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Summary: Too ignorant to get it.
Review: My heading says it all. If you didn't like the Matrix it's probably because you're too ignorant to understand the concept of artificial intelligence and most of all, a different perspective at your everyday, routine and boring life. The movie was excellent and extremely thought provoking. Can't wait for a sequel or a prequel. Can you image a movie of the same impact dealing with the war between the computers and the humans (prequel) or a movie when Neo knows of his powers and uses them fight the computer intelligence? (sequel)
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Summary: This is a glorified video game.
Review: My low expectations for this film were not disappointed. It takes what could have been a truly compelling idea and predictably suffocates it in mediocre acting, ludicrous shootouts, and special effects overkill. As in so many other movies of its kind, thoughtful intelligence takes a back seat to theatrics and mass audience mentality-this is just so many empty visual calories. "Blade Runner", after all these years, still rules.
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Summary: Bril
Review: My name is Alan and I think this is super doope
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Summary: The Matrix is special effect specialized and then some...
Review: My opinion toward the special effects in this movie is definitely top notch and deserves all the technical academy awards it deserves. And through these special effects, it has better expressed the "what is reality" phenomenon that has been touch on before, but never in this "techno" way. However, I cannnot say the matrix is an original movie due to its ideas and plot that have been explorer before. Perhapes revolutionary to some degree, but not original. And where originality can hold its own, special effects cannot. Sooner or later, its awesome "bullet time" and subtle details will give way to even better visual and audio.If I were given 0 to 10, I would give this a 7 (where 5 is the average movie, and 10 is "movie of all movies"). The DVD in my opinion is worth getting. The picture and sound quality are REALLY GOOD.
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Summary: A Surprise Hit! Well worth adding to the home collection.
Review: My roommate saw this movie several times and told me I should see it. I had absolutely no interest in seeing it but he dragged me to the theater one day after convincing me that it would be a minor loss at the student discount rate in case I didn't like it. Boy was I surprised! Great story that makes you really think about life, spectacular special effects, superb casting. I am excited to be getting my DVD copy when it is released.
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Summary: Very, very good movie! Great fun!
Review: MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MATRIX: "Whoa." What would you say if computers controlled you? What would you say if you could defy gravity? What would you say if your life was a computer simulation? Yes, that's right. "The Matrix" is a long, intense roller coaster ride into the future. What our world is today is a dream world, and The Matrix is the real world. Keanu Reeves is Neo, who is chosen by the head of a group, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). What Morpheus tells Neo is confusing at first, but at a part where Neo meets someone called The Oracle tells him something. I won't tell you what; you have to see it for yourself. The movie doesn't really tell you what The Matrix is directly, but gives you an implication of what might control the human race in the future. Technologists think that something called Artificial Intelligence (or AI for short) will control the way of life, and that is what this movie is all about. As computers grow stronger, and, what I like to think, more intelligent, the human race dies down and gets "sucked" into them. The very Internet that you read this on would be nothing compared what it might be in 1000 years. A Pentium Processor MCMXCVIII, that makes the picture on your computer pop out into reality? Create an artificial world? What you believe about the future is the key of life. THE REVIEW: "The Matrix" is not one of those ordinary action films...terrorist threatens, guy saves whatever or whoever is in danger, or those "Save the [Insert Subject Here]" type things (Well, maybe it is a little like saving the world). But is very different. That's why it got 4 1/2 out of five. An ordinary guy, Thomas "Neo" Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is picked out by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), the head of a team that tries to overthrow an evil Matrix to save the new one. The special effects are great. (I don't know if "Flo-Mo" is trademarked by the Wachowski brothers or not) What I mean by "Flo-Mo" is the so-called "Bullet Time" sequence, where Neo dodges bullets. Also, I can't imagine the vigorous training that went into performing the Kung Fu and other karate moves. This is the first movie of its kind that the REAL actors do their own moves. This movie should be a big hit across the Pacific. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) were a great pair-up for this movie. It is hard to explain the movie in a review, because there isn't anything to review other than the theme of the story, but it was good. It is probably the best science fiction movie I've seen. The movie is based on playing a game on the computer, about virtual reality. So, what is The Matrix? I can sum it up in 2 words: SEE IT (and buy it on DVD September 21st!).
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Summary: THERE ARE ALREADY 1670 REVIEWS FOR THIS MOVIE...SO HERE IS
Review: MY TWO CENTS. I loved this movie as did my eight year old son. The interesting thing to me was that my son usually finds these types of movies "scary" because of their intensity. He adored this one, in fact he considers it his favorite movie... I think it was a combonation of the wonderful special effects, the story, and the fact that there wasn't gore for gore's sake... Enjoy this movie 1,671 people can't be wrong!
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Summary: If bullet time doesn't blow you away, the software will...
Review: My wife and I saw it in the movie theater and wanted to see it again. A sci fi thriller to say the least. The effects are state of the art. The software is intense too. The production release I own, makes my early model DVD fail (freeze or lock up) in three different scenes. This material is notorious as an MPEG buster. If your DVD player can't play this movie end to end without stoping, then it might be time for a software (or hardware) upgade for that clunky old DVD player. The fight scenes aren't the only thing that can deliver a death blow. My wife always wanted to see what Keanu Reeves would look like clean shaven and dipped in goo. Way too many bullets for young kids.
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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: My wife and I saw this opening day while we were visitng Toronto. I was suprised the theater wasn't packed with all the publicity this film got. Either way, it was a knockout. We loved this movie for all it's special effects and action. Although I'm not a Keanu fan, he did play admirably. Lawrence Fishbourne was the true star of this film. Once you watch this movie you'll be forever wondering if we are also part of a matrix.
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Summary: Burroughs Re-Visited
Review: Naked Lunch, a novel by William Burroughs, described the events leading to the murder of a federal narcotics agent. Written in varying stages of substance abuse, especially alcohol and heroin, Naked Lunch attempts to present the bizarre alternate reality of the drug world, along with its rationalization of the crime. The agent had grown bad: simultaneously overzealous and corrupt. His addiction was the junkies of Washington Square Park, and he fed on them the way the centium programs in the Matrix fed on the sleeping humans of the 22nd century. The victim there was not an indestructible cyborg, but the killer in the Burroughs' novel was tacitly aware that the crime could potentially bring the formidable power of the Vietnam era federal government into the heart of their relatively secure underground world. Neo, the drug-awakened killer in The Matrix, conversely realizes that the murder of the guardian will almost immediately bring about the collapse of the machine government. According to the plot, at some point in the 21st century a war erupted between the people and the machines. The machines won, but their domination was incomplete: a single city, Zion, located so deeply underground that their energy source is radiation from the Earth's core, kept alive the resistance movement that Neo - ostensibly a computer programmer/hacker of the late 20th century - is fated to lead to violent victory. In the course of his drug-aided virtual-reality apotheosis, Neo ignores the attention of the female lead, a very sexy, kick-boxing, gun-toting ex-hacker. The film could use a little more romance and a little less violence, but that is beside its main point. The Matrix suggests that there is something very wrong with our humdrum lives, while making it abundantly clear that it questions American culture without providing any satisfactory alternative. As it film, it relies heavily on groovy special effects in its crazy-quilt re-presentation of liberal borrowings. I am inclined toward the harshest possible criticism of this film, however, many people (far more hip than I) think it is the cat's meow. Thus, it is likely that it is I who have become the automoton that needs to lighten up and enjoy an essentially old-fashioned low-budget American movie.
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