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Summary: An incredibly original and innovative adventure
Review: The Matrix is a one of a kind action film which takes the viewer into a sort of alternate reality, while painting the real world as a fictitious computer program. The characters take martial arts and gunfighting to a whole new level with their computer enhanced powers. All of this adds up to an adventure like no other. If you have not seen this film it is a must see for anyone who likes action/science fiction films. It is one of, if not the best film in its class.
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Summary: Better than your average action movie.
Review: The Matrix is a refreshingly different kind of film, in that it does not abide to the by-the-numbers antics of most other action flicks, which only try to dazzle a viewer with explosions and gunfire. The Matrix does unfortunately have all of that, but there is also a backbone to the carnage. The story is not the most original, and the Wachowski brothers seem more eager to show fight scenes (the martial arts battles ARE mind-boggling) and mayham rather than continue developing their story. There are many visuals here that might remind some viewers of scenes from Terminator 2, Dark City, and other films as well. In fact, The Matrix was filmed in Sydney where Dark City was, and actually re-uses some of the sets, including the giant stairs and rooftop. The plot is somewhat similar to Dark City, but not entirely. The Matrix isn't simply a dirivitive action movie. The plot is entertaining, if not very original or involving. There are two sequels on the way. Hopefully they will continue to enrich the story and further it along instead of simply exploiting all of the ground-breaking effects which this chapter introduced, like so many movies and TV shows are doing now. Come to think of it, do we really need the sequels? I think the ending to this one put a lid on things nicely.
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Summary: The Martix is so wicked awesome!
Review: The Matrix is a sci-fi, action-stuffed, hit hard movie! I totally recommend... Though it is not easy to tell what is happening the first time you see it, once you see it a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ect. time you totally get and luff it! Many people might think it's weird and it is... but weird is always best. ^^ The creators of this movie and plot are ingenius but still at the same time fun loving and unique. They love anime and wrote the whole movie on story boards in a sort of Manga style... The actors are so awesome! I think Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss totally made the part... and they're outfits really pulled they're look together. I am excited to hear that the TWO sequals are coming out May 15, 2003!! WHOOOO!! ^^ Wif the same actors and more! The Matrix Reloaded and The matrix Revolutions. It's back!
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Summary: Matrix -- A subersive and dangerous film
Review: The Matrix is a science-fiction and action film that weaves within it the message that is subersive and dangerous. This is a very enjoyable science-fiction film that explores the nature of reality.Neo is the hero (his name means NEW or CHANGE) and he is contacted by Morpheus -- the most dangerous man alive, and a terrorist. The movie is subversive in a very clever way, the hereos are terrorists who are willing and able to gun down security agents and law officers. They state that if you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. The film is very cleverly anti-government, and anti-law, and promotes voilence against the governement and the populace. This is a brilliant film that should be watched by everyone. You can simply watch it as a science-fiction action film, or you can understand the philosophical and mystical messages in it, or finally the revelation: the political and social messages in it. You need to watch the film at least three times, and listen to the dialogue carefully to understand it. This film demands multiple viewings, and is a film that should be owned. With the layers of meanings in the film, and the messages weaved into the story, it makes for a very watchable film. The special effects are also brilliant, as are the sets.
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Summary: On my Top Ten List for 1998
Review: The Matrix is a stunning sci-fi thriller from the remarkable Wachowski brothers, who CO-wrote and CO-directed it. With just a couple of small independent films under their belts, the Wachowskis were somehow able to propel themselves into the front line of big budget film making. So skittish was the management team at Warner Brothers over the project that it opted to take on an Australian finical partner. Making The Matrix in Australia further lowered Warner's risk. Now that the film is a worldwide smash hit, the company must split the profits and the credit. Welcome to the New Hollywood, a place run by business types who make decisions based not on gut instinct, but on a wealth of computer data. Ironically, The Matrix is about the fate of a world that carries its reliance on computers too far. The movie opens in the year 1999. Or is it 1999 at all? We find Tom Anderson living two lives. By day he is an employee at a powerful software company. By night he is a computer hacker known as Neo. Without giving the plot away, I can say that all his life, Anderson has felt that the world is somehow vaguely askew. In his secret life on the Internet, he has become obsessed with a man know only as Morpheus, who is wanted by the authorities for computer sabotage. One night he is lead to a disco where he meets a strange and beautiful girl called Trinity. She is also a hacker and can arrange for him to meet Morpheus. The plot then gets very thick indeed. In another irony, I have never seen a film that integrates computer graphics and effects into the story as well as The Matrix does. The subject matter demands a heavy reliance on special effects. In fact, prior to the introduction of digital technology, such a movie would have been extremely difficult to make. Its theme and tone are much like another sci-fi classic, Blade Runner, but that earlier movie did not have to bend the rules of space and time in the ways The Matrix does. Despite all it technical wizardry, The Matrix's driving force is its riveting thriller of a story. Glorious special effects, for once, enhance the memorable characters. The theme may owe its origins to the best of the comic books, but this does not detract from it, any more than it did from the first Superman and Batman movies. Keanu Reeves is excellent as Neo. It's not the kind of performance that wins an Oscar. It's the kind one remembers long after one forgets who won the Oscar. Like the late Cary Grant, Reeves is more star and personality than actor. Grant played Grant better than anyone else, and only Reeves can play Reeves. Laurence Fishburne gives his usual strong yet thoughtful performance in the role of Morpheus. Carrie-Ann Moss plays Trinity with both relish and style. The Matrix is a big, splashy show, and it is less spectacular on video than it was on the big screen. Still, most of the big events play reasonable well when shrunk down, and the story itself is perhaps a bit enhanced on video. Both a thrill ride and a thought provoking look at mankind's tenuous relationship with reality, The Matrix is unlike any movie you are likely to see this year. In fact, I haven't admired a high profile sci-fi thriller this much since Alien, Aliens and Blade Runner in the early 1980s.
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Summary: A different look at "reality"
Review: The Matrix is a thought-provoking, innovative film that causes its audience to question what is truly real around them. Keanu Reeves, who plays an introverted computer software programmer/hacker, is thrown into a world where he is shown that the world in which he has lived his whole life is nothing more than a bunch of "ones and zeros", or binary digits compiled by evil agents to create a program that is our world. This film was very well done, with amazing special effects. It includes many technological wonders, such as interactive virtual reality programs, telephones that connect two worlds, and programs that can be downloaded into one's memory. A real thriller and must-see.
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Summary: The Best Film Ever
Review: The Matrix is a truly magnificent film! From the very start I was excited, intrigued and downright gobsmacked as to the depth and feel to the film. I truly loved this flick. The funky urban feel that it had, and the effects incorporated into it were loveable. You really felt that this was going to be a good film right from the start, and I tell you now it doesnt dissapoint. I have heard some people say it wasnt what they expected and that they didnt like it but I think those people couldnt of understood the film. The concept of the film was astounding and the directors were truly instrumental in the thinking of the plot. A very clever and believable story line, especially in the mad capped corrupted world we live in nowadays. The Matrix..........it came, it impacted and by god I friggin loved it. All who has eyes should grab some popcorn and sit down and watch this flick. I cant say any more than that !
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Summary: Absolutely incredible.
Review: The Matrix is a truly magnificent piece of work. I'd have to say that it is, without a doubt, the best movie I have ever seen.
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Summary: The best Sci Fi of the decade!
Review: The Matrix is a very cool movie that makes you think. I mean the world is a big computer simulation imagaine that your able to do anything you want if your the controller its just a cool movie Neo as Keanu Reeves is awesome with his karate scenes and stuff like that so people who read this see the movie I give it everything!
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Summary: A real cool movie
Review: The Matrix is a very cool movie. It has a good plot
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