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Summary: BEHIND ONLY SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Review: With all the action and special effects, this movie blew me away on my dvd player. If you get this movie, you need 5.1. Especially with the lobby shooting spree scene. I watched this movie everyday for a week!
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Summary: good but not great
Review: With all the good reviews spreading around the internet about The Matrix, it's almost impossible not to think that it's a good buy. (If you haven't seen it) Almost everybody gives it 5 stars, saying that it has ground-breaking special effects and great action. For the most part they're right.The Matrix does have very good special effects and great action sequences. It also took bigger steps to effective use of slow motion action. So all in all: Action fans will like this a lot. But the thing that really kills what could've been one of the greatest action movies was this: the plot. The part of the plot that included the explanation of the matrix was pretty good, but besides from that, it's taken right out of a comic book. People have special powers. Man learns that he has special powers. Rescues friend his friend and gets the girl while battling robots. As you can see, the plot is anything but fresh. Also, it's like the movie never ends. Near the end of the movie, (if you haven't seen the movie, don't read this. It gives away the ending) their friend gets captured by the bad guys. His friends go out and rescue him. After a huge gunfight in the building where their friend is being held and on the roof of that same building, you would think that the movie was over. Nope. Then they get in a helicoptor and shoot in the building and then they get their friend out. Then the helicoptor crashes and one of the good guys barely makes it out alive. So now, all three are united and the rescue was a success. But after that, there's another gunfight and kung fu battle in a train station. After that, the hero runs from the bad guy. There is a chase through the streets. Then somehow, they end up in a building. The chase continues. Now right about now I was getting tired of the movie. It could've ended many other places, (the best place would've been the subway station) but no. It had to go on. Then the hero gets killed. Whew, I thought. End of the movie. But then he comes back alive and gets in a fight with the bad guys. And then finally, the movie ends. So all in all, it has great special effects and non stop action, but the plot isn't that great and the movie just gets tiresome. Only 12 year olds with an attention span of .000000000001 seconds could watch this whole movie in one sitting and not see any flaws.
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Summary: Great Sci-Fi Action Adventure
Review: With almost 3000 reviews out there nothing more needs to be said on the plot of this film. Therefore I will limit my review to the contents of the DVD that I viewed. The DVd contains an arsenal of special features some betteer than others. In addition to the film we get two feature length commentaries. The first is by the special effects designer and the editor with additional comments by Carrie Anne Moss. This is standard fare commentary with lots of dead time as the film runs. The two crew members discuss the concept and have a rather lengthy discussion on "bullet time." The discussion is rather complicated but interesting nevertheless. Ms. Moss chimes in rarely to discuss scenes in which she was a principal. The second commentary is more interesting. This is a music only track with commentary by composer Don Davis. He discusses the score and its creation and integration with other non-source material. It is interesting to watch the film in this fashion as one does not always get a sense of the great deal of music involved in the film. The usual making of special is included and runs around 26 minutes. This is a better than average production special and is well worth a look. Also included are two "hidden" featurettes called "What is the Concept" containing original conceptual drawings and "What is Bullet Time" containing a deeper discussion of the special effects created using the virtual camera system designed for the film. "Follow the White Rabbit" allows the viewer to see an extended version of the film with nine production featurettes included that deal with the creation of the special effects and fight sequences. All in all this is a very well made DVD which serves to enhance the viewing experience of a film that is rapidly becoming a classic.
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Summary: A Phenomenon - You Have To See It For Yourself...
Review: With groundbreaking special effects technology, a philisophical / scientific story and easily watchable - The Matrix has it all. Keanu Reeves is Neo, the hacker believed by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to be the ass kicking Christ-like figure who must save the enslaved world from the Matrix. To do so, he must battle the agents, dodge bullets, have beautifully chereographed fight scenes and one hell of a shootout. Carrie-Anne Moss is the woman Neo loves and is loved by, Trinity. A mesmerizing, eye popping visual extravaganza that redefined science fiction and revitalized interest in the theme of man VS machine - mixed in with religion, philosophy and some great lines from Laurence Fishburne, you have a cyberpunk classic which can be seen again and again - a phenomenon.
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Summary: Just buy it
Review: With hundreds and thousands of reviews here (which I haven't read), there's not much I can add. But here goes: This movie is a great action adventure, with great action sequences, and some very imaginative images (and mediocre acting, but hey, who cares). It might not make complete sense (wouldn't it have been less troublesome for the machines to harness nuclear power?), but then, what other movie does? It's just very cool. The DVD complements this beautiful movie with great production values. You get the best scenes running at the beginning of the movie, and in the background behind the menu. The transitions are very nice, without taking too much time. The behind-the-scenes feature is pretty fascinating. The commentary track is nice, and does give some more insight into the movie, but is not that exciting. The music track is great. It's amazing to hear the music without the actor voices or effects. It's just so cool, and I wish that more movies would do this. There's also an exciting feature called "follow the white rabbit", where a rabbit supposedly appears on the screen and you can then select it and see special things. I didn't see it at work due to the software player I use (and I had a bit of trouble with the other features, too). You also get some PC stuff, including a storyboard and some articles. The features didn't seem to fit that well with my screen resolution of 1280x1024, and are not terribly exciting, but the storyboard is nice. All in all, this is a great movie and a very nice DVD, a recommended addition to any home DVD library.
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Summary: Mindblowing!
Review: With its unconventional storyline , excellent acting , out -of-this-world special effects and non-stop action The Matrix is probably the best sci-fi\action movie I have ever seen. Right from the beginning to the end I was glued to the screen anxious not to miss anything. The fact that I saw it 9 times should tell you something. Excellent music too. If you didn't like the Matrix you should probably see a shrink.
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Summary: For those cybergeeks who haven't a life
Review: With out a doubt this as got to be one of if not the worst movies of all time. It's appeal is generated by special effects, and the fact that so many people today lead their non-existant lives through a computer instead of in the day to day world where events do happen in a humanly manner, and reality is not virtual. Aside from the script which has enough holes in it that you could drive a tractor trailer truck through the movie at any given point, and the...poor acting. The movies main message that you can only experience life by picking up your cell phone and turing on your computer is both sad and shallow. However for our current generation of geeks out here who relish the thought that the virtual is reality such a message is very appealing. Include in this vast hodge podge of, special effects, bad acting, and poor writing are snippets of mysticisim drawn from several religions. All of which help the movie reek even more of a slick sales pitch designed to get your bucks. In short if you walk out of this movie feeling awed, and inspired you may seriously want to consider just how shallow a life it is your leading. If you walk away half way through the movie, or else see it entirely and then wonder just where in the heck the movie was...well then your doing something right in your life. But don't worry cybergeeks, theres more to come..sad to say.
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Summary: IT WASN'T JUST KEANU REEVES WHO RUINED THIS ONE
Review: With rare exception ("Parenthood," "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"), Keanu Reeves is a detriment to every film he appears in. We've all seen him destroy great films like "Devil's Advocate" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula." This time, Keanu, don't feel bad, it wasn't you. The script in this film stinks! In a strange attempt to tell the story of Jesus Christ through a futuristic sci-fi film (doesn't sound like a bad idea, right?) this picture only manages to showcase the latest in CGI effects. I must mention, however, the one reason I gave this picture 2 stars instead of one: Hugo Weaver is brilliant as Agent Smith! He is also fortunate to have the only good lines in the film when Smith is telling Neo what he thinks of the human race and our world. What other movies has Weaver been in?
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Summary: Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Not Superman!
Review: With the birth of AI(artificial intelligence) computers evolve beyond human control within the next two hundred years. In actuality, we already have forms of AI existing today. They become more complex and wonderous at a rate paralleling that of the advancement of technology itself. Therefore, the beginning of the end for the human race lies in the birth of a sentient life form, created from information alone. Other movies that expound on this future phenomenon are T2 Judgement Day(like you haven't seen it already), and Ghost in the Shell. The latter is an animated movie that I highly recommend, second to The Matrix.
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Summary: Overhyped, Underwritten
Review: With the plot device of 'virtual reality made real' (don't ask) the sky was potentially the limit for the writers. But after the first hour or so of interesting but too numerous and convoluted twists, the film devolved into a very prolonged shoot-em-up/kung-fu show down. What a waste. It took me half a dozen sittings over several weeks just to get through it because it became so mind numbingly boring and predictable. If slick special effects and gunplay are all you need in a movie then go for it. Personally I'd rather watch my lawn grow.
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