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Summary: Great techno mind bender
Review: Wonderful plot and acting. The Matrix will keep you on the edge of your seat. Also, the special effects are incredible, and the martial arts are good.Widescreen is a plus, and the additional making of footage is interesting. If you are a technophile this is the video for you.
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Summary: An action pack, suspense film you must see!
Review: This is a great movie for anyone. It has great effects and good story line. It's a must-see!
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Summary: Cyberpunk-Lite (Less Thrilling and Half the Plot)
Review: The Matrix...ahh, the Matrix is to cyberpunk what Mortal Kombat was to the martial arts genre-pablum. Yes, it did have completely awesome special effects, but as we have seen time and again, special effects do not a good movie make. Unfortunately, this appears to be all that is good about this film that makes William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' look the finest of Shakespear's sonnets. It entertains, sure, but then again, so do a lot of N-64 games, as long as you don't think about it too hard. Keanu Reeves does not deserve to appear in the same scenes with the likes of Lawrence Fishburne-who single handedly steals every one they share together. Okay, Mark, you've complained a whole lot so far, but haven't said what the Matrix is actually about. Okay, the Matrix is about this guy named Neo (Reeves) who has a McJob that he hates, but when he goes home at the end of the day, he becomes a cyber-guy and logs into America On-Line or something where he can abandon his life of quiet desperation. He also notices that the world sometimes isn't what it looks like, (and what it looks like is Quake, because everything is olive green and grey). He meets Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), who basically looks like she's undead in leather, and she wants to show him a whole new world, but first must get Neo past the sinister Agents, the leader of which played Tick in 'Priscilla-Queen of the Desert'. After 'escaping' Neo wakes up in a black pod covered in strawberry jam with dozens of tubes feeding into his body out of something that resembles H.R. Geigar Lite. He also finds that there are millions upon millions of McPods just like his. Now we meet Morpheus (Fishburne), who out-cools Reeves at every turn, and we learn that there is a band of rebels who have escaped the Matrix-a massive immersive virtual reality system that all of humanity has been trapped in by evil robots that we created, (Geez, you'd think we would have learned not to do things like that after the Terminator thing). Now it gets dumb (er, dumber). The Robots and the artificial intelligence that runs the planet are harvesting humans for heat so that they may continue...doing what, we're never told, but keeping humanity under wraps seems to be all they do. Now, Morpheus is convinced that Neo is the Chosen One, a cyber-messiah who has come to save all of the oblivious humans trapped in the Matrix. Forgetting of course that, if they win, they have to clothe, house and feed billions of humans who might be better off inside their pods. Morpheus trains Neo how to fight, thanks to a healthy dose of plug-in skill chips that instantly teach martial arts and weapons skills to anyone. The worst part about the film is the betrayal. In much the same way as the Secret Service agent who sold out the President in 'Airforce One' made no sense, the betrayal in the Matrix leaves the viewer going 'Huh! Where did that come from! " Because in order to enter the Matrix, one must be supervised and plugged in-things that can't be done on one's own. He will sell out Morpheus so that he may be plugged back into the Matrix-all because he's tired of living on the crummy submarine and eating reonstituted slop. The Matrix is slick, and it does have its moments, but the story leaves a great deal to be desired. I would like to say the action is fast paced, but it isn't because every action scene is shot in slow motion-from NRA gun nut romp through the lobby of an office tower where the Agents are hold Morpheus to the end sequences within the subway, the break neck action scenes seem to last forever, and it gets tedious. It is cookie-cutter entertainment in much the same way that 'Independence Day' was-it's great as long as you don't think about it too hard. Of the three blockbuster movies of 1999-The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, and The Mummy, The Mummy is the best pick of the bunch. If you want to discover good cyberpunk, read Neuromancer or Islands in the Net.
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Summary: good movie, ridiculous story
Review: Good movie, wonderful technically, defined the state of the art in special effects. As science fiction, though, it's preposterous garbage. The premise is banal in the extreme: people lying in pods in a perpetual dream state provide energy to run the computer overlords' machines, while the good guys lurk in a futuristic-but-funky submarine in giant underground sewers. This is the sort of crap that gives sci-fi a bad name. Why in the world didn't they hire someone like Bruce Sterling, or William Gibson, or Greg Bear to provide some intelligent background? Ah well, enjoy it for what it is, I guess; it shore is purty!
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Summary: THE MATRIX WILL STIR YOUR "INWARD PARTS"
Review: In my opinion, there are 4 kinds of movies and each gets a particular range of stars automatically by me, just by fitting in the category: UNSTIMULATING................ 0-1 STAR STIMULATING...................... 2-4 STARS CONTEMPLATING............... 2-4 STARS STIMULATING & CONTEMPLATING............... 4-5 STARS The Matrix gets 5 stars from me because it is the last and best type of catagory movie (stimulating and contemplating.) This type of movie is very rare and difficult to achieve. The Matrix 'achieves' to the Nth degree! The reason being: first, when a movie draws me in so deeply that I can step inside because it becomes a reality for me during viewing (everything else is obliterated) - 5 star movie; and secondly, if I want to change parts to make it even better and I wish during viewing that I could have had a voice in the concept and script- 5 star movie. The behind the scenes footage only confirms the awesomeness of this movie. It has ground breaking special effects that will blow your mind. Furthermore, "People will be talking about The Matrix for the next 50 years, while other movies [released around the same time] will have been long forgotten." (Quoted by av.) The behind the scenes footage makes you respect all the hard work (mentally and physically) that went into this movie even more. Truly a very appropriate, exceptional movie for the beginning of a new century! (See Isaiah 49:1b.)
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Summary: Could've been so much better...
Review: Yes, the effects were incredible. Yes, the concept was mind-blowing. Yes, Trinity & Keanu look really great in leather & vinyl. But the script - the SCRIPT! and the directing! And the casting! had so much potential, and fell horribly short. Keanu, I'm sorry, I just don't believe you as an intelligent computer hacker. You blew that in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." Lawrence, you're a great actor, and with a slightly better director you wouldn't have sounded so laughably melodramatic. And whoever wrote the script, you've obviously seen a lot of X-Files episodes, but you really need to go beyond the TV-audience-pandering dialogue and avoid the overly melodramatic. It's could've been a killer movie, but it just fell short, which makes it all the more disappointing.
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Summary: Matrix was great!
Review: This video/DVD was wild and weird! Just the way I like them! If you like sci-fi -this is one for you.
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Summary: For the pure love of violence
Review: Some may argue with me when I say that this film loves violence. They might use terms like "wallow" instead. But what convinced me was a single shot: the falling, in slow motion, of scintillating spent shell casings from the helocopter, during the rescue of Morpheus. It was then that it hit me: the Wachowski brothers were not giving us that shot in order to pump up the violence/action. They were doing it because they intuitively understood the sheer, unadorned beauty of violence.
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Summary: A perfect reason to buy a DVD player!
Review: well wasn't I disapointed when I went to the video store last October to find that one of my favorite movies wasn't going to be released on VHS for another 3 months! I couldn't wait 3 months! I wanted it now! So what to do? Buy a DVD player of course, and man I can't look back now! This movie proved to me how great genre flicks like this can be on DVD. The sound is amazing, and the video is great. There is no way I could watch this movie in full-frame after seeing all those Kung-Fu sequences in widescreen! How could I have ever been stupid enough to think full-frame was better? And then I found all the cool extra stuff you could do with this DVD. Best money I ever spent! Completely changed the way I watch movies, it will for you too!
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Summary: Rock On Matrix
Review: The Matrix I have 2 words for that "Just Watch" if you like si-fi or action this is the movie for you the plot is so intense. This DVD is also the best test of you DVD player with the best special FX ever and mind blowing stunts. After watching THE MATRIX you will be wish you could walk on walls :) just watch it already.
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