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The Matrix

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quite simply one of my favorite movies of all time.
Review: Great action and creative. I can not wait until the next movies come out. I would recommend this to all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent & Thought Provoking
Review: Great action scenes and special effects! Wonderfully intriguing plot for a sci-fi, open up your mind and go along with the premise. My kids love this movie and turned me onto it. Think outside of the box for awhile and enjoy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great film making
Review: Great blend of action, sci-fi, kung-fu, special visual effects and creativity. There's nothing like this movie because it's one of a kind. It's an original with style!! When it ended, I was begging for more. Hopefully they'll have a sequel.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Whu-oh!
Review: Great concept, but as usual Hollywood falls short. Despite its obvious popularity, I can only say that this is a mediocre movie at best, but a fresh groundbreaking in the western film market nonetheless. It's the visual effects influenced by Japanese anime that save it. Everything else is rehashed regurgitated refuse.

The first problem is Keanu. My suspended disbelief came crashing to the tatami mat, as I watched this uncoordinated lanky white guy pretending to know kung-fu. It was farcical and embarrassing to see Keanu run up the side of a wall and flip in some sort of clumsy slow motion Karate Kid-like kick over Laurence Fishburne. I give props to Keanu for doing the hard work practicing the moves, but I blame the directors for not hiding his lack of finesse, speed, and agility. (Laurence looked great however.)

Also, after Morpheus (Fishburne) did the incredible leap to the distant building, Keanu did his signature "Whu-oh." Did no one else expect him to turn and see Bill or Ted-whichever one he wasn't-from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and say "Awesome!" ?

That's the only gripe about casting, everyone else were great choices.

Besides that and a few other instances of poor direction plus stupid plot devices (could we not have cut out the whole slow paced oracle scene?), there was the drawn out third act. I'm talking about the climax of the whole movie, where the bad androids are tearing into the ship as Trinity tells the incredibly dead Neo how much she loves him. The Wachowski brothers watched Disney's Beauty and the Beast a little too much I think. When someone is dead, I don't care if you tell them you love them or what, they're not going to come back just to give you a kiss and make everything better and change into Superman. I'm willing to accept it in a Disney cartoon, not a sci-fi/action flick. The brothers should have let someone else write the intimate scenes because it comes off as trite and idiotic. It reminds me of Terminator 2 where Arnold the killing machine asks the boy "Why do you cry?".

I cry, Arnold, because folks think that poor scenes like this give the movie "heart".

Regardless, I still think this is a good movie worth the price of admission, I'm just not in love with it enough to fawn over Keanu, ignore the superficial plot, and to type in ALL CAPS.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: totally fantastic movie but....
Review: Great concept..Extremely well done...watched a borrowed dvd probably 15 times...buying my own. Only problem I have.. Is the language (foul/blasphemous) the writers used in areas.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best movie of 1999
Review: Great Effects, good acting, superb plot, and an inspired musical score add up to making "The Matrix" the best movie of 1999. I can't wait for my copy to arrive!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Opens a can of whupass!
Review: Great effects, ideas, and storyline. My favorite of all time

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great DVD, takes full advantage of the format
Review: GREAT extra features. If this version were available on Laser, it would easily be upwards, but... you can have this really cool movie with lots of cool added features. REMEMBER FOLKS, Follow the WHITE RABBITT.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Spectular and Riveting
Review: Great movie! Loved it! Just one little flaw that I noticed.

This movie has every quality sci-fi/futuristic movie-goers love. It has spectacular special effects, a riveting and thought provoking plot, groovy fight scenes, and a tid bit of love (not overdone, thankly). Your mind will try to keep up. But watching it a few more times will help.

The little flaw I am referring to is the beginning. The 'Agents', who have the special capability to 'become' anyone inside of the virtual world, show up at the first scene by way of a vehicle. Throughout the rest of the movie, if an Agent needed to get anywhere near one of the 'Rebels', they simply 'became' a nearby person. The first scene has cops not only on the street in front of the building, but breaking the door down to the room where the rebel is located. Why did the Agents not 'become' one of those cops breaking the door down? humm.

Other than this minor flaw, the movie was spectacular and should be watched over and over, so you can catch all of the swift moving plot.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Matrix
Review: Great movie, advise everyone to see i


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