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Summary: Excellent!! A must see film!
Review: Sci-fi at it's best. I have seen it over and over and plan to watch it many more times once I get the video. Everytime you watch you catch something new.
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Summary: Great, fellow sci-fi fans --- but DO pay attention!
Review: Sci-fi fans will appreciate (and likely recognize) the basic plot and subplots of this film. It's clearly destined to become a sci-fi (cult?) classic. 'Compelling story and great effects. But don't look away for a moment! Even when you stay glued to the screen, you're likely to suffer lingering questions. Quite a few threads remain unravelled. As much as I enjoyed Matrix, I believe they've left lots of room for a sequel which could lead us to richer fields of thought than the first "episode" did! Gutsy production -- go for it.
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Summary: WOW, WOW and more WOW!
Review: Sci-fi movies have become a boring and mindless parade of special effects with no plot. This is DEFINATELY NOT the case with The Matrix. This movie provides both eye-popping effects with a highly involving plotline full of twists and tricks. Mr. Reeves is of course both rugged and engaging. However it is the full cast of supporting characters that round out this totally satisfying futurerama thrill ride. The characters of Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) are the most absorbing. Watch it on the biggest screen you can find! VERY good stuff!
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Summary: ..watch for the woman in the red dress..
Review: Science Fiction is a story which can be accomplished without the assist of 'magic'.. although there are some that would say that the Matrix could never happen.. I would challenge that assumption... neuro-interfaces today that could very well be the forerunner of things to come in this area.The film has a lil bit for everyone and is handled quite well.. you have the techie stuff, the conflict, suspense, action.. the only thing lacking as the family pet in peril. The special effect, a necessary component in any movie it seems now-a-days are well done and add to the overall impact of the movie. The interesting premise of this movie, is that the 'reality' that we take for granted each day... is in fact a hoax.. the sensations we experience... the sight, the touch, the smell, the taste, what we hear... are all simulated ... fabricated by a massive computer system running the this 'Matrix' program. Watching the movie provides the diversion we are looking for.. but soon after, at least for a moment, causes us to question our own reality.. ".. what if... what if this was happening to 'me'... how would I know.. ? .." Most will not allow much energy to be devoted to considering such an alternative.. but the fact that they consider it at all.. is to the credit of how the movie was presented. Excellent film.. could never happen for real... right?... (keep an eye out for the woman in the red dress... just in case).
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Summary: Forget my first review(I love this movie)
Review: Scratch everything I said in my first review. The special effects in this movie are great. The Wachowski brothers struck gold with this dazzling sci-fi thriller. The actors make the story have depth and feeling. Mind blowing special effects cap off this 5 star movie.
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Summary: The Matrix
Review: See it, Love it, Live it.
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Summary: A must own movie. Great story line. Great special effects
Review: Seeing this movie in a theater with stadium seating was fantastic. Just as good as a thrill ride in an amusement park. Saw it three times in theaters and it just got better. Mind bending plot. A movie you can tell someone the story line and not ruin the movie. Special effects like no other. DVD was a big big disappointment because it won't run correctly on my IBM ThinkPad 770. Movie skips and then the voice and video tracks get out of sync. IF ANYONE CAN HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM LET ME KNOW.
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Summary: It's been a long time since I've seen a movie more then once
Review: Seldom, if ever, Sci-Fi is done properly. Cyber-punk even less, if ever. The last time a serious high quality-covered-all-corners sci-fi cyber-punk movie had a release was Blade Runner, which people often tag as cyber-punk, but really isn't. (William Gibson reportedly cried after viewing Blade Runner, seeing his vision blown up on the screen.) Alas comes The Matrix. A film that puts cyber-punk on the map of greaat movies. The film is the information age' Alice in Wonderland. (you even have a great looking white rabbit.)It does not drop the ball anywhere in the film. The effects are good, the acting is good (Even K.Reeves), The characters are great, (I thought the little twist on the "Oracle" was delicious irony, The artist that played it awesome...)Thank you, Wachowski brothers. William Gibson would have blown his brains out. -G.K.
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Summary: ... state of the art ...DVD
Review: Seven words : "boombastic sound and amazing quality ... phat story ! " Don't miss it ! til now I've seen 28 times .... phantastic
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Summary: Restored my faith in SF Movies
Review: SF Movies have suffered from a lack of style in recent years. There's only so many times you can see Bladerunner or Alien ripped off cheaply before you start to get jaded. And it doesn't help that they keep casting muscular dolts with the intellect of a plank in violent revenge fantasies that do little more than ape the "Death Wish" movies. So it's three cheers for The Matrix, the film that restored my faith in SF movies. It starts with a bang, a chase across rooftops with some spectacular leaps that make you realise that wherever you are, it's not the world you live in. Or is it? Neo (or is that Neophyte?) is a programmer by day in a faceless corporation, and a hacker by night, searching for Morpheus, a shadowy figure who may hold the key to Neo's longings for a different world. Morpheus on the other hand is looking for a Saviour, someone who will come and lead the oppressed masses to a new Utopia. Soon their paths cross, and Neo is shown the real world, a world that is not all he thought it to be. In this world everything is run by "The Matrix", a super computer that controls everything and everybody, body and soul. (Or, as the Oracle so succinctly puts it, "Balls to Bones") Neo is removed from the system's influence, and is told he is "The One", the long-prophesised saviour who can remake the Matrix to his own will. He is trained in how to fight the Matrix defense programs (or "Agents".....software that takes the guise of super-powerful humans and can take control of anybody still hooked up to the Matrix) To accomplish this he is given a crash course in martial arts in a manner that would be great if it were possible today (I can imagine the ads - "Learn Kung-Fu in thirty seconds....no philosophising necessary!") . Once he reintroduces himself to the Matrix's world the stage is set for some climactic fight scenes, among the best ever seen in cinema history. To say more would be to give away too much of the plot, but suffice to say The Matrix is one of the biggest, most explosive, most stylish SF films ever. It succeeds where lesser films fail by melding a hi-tech glossy look with martial arts battles familar to Hong-Kong film lovers, and overlaying the whole thing with a mythic plot of the Saviour who is slowly coming to realise his destiny. Even the names hold a mythic quality to them, from Morpheus, the god of sleep who knows who is dreaming and who is awake, to Cipher who is not all he seems, to Trinity, the embodiment of child, mother and lover and finally Neo, the classic neophyte trying to find a path through the mysteries. The ancient Greeks would have had no trouble in following the basics of this story. Reeves has never been better, portraying confusion and frailty one minute, strength and resolve the next. But it is Fishburne's movie....it is his presence that holds the whole thing together and keeps you rivetted to your seat. All that and a shadowing of a peril coming to Zion, the last stronghold of the true believers, and we're all set up for a blockbuster of a sequel. I can't wait. Couple that with an outstanding directors talk-over, and an ingenious "follow the white rabbit" extras feature that lets you cut in and view how any particular effect or stunt was achieved, and you have a DVD that's hard to ignore for quality, quantity and entertainment. All that, loads of black leather gear, big boots and guns. What more do you want? And any film that contains a clip of the cult classic "Night of the Lepus" is always going to be worth a look.
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