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Summary: oh, please...
Review: This movie has exactly two things to recommend it:
1. Cool special effects.
2. Foetus farms.Other than that, this movie is utter trash. Those of you who don't want your virgin eyes spoiled by knowing what the movie is about (like anyone doesn't know by now) should not read what follows, because it is a long list of everything WRONG with the movie--not counting the fact that the (supposedly mind-blowingly original) concept behind it has been done by countless sci-fi movies and books for decades--and I may accidentally drop a few hints as to the nature of the plot of this, um, flick. 1. The Oracle. It's stupid, it makes no sense, and it has nothing to do with anything.
2. The fact that Neo comes back to life when Trinity kisses him. I mean, come ON, can't we think of anything cleverer than THAT?
3. The idea of getting energy from humans, forgetting the fact that you'd have to put more energy into them than you'd get out.
4. Beings that control all aspects of your perception using fallible, killable agents that (mostly) obey the laws of physics, when they could just make you think an anvil fell on your head and crushed you.
5. The fact that unplugging someone causes them to die, rather than simply to come out of the matrix. Isn't that what happened to Neo when he took the pill anyway?
6. Telephones. This was the most irritating thing in the entire movie. WHY, may I ask, is it necessary to pick up a telephone to emerge from this virtual universe?
7. If deja vu is when there's a glitch and "they" reset something, shouldn't everyone get it at the same time?
8. The ripply-helicopter-building-crash thing. Some people explain this by saying that "they" don't know how to deal with disasters of that magnitude, but what about volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.?
9. All the stupid Biblical metaphors and whatnot. They really don't make that much sense once you analyze them. So there you have it. On the one hand, you have the red pill--logic, reason, internal consistency, intellectual value. On the other, you have the blue pill--foetus farms. Which do you choose?
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Summary: A SciFi classic!
Review: I keep watching this movie ..something I never usually do. The story line is very clever and there are echoes of many devices used in some great literary classics, (Lewis Carrol fans should love it). The special effects are stunning but you must watch it on DVD to savor them to their full effect. Even Keanu Reeves looks good in this !! This movie will become a SciFi classic very quickly - buy it --satisfaction guaranteed
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Summary: This Movie is the Best!
Review: I have seen this movie over ten times and I still enjoy it. I find that the action and the alternate reality thing going on keeps me hooked onto the movie. I would recommend this movie to anyone.
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Summary: Great Movie! Awesome Features!
Review: Initially, I was not interested in watching this movie at all. However, once I was finally coersed into watching it, I fell in love! This is a wonderful film! The characters, the actors, the effects: they are all amazing! Buy the DVD! The special features are awesome! The behind-the-scenes documentary is great! And the commentary version of the film was very refreshing after having watched the theatrical version a few dozen times. I highly recommend this movie and am very anxious to see what the Wachowski brothers do with the next two pieces of this trilogy.
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Summary: this is the movie DVD was invented for!
Review: you simply can't enjoy THE MATRIX properly on video cassette. If you're planning on getting this movie, just get a DVD player and this DVD. The sound is awesome, the picture is excellent, and there are some really nice extras too. THE MATRIX was the best movie of 1999, you must get it!
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Summary: Bring on the sequel! Now!
Review: I went to see this film knowing nothing about it, thinking it was just a high-tech keanu reeves flick. o, my, god! I was totally blown away from the opening scene. this film is unlike anything I have ever seen before. the effects totally blasted star wars into well-deserved oblivion at the oscars, and Larwrence Fishbourne gave a terrific acting performance. the only downside on the dvd is that in some spots the picture is not that great of quality, especially when they are in the sewers hiding from the robots. other than that, the sound is the best you will hope to find on dolby digital, very good. if you can find the DTS version, pick up that one instead, it's slighty better. I can hardly wait until 2002 when the sequel comes out. for now though, I'll just be watching this film over and over again.
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Summary: Good movie though the fighting is a little naive!
Review: I was quite impressed by the film in the cinema. Good plot, no similar stories have never been seen. The slow motion of flying bullets is probably new. Later I bought the vcd which includes the making of the film. It was a good effort to invite Hooping as the action director. But the actors were trained for only three months which might be a little short. As a usual practice, actors and actresses who have no martial arts background ususally need 6 months' training before they can really perform in front of the camera. (5-6 months for crouching tiger hidden dragon, as an example). The fighting scene between keanu and the laurence is like kids' playing. Their movement lacks a little grace which could probably prevent it from becoming a classic. Maybe you don't agree with me now, but if you carry on to watch other movies directed by Yuan Hooping, you will realise that what I have said is not exaggerated.
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Summary: Just as good the twentieth time around!
Review: This is by far one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen, not leastwise because of the incredible martial arts sequences (which are actually performed by the actors themselves). I've seen this well over a dozen times, and on DVD in Widescreen on my Sony Wega TV, it's even more incredible! The audio commentary feature is great, giving some interesting perspectives on various scenes and often revealing surprising facts about how the scenes were done. The other featurettes (making of, "bullet time", follow the white rabbit) are all excellent and just add to the value of the DVD. This is a must-have for any sci-fi fan's collection!
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Summary: TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE DECISION
Review: In "The Matrix" a small group of individuals is inclined to free humankind from the claws of Artificial Intelligence. A few machines, who need solar energy to survive, have taken to themselves to make energy thru human feelings and emotions, in a world where the atmosphere has been destroyed and the sunlight does not reach the ground. In this battle against A.I., this group, led by Morpheus, is searching for "the One", who will be able to control the Matrix and bend it to his will. When they find Neo, they think their end is over, but to be the one, Neo must believe he is the one. When he believes it, he will become the one who will start the revolt against the machines, and free the human race.
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Summary: Wow! 2122 reviews!
Review: Nice to know that my two cents will not be buried. . . . *The Matrix*, directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, is a purposefully non-user-friendly movie. The directors make no effort to reach out to a general audience: if you're not familiar with the terminology of "graphic" novels, geeky cyber-fi, and if you're under the age of, say, 40, then to hell with you. Besides, as the film studios well know, the biggest audience for movies are boys between 14 and 21, which begs the question: why BOTHER reaching out? If you don't fit the demographic, who cares? You're irrelevant. The movie is about a guy named Neo (get it? as in "One" -- this is typical of the depth of thought that went into this story) who is slowly awakened to the fact that the life he's been leading has all along been a fictional computer construct. For the benefit of those in the audience who'd been forced -- kicking and screaming -- to read "Alice in Wonderland" in college, Neo is shown the "true" reality by swallowing a red pill, provided by a small group of reality-renegades led by Laurence Fishburne. There are other allusive candies for the smart set: Neo, for reasons unclear to him, gets dragged away and interrogated by interchangeable bureaucrats (think Kafka); even the very ending hints at Wagnerian opera. But rest assured: there's nothing very intellectual going on here -- only proof that the Wachowskis received a liberal education. Needless to say, many of the plot elements fail to hold up under scrutiny. Just for starters, you would be a chronic cripple if you lay in a coma for 20 or so years, but that's just one minor item the story breezes over. The directors ask you to suspend your disbelief over a grand canyon of impossibilities, illogical plot mechanisms, on and on. To top it all off, we're given howlingly irrealistic special effects -- these characters commence flying all over the place; they get shot, fall down, dust it off, and continue kickboxing; they hang suspended in mid-air . . . evidently they're made to resemble the video-game characters whom the targeted audience spends so much time with. The Wachowski brothers aren't merely directing a movie; they're putting on The Greatest SHOW On Earth. Well, as P.T. Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every minute."
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