
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Summary: Good for people who like these kind of movies
Review: According to the commercials and previews before this movie came out, it look real cool with a lot of action. But when I saw the movie finally it didn't have a lot of action as in the commercial. Not till the end is where there's action, but the battles don't last long enough in the movie and there isn't enough. The plot wasn't that interesting either. The only thing I thought was cool was the special effects and action scenes. If you really like computer art, weird, and sci-fi movies, The Matrix is for you.
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Summary: Ooooh, Ahhhh, Ohhhh!
Review: This movie is one of the best! I must rate it way up there with Star Trek: First Contact and Star Wars: Episode I Surprisingly it's not a great movie because of the SFX but because of a storyline that makes you think, too many movies lately have been without story (MI:2?!?!, not to say it was a bad movie though!)
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Summary: Outstading corporate profit-generator
Review: Ah yes, The Matrix. The absolute darling of geeks and dorks all over the world. The impact The Matrix had cannot be denied, but it has earned a level of praise it does not deserve. Sure, the film is far from boring and great care was taken to insure its entertainment value. But the praise has not been for its MTV action sequences. The Matrix has been praised by many for its themes. However, the idea that reality is but shadowplay on a cave wall is as old as sci-fi itself. Indeed, people have asked: "How do you know the world you percieve is real?" But once you answer with: "Why would someone create such a deception?" It's obvious how absurd the praise for this film is. And then there are others who sight The Matrix's religious themes. Those people need to go and read Dune. The Matrix is an unapologetic post-modern sci-fi that is anything BUT original. It is little more than a blend of Dark City, The Terminator, and Fist of Legend. Even today, I still don't understand why such a super computer would use fists to battle an enemy. WTF? It's also funny to watch a group of rebels sneak around in an environment totally controlled by this super computer. After all, this computer wiped out most of human civilization, and now it's too stupid to terminate a group of annoying punks?... Also, the use of 90's techno metal will seriously date this film in fifteen years. And now the sequels are coming. One can only image how excited The Matrix cult must be.
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Summary: A mind blowing trip !
Review: When I first watched this film with a friend, we were knocked out by it and we were already discussing it right in the middle of the film. I feel the special effects are totally different and you could just take it as a good sci-fi/action film but it has tons of symbolism, which the writers/directers obviously intended. I went right out, bought a copy of the DVD and have watched it countless times since.
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