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Summary: SMASHES STAR WARS!!!!
Review: While I think people are reading a bit too much into all the "symbolism" in this film, I can't deny that it was extremely entertaining, visually stunning, and far and away the best film i've seen all year. Remember the shootout with the SWAT team, with all the marble breaking and dozens of shells falling to the floor??? wasn't that awesome???
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Summary: Lots of "flash" with no content
Review: While special effects were well done, the acting, story content, and overall picture quality were generally lacking. You can dress up a pig, but that don't mean you can take him to the banquet!Save your money! Others did by choosing to see Phantom Menace instead!
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Summary: "Free your mind."
Review: While the idea of someone living in a world that is not what it appears to be is not alien in the realm of science-fiction films, the delivery of this concept in "The Matrix" is solid. If the film was nothing less than some shoot-em'-up action flick, I doubt it would be as successful as it is now. Visually, this film gives you little chance to rest before something even more stunning appears, which is a credit to all those involved. The DVD itself is good (it's still a heavy seller (...) despite being two years old), cementing "The Matrix" as one of the truly great action films of our time.
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Summary: The Matrix: Fun but it quickly fades
Review: While this movie is definitely the most amazing display of technology available for movies today, the movie leaves you hanging at the end as many do, in preparation for the sequels that will enter the box office in the coming years...The movie is fantastic at first, yet after seeing it for a second time I became bored with it, as the amazement quickly wears off. Good movie to rent, bad movie to spend 20.00 on...
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Summary: Check it out
Review: While this movie isn't for everyone, it's definately worth it for anyone who makes time to check it out. This movie twists your perception of reality until you can't quite remember whether up is down or reality is what we know. While some of the scenes are a bit too violent, the special effects in them make up for it. It's not good for an impressionable audience because of the content, so don't just let your kids go out and rent it before you've seen it. This is one of my #1 all time favorite movies, and I'm not big into sci-fi (I didn't like "Blade Runner" all that much). I love it and I can't wait to see it again (hopefully I'll get a copy for Chrsitmas! ). Finally, whoever said that this movie influenced the whole Columbine disaster obviously didn't see the movie because the big black trench coats? Only in one scene and not that big a deal. I would've forgotten what they were wearing if no one had made it into a national issue!
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Summary: One of the greatest movies ever!
Review: While you wait for the sequels to come out in May and November, this movie is just what you need to see to understand before you see the sequels. This is the modern masterpiece that changed Sci-fi cinema forever and deserved to get the acadamy award for best visual effects, the acting is just perfect and everything in this movie is just a perfect masterpiece for every Sci-fi lover's collection.
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Summary: The Ultimate Sci-Fi...
Review: Whoa! This movie blew me away! Great story, breaking special effects, great music, and great acting make this movie a pure movie gem! Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving bring a great story to breathtaking heights! Don't even sample first. Just BUY! "I'm not going to tell you what is going to happen. I didn't come here to tell you what happens next. That's for you to find out."
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Summary: Surreal atmosphere leads the way.
Review: Winner of two Academy Awards, The Matrix is a perfect ensemble of cast, effects (visual and sound), and story. Keanu Reeves plays Neo, an ordinary human living an ordinary life until he finds out that the life he is living is nowhere near what he or anyone else believes it to be. Through powerful conversations with Morpheus, played by Laurence Fishburne, and Trinity, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, Neo learns that the life of people on Earth is actually a complex system of computer data known as The Matrix, which controls every sense and action known to "man." Neo does not know what to think about this discovery, nor does he know how to grasp the new and electrifying powers given to him by Morpheus and his small yet stealth crew. Working together, they hope to achieve the one thing that they have been dreaming about: freedom. Freedom does not come easy, for many humans on Earth possess powers superior to that of Morpheus; these people are known as The Agents. When the movie came out in theaters, it received rave reviews, and after seeing the film, it deserved all of them and more. When watching, one must pay close attention to the film, for each minute contains some form of information that is vital to the unfinished plot. The actors in the film are excellent, both with their intellectual dialogue and their playing out of the action sequences. The choreography of the film is stupendous, and fight scenes with and without gunplay looks real and unflawed. Special effects are all the craze for this film, and while most movies have the patented computer-animated look, this is the closest to reality that one can get, tying Independence Day for the best special effects ever in a motion picture. Under superb direction and stellar performances, The Matrix is a thrill-ride into the surrealism of fact vs. reality. The DVD edition of the film boasts superior color fidelity and image sharpness, pleasing the eye with detail for a film that deserves it. Sound design utilizes the .1 LFE channel at almost every turn, engaging especially in gunfight scenes and powerful explosions. The scene in which Neo moves faster than bullets is a remarkable piece of sound effects editing, utilizing the .1 LFE as well as the surround channels. A terrific example of how DVD video should be produced.
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Summary: A disapointment
Review: With a title like "The Matrix", and with an actor named Keanu Reeves, I was hoping that this movie was going to be a great vision of William Gibson's stories of Cyberspace, as the movie Johnny Mnemonic was. I had to make myself go back to see this movie twice, just to make myself accept the fact that this movie was a letdown that didn't do justice to William Gibson's idea of "the matrix". The idea that alien cyberspace beings have to breed human beings in order to survive from their body heat, and keep them in a world of illusion called "the matrix", is so far fetched that it makes it impossible to identify with the movie. It is also a completely different conception of the matrix than the one Gibson envisions in his books such as "Neuromancer" - a matrix consisting of the world of the Internet and the battles of corporations fought in the world of cyberspace. If anyone was hoping to see the vision of Gibson's "Neuromancer", they still have to wait for a better movie. Until now, they will have to survive with Johnny Mnemonic.
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Summary: best Sci-Fi movie of the year
Review: With AC3 the subwoofer felt and sounded terrific The best value on features I have seen on DVD. Tempo, trama, actors, sound actions and visuals are amazingly woven, this movie has it all, I rate this movie well above episode 1, though image definition is a bit lower.
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