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Summary: Real-life Ghost in the Shell
Review: Got the DVD of this today, and I must say its quite excellent.I watched the film in the theater and thought it was okay, but I was mostly watching for the effects so I was rather bored in the middle. This time, I knew what the effects were going to be (although they're still pretty mind-boggling), but it turns out that there's a pretty coherent story binding it all together. The main premise is one that's been done before (are these lives real, can we just trick our brains into believing it, etc.), but most movies that tend to present this are more muddled or more simplistic than the Matrix. There are a couple of things that bother me. First, the DVD video quality seems to be a little noisy, although I may be dreaming that. More importantly, I'm still not convinced that Keanu is the greatest for this role (especially when he does his goofy kung fu poses and in the "I don't believe it" speech when he first sees the human farm). Finally, the central premise makes no sense to me: why don't the AIs just remove the matrix and make sure the humans they're farming are never sentient? Overall, entertaining, visually mind-blowing, and somewhat thought provoking, and wrapped up with lots o extra features for DVD people (and for the price of an audio CD). Highly recommended.
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Summary: visually amazing
Review: GREAT ACTING!, GREAT EFFECTS!!, GREAT MOVIE!!! definety worth buying
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Summary: Quite simply one of my favorite movies of all time.
Review: Great action and creative. I can not wait until the next movies come out. I would recommend this to all.
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Summary: Excellent & Thought Provoking
Review: Great action scenes and special effects! Wonderfully intriguing plot for a sci-fi, open up your mind and go along with the premise. My kids love this movie and turned me onto it. Think outside of the box for awhile and enjoy.
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Summary: Great film making
Review: Great blend of action, sci-fi, kung-fu, special visual effects and creativity. There's nothing like this movie because it's one of a kind. It's an original with style!! When it ended, I was begging for more. Hopefully they'll have a sequel.
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Summary: Whu-oh!
Review: Great concept, but as usual Hollywood falls short. Despite its obvious popularity, I can only say that this is a mediocre movie at best, but a fresh groundbreaking in the western film market nonetheless. It's the visual effects influenced by Japanese anime that save it. Everything else is rehashed regurgitated refuse. The first problem is Keanu. My suspended disbelief came crashing to the tatami mat, as I watched this uncoordinated lanky white guy pretending to know kung-fu. It was farcical and embarrassing to see Keanu run up the side of a wall and flip in some sort of clumsy slow motion Karate Kid-like kick over Laurence Fishburne. I give props to Keanu for doing the hard work practicing the moves, but I blame the directors for not hiding his lack of finesse, speed, and agility. (Laurence looked great however.) Also, after Morpheus (Fishburne) did the incredible leap to the distant building, Keanu did his signature "Whu-oh." Did no one else expect him to turn and see Bill or Ted-whichever one he wasn't-from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and say "Awesome!" ? That's the only gripe about casting, everyone else were great choices. Besides that and a few other instances of poor direction plus stupid plot devices (could we not have cut out the whole slow paced oracle scene?), there was the drawn out third act. I'm talking about the climax of the whole movie, where the bad androids are tearing into the ship as Trinity tells the incredibly dead Neo how much she loves him. The Wachowski brothers watched Disney's Beauty and the Beast a little too much I think. When someone is dead, I don't care if you tell them you love them or what, they're not going to come back just to give you a kiss and make everything better and change into Superman. I'm willing to accept it in a Disney cartoon, not a sci-fi/action flick. The brothers should have let someone else write the intimate scenes because it comes off as trite and idiotic. It reminds me of Terminator 2 where Arnold the killing machine asks the boy "Why do you cry?". I cry, Arnold, because folks think that poor scenes like this give the movie "heart". Regardless, I still think this is a good movie worth the price of admission, I'm just not in love with it enough to fawn over Keanu, ignore the superficial plot, and to type in ALL CAPS.
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Summary: totally fantastic movie but....
Review: Great concept..Extremely well done...watched a borrowed dvd probably 15 times...buying my own. Only problem I have.. Is the language (foul/blasphemous) the writers used in areas.
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Summary: Best movie of 1999
Review: Great Effects, good acting, superb plot, and an inspired musical score add up to making "The Matrix" the best movie of 1999. I can't wait for my copy to arrive!
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Summary: Opens a can of whupass!
Review: Great effects, ideas, and storyline. My favorite of all time
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Summary: Great DVD, takes full advantage of the format
Review: GREAT extra features. If this version were available on Laser, it would easily be upwards, but... you can have this really cool movie with lots of cool added features. REMEMBER FOLKS, Follow the WHITE RABBITT.
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