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Summary: Una serie que marca época
Review: La originalidad de esta serie la hace imprecindible para los que gustan del cine. Independientemente de las actuaciones, que de hecho son muy buenas, una película que continuamente sorprende por lo relativamente impredecible e inteligente se tiene que tomar como favorita. Si no gustas de este tipo de filmes, recomiendo que al menos le des una oportunidad porque siento que valdrá la pena.
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Summary: disappointment
Review: The Matrix was a 5-star movie, easily, and it stands on its own. This one was a waste. This sequal is just the same packaging, but with nothing inside. The story goes off on tangents that really don't offer anything but pointless clichés. And then, where the story does lead... wow that's stupid. This is not even worth a rental unless you just need to see the leather and sunglasses from a few more angles (that's my second star, still got the cool look).
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Summary: Not Just Another Metaphysical Sci Fi Kung Fu Action Flick
Review: The Matrix Reloaded is the ultimate collision of video game action, convoluted comic book story lines and state of the art special effects. I actually preffered this to the original, although some of the action sequences as brilliant as they are go on a little too long. With that said however there is a 12 minute tour de force sequence on a freeway that is definately among the classic action scenes in film history. Keanu turns in another classic non-performance. He is surely the greatest anti- actor working in movies today. Laurence Fishburne smolders with his usual intensity and the movie is as interesting and mind bending as the original and the ending is a real cliffhanger that leaves you in eager anticipation of the next movie.
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Summary: They should have stopped at 1...
Review: Sure, it's better than #2 but this third and final (good) is only marginally better. It's story is about as convoluted. I suppose one could see 1-3 over and over and over and then finally make some sense of the story but the story isn't worth that much effort. The effects are good here, the best of all of them, but it shows once again that effects cannot carry a movie. As much as I wanted The Hulk to be better than it was, I cannot believe that Matrix Reloaded got better reviews than The Hulk this year because The Hulk was watchable and understandable.
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Summary: Mixed
Review: Honestly, watching this movie the second time on DVD made more sense, although I initially watched it to make sure I understand the Revolutions better. Reloaded was a flop, yes. The whole plot only grew at the last half and hour, and it really grew big. The first hour was verrry lengthy, and I really doubt any philosophical insights took place during the first half. The CGIs were bad, that much I can tell. The first matrix did not dwell in technologies humans have not fully conquered. but the cgi's in reloaded sucked, big time. If you can literally tell, when Neo is fake, that's pretty bad, especially for such an expensive costing movie like this. Overall, it was ok, because reloaded and revolutions are actually one big movie split into two, so it's understandable why the plot on this one came only later. And what's with the sex scene? and the girl eating the cake? that was out of context, man. come on, you can do better than that, can you wachowski bros? u didn't need the geeky sex scene at all. we all know those 2 were in love and making love. and what's with the rave? we're going to war, so lets party? reloaded was, undeniably a dissapointment. contrary to popular opinions, i don't think revolutions was bad at all. yes, it still was far than the first one, but it was ok. the plot was evened out, and no crappy scenes, and less crappy CGIs. I do suggest watching Reloaded for the heck of it. It is relatively a good movie, as long as you don't compare it with the first one.
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Summary: The downhill slide...
Review: The Matrix was a great, self-contained Sci-Fi movie. It had a beginning, middle, and end, and spent most of that time kicking you in the head courtesy of wild beat-downs and gun fu. And although it had its logical flaws (entropy, anyone?) it was a clever premise well executed.It is sadly apparent that The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revollutions did not "need" to be made, except insofar as folks wanted to make it a franchise to print more money. Reloaded is an aimless, sterilized mess of a movie, with unexpectedly *bad* CGI in places and none of the raw punch of The Matrix. It takes too long to go nowhere, and is only saved by its hinting at Something Really Cool to come later. Unfortunately, the possibilities it hints at never come to pass... Revolutions winds up so straightforwardly dumb that even the watered-down Reloaded only sets you up for a letdown at the end of this exercise in cashing in impersonating a "deep" Sci-Fi experience. But that's another review.
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Summary: see it
Review: yes its not as good as the first but its still a good movie. if u like the first you might like this but im noy making any garenties. keanus acting is even more stiff than that of the first and this time around even the suporting cast seems a little stiff also. the new characters do absolutly nothing. but the actyion is great and the story remains solid. it gets 3 and a half stars
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Summary: What a letdown!! Caddyshack II was better.
Review: Ok, maybe not. But this was a pretty uninspiring movie. Made me want to wait till the third one comes on DVD before seeing it. The DVD doesn't have a lot of extras on it, as it may appear. Buy it used, if you buy it at all. Plus Keanu gives his best performance since Bill & Ted Excellent Adventure. He's got a big bag of nothing.
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Summary: Matrix Reloaded....is this empire all over again?
Review: I'm going to open by saying i really enjoyed this movie. I have heard other people say it wasn't good, it sucked, whatever. i don't feel that way. If we go back in time to 1980, people said the same things about The Empire Strikes Back. This is because both films ask more questions than they answer. The effects in Reloaded were better than the first most times, although a few scenes i found to be lacking after a second or third viewing. Without giving away any of the film, I'll just say pay attention to the dialog. There are some really interesting twists and explanations. This is one of those rare films, like the first one, that bears repeat viewing. I totally recommend this movie.
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Summary: metaphysics with a side order of WHOOP
Review: The middle episode of "The Matrix" saga ramps the action up over the first movie but alsp its resort to philosophizing. ["The Matrix" for those who haven't braved any of the flicks, refers to a virtual-reality prison run by a huge artificial intelligence that rules Earth in some distant and dark future. "The Machines", relying on the naturally generated electricity of human beings for sustenance, keep them hooked into the Matrix - they need us alive and use the Matrix to keep us from thinking of escaping. Inside the Matrix, life appears pretty much as it should at the end of 20th century - not even those who escaped the Matrix know what century they really exist in. Those who question the reality of the Matrix from the inside face the wrath of "The Agents" - brutally effective AI programs that can bend the laws of reality in the Matrix to suit their needs. Zion, A huge underground society populated by escapees of the Matrix, fights a seemingly futile war against the machines. Among Zion's chief warriors is Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) who believes that Keannu Reeves character "Mr. Anderson" (aka "Neo") is fated to lead mankind to victory over the machines both from within the Matrix and the real world. At the end of the first movie (I haven't seen "Revolutions" yet) Neo evolves into a super-being within the Matrix, able to bend the laws of reality in that virtual reality world.] Got it? In "Reloaded", Neo and Morpheus take the fight to "The Source" of the Matrix. Who or what the Source is isn't important - only that Neo and Morpheus must attain the knowledge to find him in the Matrix. With an army of Sentinel robots (dispatched by The Machines) bearing down on Zion, getting to Source is their only apparent hope. In the face of extinction, Morpheus is nevertheless upbeat (for Morpheus that is - those who remember him in the first flick will be reminded of his characteristically stone-faced temperament). Morpheus believes in the prophecy of salvation, and that predestination ensures the survival of mankind. In true videogame tradition, accessing the source will require our heroes to embark on many other death-defying missions - they will need to locate a higher-level program known as the "Keymaker" (not to be confused with the "Keymaster" from the first "Ghostbusters"). Unlike the many human beings who are imprisoned w/I the Matrix, the Keymaker is a "program" - a form of AI within the Matrix who knows its ins and outs but, unfortunately for him, has been marked for obsolescence. To get the Keymaker, Neo and Morpheus will need to liberate him from within the Matrix where he is being held by a character called Merovingian - who appears to be a human who attained much of Neo's power to bend the Matrix to his will, but lacking Neo's moral compunction to liberate humanity from it (we learn this early on when the Merovingian alters a chocolate dish to give a lovely blonde more than just a chocolate buzz). Topically enough, the French-speaking Merovingian is an arrogant and egotistical lout who doesn't bend to Neo's unilateral demands for the Keymaker. The mission will also force Morpheus to desperate ends - leading to an epic car chase on a freeway inside of the Matrix (within the virtual world, freeways are deadly because they are so full of people who can be substituted with Agents). They will also have to face the dreaded Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) - a formidable AI program thought destroyed at the end of the last movie. Instead, Smith seems not only liberated from the Matrix, but more powerful as well - now able to turn his victims within the Matrix into clones of himself. But the most desperate end may be the one in which our heroes confront the Source itself and learn that while destiny is very well, it is not a source of hope for beleaguered humanity. This was an excellent film, though it's easy to see why it may have turned off many who fell in love with the first movie. The script doesn't have that many scenes in which art-school or coffee-house metaphysics overwhelms the action, but the few there are a leaden and nearly bring the flick to a stop. Neo's meeting with the Source seems especially flat to a generation of us who went into "Empire Strikes Back" thinking Darth Vader killed Luke Skywalker's father. The action scenes are spectacular but also mechanical (it's hard not to think of them as artificial when the plot sets the most action within a computer). Agent Smith is still wicked bad mostly because of Hugo Weaving's dead-on delivery, but the script gives him little to do besides cloning himself and trying to nail Neo (Smith complains that he now lacks purpose - a fact that the script unwisely reminds us; Smith, despite being AI, possessed an almost human compulsion to purposefulness in the first movie, a factor that made him especially compelling. The biggest botch of "Reloaded" is its failure to highlight the differences between the virtual and the real - in the virtual world, our heroes are heroic, stylish, powerful and formidable. Nothing we see in the "real world" juxtaposes the illusory strengths of our heroes' virtual selves - we never see them failing to prove that they can't jump around in the real world as they do w/i the Matrix, or that they can't take risks in love and war in reality as they do in the Matrix. As for style, there's a scene early on in which the denizens of Zion, hopped up on Morpheus's talk of inevitable triumph, dance the night away in a scene that makes you wonder whether their existence itself is only virtual as well ("Rave Against the Machine"?). That said, it's still a great entry in a clever series. Though owing much of its concept to the "cyberpunk" genre, the Matrix series avoids the technobabble kiss of death that turned off many would-be William Gibson fans within the first few pages of books like "Johnny Mnemonic" or "Neuromancer". Considering how technology is at the heart of the matrix, the script makes the action look as low-tech as possible (programs don't look like supermen w/i the Matrix - even the Keymaker looks like a tired old man) I caught this flick on WS DVD and can't imagine having to watch it (as it's typically shown on cable) in full-screen.
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