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Summary: Great Effects, absolutely silly story
Review: My favorite reviews here are the ones that go something like:"So, like, it made me think or something about, like, what is reality? This movie is so real because, like, you never know, you know. And there's all these computers and stuff?" Dude! You are soooo right! Worst script ever? Quite possibly. Extremely flat character development. Naive premises. Non-stop nonsequiturs. PokeMon for growed-ups: make the plot so tangled and arcane that the viewer is so fill with a sense of accomplishment simply by being able to follow the plot hierarchy that they never notice that it goes... nowhere. PokeMon!
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Summary: This movie had possibilities, but ultimately...it sucked!
Review: My god--over 2,000 reviews for this movie!?...and most of them raves? Maybe we really do live in a society run by artificial intelligence, as this grossly overrated movie's convoluted plot suggests. There were some promising ideas in this movie, such as the notion that artificial intelligence evolved from humankind's own creation, into nature's way of eliminating the blight that humankind has become on mother earth. Fascinating concept, but with its glut of overblown special effects ultimately lapsing into SciFi cheese, and plot turns folding in on themselves until they collapse under their own weight, this movie was just another glaring example of Hollywood 2000: self indulgent FX, convolluted plots, mostly crummy music, and a movie at least a half hour too long for its storyline, finally culminating in a lousy ending. When Hollywood finally learns that "less is more" it may very well be one of the final signs of the apocalypse. Sometimes I long for the days when they could make a good 90-minute movie (and I'm really not that old). This movie actually got my interest back, and lost it again, at least twice over the course of the circuitous storyline, but too often fell back on old SciFi cliches, lengthy explanatory soliloquys to TELL what the convoluted plot couldn't possibly SHOW, and flashy special FX, all of which made me long for one of those good old half hour Twilight Zone, "is reality just a dream" episodes. I am not nearly as much of a movie buff as my wife (she thought it sucked, too, though), and my idea of good SciFi is old TZ, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Planet of the Apes, but I think this is may be the worst SciFi movie I've seen in at least 20 years. At one point, at just before the two hour mark in the movie, I said to my wife, who was almost dozing by that time, "Okay, this has almost become a decent movie, but if it goes on for another half hour, it sucks." She said, "You know it will, they're not going to end it here." Sure enough, a half hour later I'm looking at another stupid, non sequitur Hollywood ending--all-too-appropriately accompanied by some "Nu Metal" crap for end title music. What I find much more societally unsettling than this movie's scenario, is that so many people thought this movie was great. I wonder how many of those people were able to follow the storyline at all; and how many just liked it because of the glut of FX, the idea of artificial intelligence taking over reality, and yet another in a long line of Nu Metal and Industrial-dominated soundtracks. The REAL Matrix is an entertainment industry that keeps feeding stuff like this to an audience that just keeps mindlessly saying, "Thank you, sir, might I have another?"
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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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