The Matrix

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Summary: Top-Notch Laptop Fantasy
Review: My arm was twisted by well-meaning family and friends to open my mind and take in the wonderment of The Matrix. The second, third, and (I admit it)-- the fourth times--I twisted my own with Neoian flexibility.

Reeves, a computer hacker named Neo, taps into, or is tapped into by, a mysterious cyberpersonality named Morpheus (Fishburne). They meet in an abandoned hotel, where Reeves swallows a gelatinous pill that looks like a Nyquil.

With that, The Matrix takes a wild plunge down a very deep rabbit hole. Morpheus, it turns out, is a sort of digitally programmed buccaneer in an alternate universe, but it's actually reality, see, because the world humans wake up to each morning -- blue sky, breakfast cereal, Teletubbies -- is merely a scrim of dreams whipped up by a master race of robots who keep us asleep in plastic pods, then harvest us for food.

The Matrix is tough to explain, but then how much explaining does an amusement park ride require? And why would one want to explain it, just enjoy the ride. The movie zips along, fueled by elaborate computer-generated effects, including a martial-arts fight that has the gravity-defying speed of a Road Runner cartoon. Reeves, is exactly right as the hero, moving through hyperspace with zonked-out calm.

A fabulous fantasy which leads to in-depth, what if? discussions.

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Summary: Too deep...
Review: My brother saw this movie before I did, and absolutely hated it. I saw it with some freinds while on a business trip and was absolutely amazed, as were my two partners. I explained things a bit, and told my brother to let go of reality and look deeper... he's now seen it nearly a dozen times. INCREDIBLE MOVIE! 'Nuff Said!

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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: MY EYES WERE GLUED THE ENTIRE TIME! At first the storyline confused me and made me question the meaning behind the movie and I am not a Reeves fan so to actually enjoy one of his films is quite rare. This movie for anyone who hasn't seen it; is definitely a must see. If you're not into the storyline aspects of a movie; you'll definitely get into the effects.

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Summary: HOW DO YOU DEFINED A DREAM OR WHAT IS REAL?
Review: MY FAMILY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE. THERE ARE MOVIES THAT I WILL WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN THIS MOVIE I WILL. NOW, WHEN WILL MATRIX II BE OUT?

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Summary: The most original movie I've ever seen!
Review: My favorite genre is romantic comedies (aka "chick flicks"), so I was amazed at how much I liked this movie. The performances were all great - I think the other folks who criticized them were watching some other movie; the special effects were beyond astounding, and the storyline was brilliant and highly original. If any of my family/friends are reading, BUY THIS DVD FOR LISA FOR CHRISTMAS! =)

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Summary: The best, barnone
Review: My favorite movie of all time...Nuff said

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Summary: Best Movie of All-Time (Seriously)
Review: My Favorite Movie!

-awesome special effects

-action packed!

-okay, the acting isn't so great...

-mind-boggling (but interesting) plot!

-don't be fooled by the "R" rating, its not that violent...

The Matrix is a classic when it comes to Sci-Fi action movies. Action-packed with interesting characters and plot, and if you like the movie as much as me you'll get the awesome soundtrack!!!

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Summary: Very good, action packed, all ways gets your blood pumping.
Review: My favorite movie. I loved it so much i went and saw it 3 times in a week

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Summary: Great Effects, absolutely silly story
Review: My favorite reviews here are the ones that go something like:

"So, like, it made me think or something about, like, what is reality? This movie is so real because, like, you never know, you know. And there's all these computers and stuff?"

Dude! You are soooo right!

Worst script ever? Quite possibly. Extremely flat character development. Naive premises. Non-stop nonsequiturs. PokeMon for growed-ups: make the plot so tangled and arcane that the viewer is so fill with a sense of accomplishment simply by being able to follow the plot hierarchy that they never notice that it goes... nowhere.

PokeMon!

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Summary: This movie had possibilities, but ultimately...it sucked!
Review: My god--over 2,000 reviews for this movie!?...and most of them raves? Maybe we really do live in a society run by artificial intelligence, as this grossly overrated movie's convoluted plot suggests.

There were some promising ideas in this movie, such as the notion that artificial intelligence evolved from humankind's own creation, into nature's way of eliminating the blight that humankind has become on mother earth. Fascinating concept, but with its glut of overblown special effects ultimately lapsing into SciFi cheese, and plot turns folding in on themselves until they collapse under their own weight, this movie was just another glaring example of Hollywood 2000: self indulgent FX, convolluted plots, mostly crummy music, and a movie at least a half hour too long for its storyline, finally culminating in a lousy ending. When Hollywood finally learns that "less is more" it may very well be one of the final signs of the apocalypse. Sometimes I long for the days when they could make a good 90-minute movie (and I'm really not that old).

This movie actually got my interest back, and lost it again, at least twice over the course of the circuitous storyline, but too often fell back on old SciFi cliches, lengthy explanatory soliloquys to TELL what the convoluted plot couldn't possibly SHOW, and flashy special FX, all of which made me long for one of those good old half hour Twilight Zone, "is reality just a dream" episodes. I am not nearly as much of a movie buff as my wife (she thought it sucked, too, though), and my idea of good SciFi is old TZ, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Planet of the Apes, but I think this is may be the worst SciFi movie I've seen in at least 20 years.

At one point, at just before the two hour mark in the movie, I said to my wife, who was almost dozing by that time, "Okay, this has almost become a decent movie, but if it goes on for another half hour, it sucks." She said, "You know it will, they're not going to end it here." Sure enough, a half hour later I'm looking at another stupid, non sequitur Hollywood ending--all-too-appropriately accompanied by some "Nu Metal" crap for end title music. What I find much more societally unsettling than this movie's scenario, is that so many people thought this movie was great. I wonder how many of those people were able to follow the storyline at all; and how many just liked it because of the glut of FX, the idea of artificial intelligence taking over reality, and yet another in a long line of Nu Metal and Industrial-dominated soundtracks. The REAL Matrix is an entertainment industry that keeps feeding stuff like this to an audience that just keeps mindlessly saying, "Thank you, sir, might I have another?"