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Summary: Matrix -- A subersive and dangerous film
Review: The Matrix is a science-fiction and action film that weaves within it the message that is subersive and dangerous. This is a very enjoyable science-fiction film that explores the nature of reality.Neo is the hero (his name means NEW or CHANGE) and he is contacted by Morpheus -- the most dangerous man alive, and a terrorist. The movie is subversive in a very clever way, the hereos are terrorists who are willing and able to gun down security agents and law officers. They state that if you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. The film is very cleverly anti-government, and anti-law, and promotes voilence against the governement and the populace. This is a brilliant film that should be watched by everyone. You can simply watch it as a science-fiction action film, or you can understand the philosophical and mystical messages in it, or finally the revelation: the political and social messages in it. You need to watch the film at least three times, and listen to the dialogue carefully to understand it. This film demands multiple viewings, and is a film that should be owned. With the layers of meanings in the film, and the messages weaved into the story, it makes for a very watchable film. The special effects are also brilliant, as are the sets.
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Summary: On my Top Ten List for 1998
Review: The Matrix is a stunning sci-fi thriller from the remarkable Wachowski brothers, who CO-wrote and CO-directed it. With just a couple of small independent films under their belts, the Wachowskis were somehow able to propel themselves into the front line of big budget film making. So skittish was the management team at Warner Brothers over the project that it opted to take on an Australian finical partner. Making The Matrix in Australia further lowered Warner's risk. Now that the film is a worldwide smash hit, the company must split the profits and the credit. Welcome to the New Hollywood, a place run by business types who make decisions based not on gut instinct, but on a wealth of computer data. Ironically, The Matrix is about the fate of a world that carries its reliance on computers too far. The movie opens in the year 1999. Or is it 1999 at all? We find Tom Anderson living two lives. By day he is an employee at a powerful software company. By night he is a computer hacker known as Neo. Without giving the plot away, I can say that all his life, Anderson has felt that the world is somehow vaguely askew. In his secret life on the Internet, he has become obsessed with a man know only as Morpheus, who is wanted by the authorities for computer sabotage. One night he is lead to a disco where he meets a strange and beautiful girl called Trinity. She is also a hacker and can arrange for him to meet Morpheus. The plot then gets very thick indeed. In another irony, I have never seen a film that integrates computer graphics and effects into the story as well as The Matrix does. The subject matter demands a heavy reliance on special effects. In fact, prior to the introduction of digital technology, such a movie would have been extremely difficult to make. Its theme and tone are much like another sci-fi classic, Blade Runner, but that earlier movie did not have to bend the rules of space and time in the ways The Matrix does. Despite all it technical wizardry, The Matrix's driving force is its riveting thriller of a story. Glorious special effects, for once, enhance the memorable characters. The theme may owe its origins to the best of the comic books, but this does not detract from it, any more than it did from the first Superman and Batman movies. Keanu Reeves is excellent as Neo. It's not the kind of performance that wins an Oscar. It's the kind one remembers long after one forgets who won the Oscar. Like the late Cary Grant, Reeves is more star and personality than actor. Grant played Grant better than anyone else, and only Reeves can play Reeves. Laurence Fishburne gives his usual strong yet thoughtful performance in the role of Morpheus. Carrie-Ann Moss plays Trinity with both relish and style. The Matrix is a big, splashy show, and it is less spectacular on video than it was on the big screen. Still, most of the big events play reasonable well when shrunk down, and the story itself is perhaps a bit enhanced on video. Both a thrill ride and a thought provoking look at mankind's tenuous relationship with reality, The Matrix is unlike any movie you are likely to see this year. In fact, I haven't admired a high profile sci-fi thriller this much since Alien, Aliens and Blade Runner in the early 1980s.
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Summary: A different look at "reality"
Review: The Matrix is a thought-provoking, innovative film that causes its audience to question what is truly real around them. Keanu Reeves, who plays an introverted computer software programmer/hacker, is thrown into a world where he is shown that the world in which he has lived his whole life is nothing more than a bunch of "ones and zeros", or binary digits compiled by evil agents to create a program that is our world. This film was very well done, with amazing special effects. It includes many technological wonders, such as interactive virtual reality programs, telephones that connect two worlds, and programs that can be downloaded into one's memory. A real thriller and must-see.
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Summary: The Best Film Ever
Review: The Matrix is a truly magnificent film! From the very start I was excited, intrigued and downright gobsmacked as to the depth and feel to the film. I truly loved this flick. The funky urban feel that it had, and the effects incorporated into it were loveable. You really felt that this was going to be a good film right from the start, and I tell you now it doesnt dissapoint. I have heard some people say it wasnt what they expected and that they didnt like it but I think those people couldnt of understood the film. The concept of the film was astounding and the directors were truly instrumental in the thinking of the plot. A very clever and believable story line, especially in the mad capped corrupted world we live in nowadays. The Matrix..........it came, it impacted and by god I friggin loved it. All who has eyes should grab some popcorn and sit down and watch this flick. I cant say any more than that !
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Summary: Absolutely incredible.
Review: The Matrix is a truly magnificent piece of work. I'd have to say that it is, without a doubt, the best movie I have ever seen.
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Summary: The best Sci Fi of the decade!
Review: The Matrix is a very cool movie that makes you think. I mean the world is a big computer simulation imagaine that your able to do anything you want if your the controller its just a cool movie Neo as Keanu Reeves is awesome with his karate scenes and stuff like that so people who read this see the movie I give it everything!
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Summary: A real cool movie
Review: The Matrix is a very cool movie. It has a good plot
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Summary: The Matrix is a must see movie!
Review: The Matrix is a very enchanting and intriging movie. The movie is excellent. It is about a man who is trying to find out who the matrix is. He eventually finds out he is the chosen one. He finds himself in a different world and gets to find out that he is to protect the world from machines. He faces many different challenges and he has to work out so he can defeat the people chasing him. He has very many things to do. Eventually he wins the game and finds a new lover. Now thats what i call a great movie and is almost like Odyssey. I think Keanu is a great actor and was very extrodinary in the Matrix. So I really think people should go see this very awesome movie that brought a lot of money to the people who produced it. well i just hope that people go see this very interesting movie.
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Summary: Philosophical Action
Review: The Matrix is a very entertaining movie. It has great martial arts sequences and John Woo inspired gun sequences. The story of this movie is solid and very intriguing. The dialogue is where this movie stumbles horribly. The philosophical lines are just horrendous. Example: "I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it." This trite nonsense just takes away from the action. These one-liners are sprinkled through out the movie. You may say I have to lighten up, but great dialogue could have made this movie perfect. The story is there, the acting is there, and the action sequences are there. The influence of this movie can already be seen. The wire work is extensively used in other movies, such as Charlies Angels. I saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and I have to say The Matrix just doesn't cut it. Well-worth seeing more than once, but just don't listen to what the characters are saying.
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Summary: This movie couldn't be better
Review: The Matrix is a very good movie. Some people said it was confusing and hard to understand, but I didn't find it confusing at all. It is the story of Thomas Anderson also known as Neo. I can't explain the story because you have to see it for yourself, but it is not as complicated as you think. The visual effects are ground-breaking and are gonna be imitate by every action movie in the future. The Matrix is better than his sequel The Matrix Reloaded, who has less story, but more action. The DVD has some cool extras, but buy it, at least for the movie.
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