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Summary: What is the Matrix?
Review: This film was absolutly a thrill ride! With an original plot, the film takes you into a whole new dimention. This film is a sci-fi film for someone that wants to know the truth. Great special effects and a great story make this film one of a kind!
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Summary: WOW!
Review: This film was an excellent techie job. Well Done cast and crew
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Summary: Highly polished and the most exciting film of the 90'.
Review: This film was created for me to love. It's a combination of science-fiction and martial-arts, the two most important things I do in my life.Looking at the film science-fictionaly I have to say the script must have been written with outmost care and heavy thought, and by someone who has read good hard sci-fi before. There are no holes in the theory presented, and that takes thought. Often, when I see a sci-fi film, I find it's flaws in a sec, like the immposiblity of the time-loop in "12 monkies" or even "Back to the future" (Yeah, yeah, I don't take it seriously too). Any way, the sci-fi level of "The Matrix" is very high, and it's nice to watch a film you can feel was made to meet the highest standarts. On the martial-arts side, what can you say? They brought YUEN WOO PING to train the whole cast for 6 months AND do the choreography. Yuen, if you don't know, is one of Hong-Kong's leading directors and choreographers. He is the one that made Jackie Chan a star (in his film "Snake in the eagle's shadow" and later in "Drunken Master"), besides, it's about time that Holywood notice the Hong-Kong action\Martial-arts cinema, and this film is a beautyfull token of aprreciation. Another point to raise is the philosophic one. The questions posed in the film, concerning the nature of reality and how much of what we believe to be reality is objectively real, wo'nt be new to a veteran sci-fi reader (more so if he likes Philip K.Dick), but they are posed very gently and elegantly and they keep attacking the viewer throughout the film, a thing that will make a viewer that is dealing with those questions for the first time to be amazed at this new avenue of thought revealed to him. The acting is excellent, the special effects are amazing, the pace is fast, the overall experience is MINDBLOWING. See this film.
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Summary: An entertaining but lousy film when taken in context
Review: This film was, I must say, visually entertaining and the computerized effects were as good as just about anything that has come out. Sheer entertainment value, however, does not make a good film. This movie was, in fact, the worst hack off of the Hong Kong cinema tradition I have ever seen. There wasn't a single moment (that I can think of) that wasn't stolen from another artist and used in almost exactly the same way. (just less gracefully and tastefully) To see where they got the intense, double-handed pistol shootouts and dramatic slow-mo shots, see John Woo. To see where they got the high-flying wire-enhanced kung fu sequences, see Tsui Hark. To see who they are immitating in their hand to hand action, see Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, etc. To see where they took their concept of style and atmosphere, see any number of Japanese anime. For the origins of their cyber-world concept, read the novels of William Gibson. If you think the kung fu in this film was even remotely interesting, you should see the true masters do it right in films such as Fist of Legend (Jet Li), Drunken Master and Drunken Master II (Jackie Chan), Tai-chi Master (Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh) and Wing Chun (Michelle Yeoh). These are just a few examples of a genre filled with similar excellency. Keanu Reeves' clumsy fumblings (although many are taken directly from Jackie Chan films) are a very VERY far cry from the real thing. It's a painful thing to watch. For anyone who has NOT had the opportunity to see the films that form the true basis of this film, it is understandable that you would be amazed. The styles that it borrows are heretofore almost non-existant outside of Asia. If you liked this film, I implore you to seek out and find the work of the artists who made this thing possible. Only then can you form an educated opinion. (there are certainly those who HAVE seen these films and would disagree with me on this one, but at least it's an educated disagreement) For a much better film that also draws heavily from Hong Kong cinema, see Pulp Fiction, which is a true artistic interpretation and not a mere borrowing of technique. $0.02.
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Summary: a little far fetched but excellent special effects.
Review: This film will appeal to the 13 to 35 age group with special effects stunningly created to appease the sci-fi crowd and a storyline revolving around computer programs. Keanu Reeves' drone acting pales in comparison to Laurence Fishburne's articulate delivery but the two of them have the right chemistry ,in a clashing type of way. A very well directed and choregraphed film. its nice to see an attempt at sci-fi without the force being with you. Original ideas are rare in a film industry saturated with sequels, retreads, remakes and copycats. Superb photography. A job well done to all involved in the making of this picture.......
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Summary: One of the Best Films of th 1990s
Review: This film, in my opinion is a fantastic fusion of action and an excellent plot. This movie uses groundbreaking special effects to compliment one of the deepest plots in any recent film. The main character Neo(Keanu Reeves) is a hacker who is contacted by Morpheus and informed that he is "The One" who will save the "Real World" and that the world we live in is a computer program designed to use humans as batteries to use for energy for the robots that have taken over the world. The rest of the movie chronicles Neo's quest to save the human race. The plot in this movie keeps the viewer thinking, wile the action keeps you on the edge of your seat. I would recommend this film to all action film lovers as well as someone just looking for a movie that is a technical masterpiece.
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Summary: The first and best film in The Matrix Trilogy!!!!!!
Review: This film,in my opionion,is one of the greatest movies ever made!The visuals effects were great at the time of this films' release and they still hold up well today.Also,unlike the sequels,this film makes sense! It is not confusing at all! too bad the sequels weren't like that. All in all,a great film! I recommend it!
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Summary: best film to see
Review: this filmis by far one of the best films i have ever seen, after i had seen it, i thought back about all the action, the plot, and everything that made this film so good. this is an unmissable film, and contains effects that have never been seen before.
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Summary: Looks good but no people
Review: This flick is all computerized special effects and characters who are as bloodless as the computers. That is, the effects are fun but the people are of little concern, since they have no reality -- being involved instead with leaping great distances through the air, walking on walls, and dodging bullets. The plot seems to involve the premise that everyboy has been created or controlled by a computer somewhere. The principals, who may be human beings, lie about hooked up to a computer aboard some sort of vehicle. What we see on the screen appears to be what's going on in their brains. Then there are other human-like creatures trying to hunt them down. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburn sort all this out.
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Summary: A classic sci-fi movie already!
Review: This has become in my mind a sci-fi classic already. The reasons?
-Brilliant special effects -some might say none were groundbreaking. So what? The way in which they were integrated into a the story was just perfect.
-A great story. The perfect combination for a classic: compelling, universal and not-limited by time boundaries. Only thing I'd change: Keanu Reeves....
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