Rating: 
Summary: DVD doesn't work on all players
Review: The morons that produced this hack of a title has chosen to infect it with more unplayable bugs, that it's blowing up on MANY DVD players including Pioneer, Samsung, GE, Phillips, Toshiba and many others.Perhaps someday they'll decide that this is a movie format and not some excuse to over-trick out someone's player into the trashpile. Until then the format is dodgey at best. And now? It's unplayable - a nice bookend of a release awaiting an upgrade to my DVD player as dictated by some production nerds at Warner Brothers. frigging joy!
Rating: 
Summary: PERFECT IN ALL AREAS
Review: The most accurate "barometer" of MATRIX is my wife's enthusiam about this movie. Ordinarily, she can't stand techno/science fiction films. She turns her nose up at action-adventure movies. In fact, her idea of a good movie is a documentary like PANAMA DECEPTION or ROGER AND ME. So when I imposed MATRIX on her it was impressive to see how she responded to the artistry embedded in the special effects that make this film so special. Like me, she loved it. Directors Andy and Larry Wachowski do a superb job of sqeezing every ounce of the considerable talents from Laurence Fishburne who plays Morpheus, and Keanu Reeves playing Neo. Only Neo can save the world from cosmic evil, and he doesn't know it. After finding him, Morpheus must find a way to get Neo to accept not only the awsome responsibilty of saving the world from a cosmic evil, but do so by unleashing powers that Neo cannot, at first, believe he possesses. [Perhaps this too is a metaphor for the classical notion, there is more capacity in each of us than we know]. The daytime, computer hacking Neo is recruited by Trinity (played with great drama by the severly punk gorgeous Carrie-Anne Moss). Morpheus is a sort of prophet-leader of those who can flow between an electronic ether and the so-called real world. Underneath the well choreographed, costumed and incredible sets in which the cyberspace action-adventure is played out there flows a commentary on the banality and annonymity of modern urban life. We the audience are permitted to observe the action and violent pursuit of the characters against a strange backdrop of the mundane world ... the world outside of our living rooms and theaters. Everyday life on the street goes on routinely and monotonously as the forces of good and evil do battle all around "us": on the streets, in subways and down back alleys ... and in the electronic fields that surround our everyday life. MATRIX is more than a feast for the eyes expanded by a brain message. It is science fiction theater at its best!
Rating:
Summary: incomprehensible
Review: The most incomprehensible plot since 'Mission Impossible'. I mean, what the hell is going on? How dare they subject us to this? The only nice thing I can say about the movie is Laurence Fishburn's voice & diction. Otherwise, awful!
Rating:
Summary: Kung fu fighting!
Review: The most overrated film in recent memory makes its debut on video. Big deal! Sets are stolen from "Metropolis", "Brazil" and "2001". Script is stolen from Hindu scripture. Acting is stolen from "The Pretentious School of Something Important is Going On Here, Ha Ha." And Keanu Reeves is the worst actor ever to appear on film, besides also-rans like Martin Milner. The only exhilarating moment of this ponderous, stupid movie is when the Oracle (oh, what a surprise, she's a cookie-baking, cigarette-smoking blue-collar woman) tells Keanu, "You're cuter than I thought," and then, a moment later, "You're not too bright." I wasted two hours of my life with this movie and am spending another five minutes to warn others to STAY AWAY!
Rating:
Summary: The major disappointment.
Review: The most pretentious, tasteless and pseudo-meaningful movie I've seen.I can explain it's success only by the lack of something better. If it was to be released in the summer of 1997 it would be no match to The Fifth Element,Men In Black and Face\Off. The plot is a total patchwork of "Zen Made Simple" and "Aliens Rule The Earth" brochures. What is The Matrix? - is the most annoying and stupid question with nothing behind it. The fighting sequences are pathetic. Of course I know that the Chinese martial artists train from 2-3 year old and Keanu Reeves had only 2-3 months to learn the moves but does it mean we have to appreciate his laughable efforts? Laughable is the key word if you want to survive this pure gem of bad taste and intellectual inferioriity. My favourite scene takes place in a car where two ladies forcefully extract the slimy insect from Keanu's navel. They use the strange gadget probably obtained from the nearest sex-shop and poor guy looks as if he is afraid of being castrated right on spot. And for the first few seconds the ladies do nothing to dispel his fears. It's so delightfully stupid! The costume design is just horrendous. Do they really think that black leather and black glasses make it's wearer stylish no matter what they say and do?
Rating:
Summary: to you like to see the world in different way
Review: the movie "the matrix" makes the person who watches see the world in a different way and a guess about the future of the world.
The movie is about the people who take one person from the digital world to the real world and he discovers that he is not a normal man.
The acting was real and the special effects were amazing.
Rating:
Summary: IS WAS A GREAT MOVIE
Review: THE MOVIE GAVE A LOT OF INSIGHT OF THE FUTURE THE BEST MOVIE THAT I SEEN SO FAR
Rating:
Summary: A very hip, action packed sci-fi thriller!
Review: The movie in the theaters was a totally new experience. Within the first half hour I thought this movie was going to be one of the worst I'd ever seen, but as it progressed and everything started to make sense, it turned out to be one of the best action/sci-fi movies I've ever seen. The DVD is packed with behind the scenes clips, music only track, commentary track, and scenes that show how they created the special effects. This movie is only the beginning of what future action/sci-fi movies will bring us in the new millenium.
Rating: 
Summary: Inter-Dimensional Travel.
Review: The movie is aptly named. The Matrix (or rather the Transposition Matrix) allows you to move from one Frame of Reference (as in Einstein's Theory of Relativity) to another, where each Frame of Reference is considered to be a Vector. The special effects are superb and the story-line was generally good - there was sufficient unpredictabilty that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the movie. The only thing that I could not quite comprehend, was how a taking red pill would allow a person to transpose from one Frame of Reference to another, or why one Frame of Reference would be considered "real" and the other "unreal" and why it was necessary to annihilate the Matrix. The movie forces the viewer to accept the assumption that one Frame of Reference is not real and that the Matrix should be annihilated. I gave it a four star rating because while it was thrilling and exciting - I felt a bit more could have been done with regards to the science-fiction portion of the movie.
Rating:
Summary: EXCEPTIONAL
Review: The movie is good, I give it that but it's true, some of the DVD copies or all, do have bugs in them. Some might freeze up in the chapters, or just not play the whole movie. My guess is wait for the 2nd Region of Matrix DVD copies to come out. The bugs should be worked out by then....
| 
