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Summary: please make it stop!
Review: and i thought the first one was bad, then i saw this and i almost puked. for the love of god do not make any more of these, they are getting old and very stupid
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Summary: Not as good as the original, but ...
Review: If I had written this review the first time I watched this movie, I would have probably given it 2 stars. I was hugely disappointed, and noone can make an argument that this is as good as the original. Too many cliches, too much of a romance, too much over-acting. But, after watching it a 2nd and then a 3rd time, the movie is actually not so bad. Incredible graphics, great action scenes and the story (after you learn to not focus on the bad acting and the nonsense scenes) is very thought provoking. For this alone, it was worth buying the DVD.
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Summary: Not so great
Review: I tohught this movie was mediocore becuase first of all they made Neo too good. Why would he fight Smith if he can just fly away. Also doging bullets is stupid when you can now just stop them. The chase scene on the highway was cool but it would've been cool to see the twins in the next one. I liked Seraph but he wasn't in it that much. The love scenes between Neo and Trintiy were also stupid and they didn't expand on them enough. This movie was pretty bad and I would not buy it. Rent it if you want to see it.
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Summary: Could be better..
Review: The second movie of the Matrix series was a disapppointment for me. It definitely could not catch the quality of the best one. The visuals people liked in the first one were repeated over and over again so it lost the originality. Some scenes were way too long, like that scene where Keanu Reeves is fighting of hundreds of Agent Smith, after some time it got boring. The whole movie felt like "oh yeah we are going to make a third one and this one is to connect the 1st and the 3rd.
The only good thing was the philosophy that set off the first one was still there, do we have free will?
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Summary: Well, I thought it was better than the first one
Review: I found the long-awaited sequel to THE MATRIX to be much easier to get into than the original because it had more action right away and we didn't have to learn about the "matrix" and the "real world" all over again. I thought it was very good. If you haven't seen it, buy it if you're a fan of the original.
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Summary: Finally: Art House sensibilities in an American genre film.
Review: "Either you get this film or you don't," was the common expression heard during the spring of 2003, and it couldn't be more untrue. The Wachowski Brothers have crafted a science fiction trilogy that far surpasses any of its modern-day counterparts (i.e., Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings). The Matrix Trilogy, as a whole, asks fundamental human questions: "Why are we here, and do we have any control over our lives?"; "Are we completely beholden to the technology we've created?" Like a true Zen proposition, and unlike most Hollywood created epic stories, the series mostly doles out the answers in the form of more questions. Neo continues his journey from the tail end of the "The Matrix", freeing as many minds as possible, but he soon learns that this is not enough. The machines have sent an army to attack Zion, digging from the planet's surface directly into the rebel's home. The crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and others only have 72 hours to try and stop the onslaught. And Neo discovers along the way that whatever super-abilities he may have been blessed with as "The One" are directly superceded by what the audience finds out "The One" actually is. This film, in ten years time, will be hailed by professional critcs the same as Stanley Kubrick's initally misunderstood masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey", was rightfully regaled a decade after its release.
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Summary: A great sequel
Review: I thought this was a wonerful movie. But being a rabid Matrix fan probably biases my review slightly. The only thing that kept this from getting 5 stars was that the first half hour or so I thought was very dull and the fact that if I had not seen the first Matrix, I would've had no idea at all what some of the parts were about. The positive points are the awesome extras and featurettes (including a hilarious parody from the MTV movie awards), an awesome battle scene and lots of interesting new characters. I urge even the mild fans of the 1st movie to see this movie.
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Summary: Short on Features... Great Movie
Review: The main thing that keeps this from getting 5 stars is that the DVD is short on extra features. The first Matrix DVD had tons more extra features, and it fit on one disc. For some reason The Matrix Reloaded DVD needs two discs for fewer features. What I particularly miss is the commentary track. Where is this? Also, the white rabbit mode in the first Matrix DVD was a neat idea, but they chose to not do any of this for Reloaded. The above mentioned gripe aside, I thought the audio and visual encoding on the disc was excellent. The movie itself, I thought was about as good as anybody could expect given the high expectations. Of course, after seeing the third movie, I feel that Reloaded wasn't as good as I'd originally thought (some things that were overly complicated in Reloaded would have been fine had they resolved them in Revolutions, but they did not), but I guess I shouldn't factor that into my review. If you are a Matrix fan, get this DVD... or perhaps hold out and maybe they will release a special addition which will have the extra features I want (that will really make me mad).
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Summary: If I was The One, I would retract that single star
Review: I am not writing about the DVD because no one here did. I am writing about the version I watched in theatres. ---MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS--- When I first heard that The Matrix would become a trilogy I said, "well, it's couldn't be THAT bad...". Man oh man, was I wrong... Obviously, criticism is purely based on matter of fact unless one is paied to do so. Then it's matter of observation.
I BELIEVE this to be the single worst film in the history of movies, which makes The Matrix: Revolutions the second worst (yes, I have watched the third one). I have watched both (second and third) because, otherwise, I would not allow myself to criticise them. The cgi in movies, up to date, is still crawling toward the DECENT level. I have never watched a film's cgi that looked appropriate. In order for cgi to be good it must not be noticible. The audience must ask, 'how did they do that?!' When it's noticible, the director did a bad job. It's very simple.
And, clearly, the Watchowski Brothers are the best example of that, and of money being thrown into a turbine. Why not invest it all in the stock market? The story is missing in this film, unlike the first one. That is because it contradicts itself. Watch the film a second time and listen to the Architect's speaches. He contradicts everything spoken so far, in the first and second films, and makes fun of the audience in the manner that everything that made sense (and what made fans want to see this film) not longer is needed. If Neo needed to do something, forget it. He now needs to do something completly different, and leaning toward another pathetic attempt at a plot point (plot sucks; stories are what makes movies, and plots can not exist without stories). If he needed to speak to someone, that someone does not know enough. The next person doesn't enough either. Etcetera, etcetera... One too many new charaters were pointlessly inserted into this film.
Who are the Albino Rastafarians and what is their purpose? And if they're important, why are they destroyed after twenty minutes?
What's so special about the Key Master if he's got a boss Neo can talk to?
Why does Neo swing his arms and create ripples in order to fly?
Why is Neo no longer powerful and Morpheus, who is pointless in this film, is more powerful than The Agents?
Why is Trinity a vigelante? Where's the team work? And what about helping Neo?
Why does Zion look like a cruddy, steel encrusted, stench of a hole in the ground?
Why are the machines using human being's body heat for power when they can build power plants just like the humans did, only better?
Why is it that Neo can stop bullets but not people? Are all his enemies avatars? No. Sorry, that point is explained. That is only a small fraction of the questions that I have in mind, and that is after viewing the entire triogy. Also, any philosophical notions mentioned are nothing more than figments of philosopical ideals, strictly taken from a Philosophy 101 textbook. If one needs to know why The Matrix is the essence of Buddhism and the real world is the essence of Christianity, please look it up. It is a very serious mistake that The Brothers made. They provide you with what you need to ask the internet.
Also, after reading up on the Göedel Theorum (yes, I read up for the last film), I understood certain notions are ideals. I also managed to predict the outcome of the third film's purpose, and its charaters' meanings and purposes.
All of that was done four months before I had viewed The Matrix: Revolutions. Two final questions: Why is the second film titled Reloaded? what is being reloaded? Certainly not the guns... They never have.
And the second question is, why is the third film titled Revolutions? There aren't any. The humans do not revolt, the machines do; but The Brothers take over the side of the humans...
Why is that? Especially since it's a lose-lose situation... The humans have 250,000 civilians and the machines send 250,000 units (they have hundreds of millions more back at the machine city). Basically it's a slaughter of the human race, except to those who hide very well. When Neo realises that he and Smith exist because they are opposits, that explains why they are attarcted to each other. But it doesn't explain why they need to fight. Especially since Neo explains that if one of them is alive, the other can not die. Therefore Neo sacrifices himself and that destroys Smith as well. But... 1)If they were doomed from the beginning, why should we watch the third film? The Watchowskies made fun of us all by milking our money. We paid to see a battle that ends in favour of both sides losing because, otherwise, they would both be alive forever and battle eachother forever. See? LOSE-LOSE. They both die or they fight each other forever to no avail.
2) Smith, by the end of the third film, has the entire world (within the Matrix) clones of himself. They are all as powerful as the next, except the original one. But when Smith dies, just after Neo, all the Smiths are destroyed.
NEWSFLASH: All the human beings bread by the machines in the machine city are hooked up to the Matrix; it is their life support. This Smith does not borrow the human's bodies, he turns them all to clones of himself. So Neo destroyed all the hukan is the machine city and everyone inside the Matrix. WHY? Who's left? Morpheus, Niobi, and twenty other? WHY ARE THEY LEFT TO SUFFER FOR EVERYONE WHOSE DEAD?
3) Why did Trinity have to die? You know what? Here's a better question; I know that The Brothers like philosophy, so: when Trinity is impaled and is dying, Neo says "You can't die..." and she respond with the slap-in-the-face remark of "Oh, yeah? Watch me." And then she dies.
WHY?!!! Basically, I really detest the way the Watchoskies have ended this monstrocity of a trilogy, I hate the way they wasted their money (and you can't say they didn't because the acting sucked and the effects were horrible), and that they entirely adapted it all from many other movies and anime titles. P.S.
These three films are made up from the stories and sequences of the following: The Terminator, Virtuosity, Strange Days, X (an anime series that I love), Dragonball Z (another anime series, but one that I hate), Neon Genesis Evangelion (another very good anime series), and there are a few more that have currently slipped my mind. If anyone else remembers any other films or anime that I have forgotten to mention, please feel free to add them to this list. Thank you. D.
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Summary: Wait a minute
Review: Anybody else notice that all these one-star reviews were written on Feb 4 by the same person? I think they should delete most of those so people don't have to wade through trash to get some honest opinions. By the way, the movie's okay.
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