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Summary: excellent
Review: absolutely the best movie i have seen in a long while. It not only makes you think deeply, but entertains as well.
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Summary: In my opinion, better than Terminator 2 and all other Sci Fi
Review: Absolutely thrilling special effects, great story and awesome music score. Favorite parts for maximum sound effects are the rescue sequences including the shootout in the lobby of the captive building and the helicopter crash. Anyone watching this movie and listening to it through regular TV speakers are missing more than half of the movie. Although the visuals are excellent, the sound heard through a good sound system including subwoofer cannot be beat. I live in an apartment and luckily I don't have complaining neighbors, so I can crank the sound sometimes and I do it often. I have watched this movie more than five times already, and still can't wait to see it again.
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Summary: Good for people who like these kind of movies
Review: According to the commercials and previews before this movie came out, it look real cool with a lot of action. But when I saw the movie finally it didn't have a lot of action as in the commercial. Not till the end is where there's action, but the battles don't last long enough in the movie and there isn't enough. The plot wasn't that interesting either.The only thing I thought was cool was the special effects and action scenes. If you really like computer art, weird, and sci-fi movies, The Matrix is for you.
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Summary: Whoa.....
Review: Actually, the title of my review wasn't what I thought of the movie, I was just quoting some of Keau Reeves's "witty dialogue". Everybody has raved about this movie and aside from some of the very good digital effects, the plot is completely bad and Keanu Reeves is the worst actor this side of William Shatner. Besides the point the story is a complete rip off of Grant Morrison's comic book "The Invisibles", which is infinitly better than this movie could ever dream to be (this is for you Grant, buddy). And the ending where he flies off after making the phone call is so absolutely LAME! Perhaps Keanu's moves in the movie seems "Faster than a speeding bullet" thanks to the breakthough of digital technology, but his acting sure isn't.
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Summary: Add it to your collection.
Review: Add this movie to your collection.
I would call it a classic if it was older.
A pure adrenaline rush of a movie.
I don't remember breathing the first time I watched it.
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Summary: Refreshing Science Fiction
Review: After a long day at work, it's refreshing to watch a movie with a mind dazzling story-line, backed up by great graphical and sound effects. I'm glad I bought it.
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Summary: Worth a viewing but overhyped
Review: After all the good things I heard about this movie, I was disappointed. Although it borrows ideas and scenes liberally from most major sci-fi films (Blade-Runner,Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Terminator, V, etc.) and quite a few anime (Megazone 23, Ghost in the Shell, Akira), it doesn't skillfully blend them. It does manage to put forth some good ideas, unusual for Hollywood, but many of these ideas have already been explored in the aforementioned sci-fi films and anime. But whenever the plot runs a little thin we are treated to lengthy fight or gunfight sequences that go overboard with slow-motion. The special effects, a strength of the movie I had heard, unfortunately try too hard to impress. Gratuitous panning shots while a character remains motionless in the air were old when Gap used them in commercials. The effects too often fall flat because they are shown at the expense of the cinematography: a woman jumps from one building to another and we are shown this from above rather than an angle that would show us how truly impressive such a long leap would be. The one lesson filmmakers should learn from George Lucas is that special effects should push the story forward rather than be the story. This and simplicity are the key to using great special effects in a film. The acting seems to have not been a consideration, and the dialogue was quite weak: There were a couple of moments when a good character rose to the occasion of finishing off an evil character, but not without first saying a cheesy line (why not just shoot them without talking?) The Matrix has a good concept going but ultimately drops it in favor of gunfights, explosions and action, which is fine if you're 12 and that's what you're looking for.
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Summary: but i've already seen total recall
Review: After having heard from everyone I know that this movie was going to blow my mind and change the way I think, I was very dissapointed. Yes, the special effects are incredible, but for the love of pete people, Total Recall already did the whole what we see may only be illusion concept (and Descartes did it much further back with Meditations on First Philosophy). If you want to watch a mindless sci fi shoot 'em up action flick and still think you are smart because it has such a "deep" meaning behind it, then by all means see this movie. Otherwise don't waste your time. The fact that Keanu is front and center on the cover ought to say something. And if you just want to see Carrie Anne Moss (sp?), see Memento instead. At least that has something interesting to say about memory and the idea of narrative structure.
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Summary: Matrix changed my life!!!
Review: After having seen Matrix, I felt spiritually relieved, satisfied with life, strong and compelled to do good to all living beings. I started getting religious insights watching this movie, and after having seen it 5 times in movie theatres, I truly feel the deeper meaning of (true) christianity and humanity, my look at the world and religion has lighted up and given me reason to hope and live! But why?? This movie seems to be pure violence and technical disaster on the surface!? I figured that it might be that the final message of Matrix is that good overcomes evil, love instills life in the seemingly dead, that helping and fighting for God will succeed in the end. The comparative message of Star Wars 1 (not 4,5,6) is that evil tricks you, gambling is nessesary and helpful, innocent children are doomed to betray their fathers and that even though you fight, you will lose and the Dark Lord takes over control of the universe. When I look upon the characters in Matrix as biblical - and pardon me for eventual blasphemy - the Holy Script was revealed before me! (which I eventually have never bothered to read before...) Neo, the Man, the prophesized (!) return of Jesus turned into Christ, come to redeem the world and overthrow the dark. Trinity, the Holy Spirit, love, the mother, notice how the movie does not mention sex at all - she can thus be seen as virgin Mary, dressed according to the likes of the target audience, but inwardly saintly, her name pointing towards the wholy trinity of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. She has always full trust in Neo and gives him food where none other does. Morpheos, in appearance cloaked as a human, does not break, only seemingly - as a means to awaken Neo and others, a gentle and compassionate God, giving humans the offer of using their free will in the choice of waking up to Him! Notice how the agents cannot break His mind, but then shifts to make Him use His compassion for even these dark beings. They try to make Him say the Word that will undo the world. The traitor, eating red bloody meat, drinking alcohol, and speaking with the agent named Smith (5 letter S name!) - this Judas is revenged upon, but is the indirect cause of Neo having to wake up and fight the evil. Notice how he persuades Neo to run away from and fear the agents! The other 'diciples' of the ship of liberty (Noahs Ark) are all nice, tolerant, humble, accepting what God puts before them (Morpheus is their entrusted leader) and do joke but not complain about the water and bread (simple white nourishing substance) they have to eat, at that last supper!!! As others have stated, 5 stars are too few, I must get this dvd and find a dvd-player for it, allthough it truly belongs to the thx theatre! This is my best movie experience ever!!! christian (ironically;)
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Summary: For those who like a good plot with an action flick.
Review: After hearing all the hype on the Matrix for the past three and a half years, I finally got to see it for myself--and, I'll tell you, it was well worth my time. The plot involves a man named Thomas Anderson. He's an average guy that works at an average office--until he receives a phone call from a strange man named Morpheus. When the two meet, Morpheus shows Anderson (now going by the name of Neo) that his life is not real--it's actually the Matrix, a computer program set up by machines so that they could blind the humans from the truth. I won't tell you too much, but chances are your mind's boggling already. I truly have to give props for the incredible action scenes and great choice of actors.
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