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Summary: Best Movie of All-Time (Seriously)
Review: My Favorite Movie! -awesome special effects -action packed! -okay, the acting isn't so great... -mind-boggling (but interesting) plot!
-don't be fooled by the "R" rating, its not that violent... The Matrix is a classic when it comes to Sci-Fi action movies. Action-packed with interesting characters and plot, and if you like the movie as much as me you'll get the awesome soundtrack!!!
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Summary: Great concept - movie fell short on the execution
Review: The special effects in "The Matrix" were spellbinding. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne weren't exactly suburb actors in the film, but they weren't exactly bad either. But I feel this movie lacks one principle that makes a great movie: great writing. Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus walks Neo (portrayed by Keanu Reeves) through a lot of discussion of what the matrix is, in the middle of the film. This fits into the category of 'exposition', a definite problem with script writing. It would have been better if the character Neo would have been involved with more drama while actually figuring out what the matrix is. In a movie like "Star Wars", the characters are placed in a setting unlike our world..."In a galaxy far, far away." The action in "Star Wars" moves from one scene to another without the characters stopping whatever they're doing, then sitting around and explaining how the Millennium Falcon jumps to light speed or how the Death Star destroys planets...the viewer actually sees the stars race across the screen as the Millennium Falcon gets away from the Empire fighters, and see how Princess Lea painfully watches her own planet get destroyed. In "The Matrix", besides the long scene that gets bogged down by exposition, there isn't much to character development. If you take away all the amazing special effects, there wasn't that much in the script to hold the characters together. I am bothered how this movie is considered a "thinking man's sci-fi thriller". After all I just said, I really didn't feel this movie lived up to that promise.
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Summary: Worth watching more than once...
Review: Unless you just hate Keanu Reeves, you should be more or less entertained throughout the running time of "The Matrix." The acting and the story are good enough to stay out of the way of the real stars -- style, action, and special effects. The ending is a bit (...), but it doesn't spoil the overall experience. This is the good side of the Hollywood entertainment machine.
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Summary: A Stroke of Genius in the Machinery of Hollywood
Review: This review will not include any direct details about the movie, just in case you, good reader, happen to be one of the four people on the planet who haven't already seen it. "The Matrix" is a coop. The Wachowski brothers have managed to infuse a great, up-to-date sci-fi storyline with touches of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and influences of modern philosophy starting with and returning to Soren Kierkegaard. The art direction is sublime, weaving future noir with comic book and producing a wonderfully believable cloth. The writing is solid. Even Keanue Reeves is believable as the in-the-dark protagonist through which we discover this world. The DVD is gorgeous. The features are solid. The behind-the-scenes is an amazing look into the massive effort involved in bringing something like this to the screen. The fact that the Wachowski bros were able to introduce such important and beautiful modes of thought - by infusing the very nature of the story with them - while wrapping the whole package in a action-packed veneer is breath-taking. A move of genius. An entire generation of kids will now grow up thinking, howerver subtly, about these motifs. This aspect of the film, historically speaking, makes it hugely important. The fact that it's a fun and wild ride makes it wonderful. I file this movie in my collection next to my Kubrick DVDs.
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Summary: OK Maybe it was just me?
Review: OK Maybe it was just me, but I was REALLY confused when this movie ended. I guess maybe I was really tired but I don't understand?! Why was every flying around, going into the crappy world anyway?! I didn't understand it and it was not an intellectual movie either!! There were no long serious themes going on in this movie, nothing earth shattering. I think that it was an action flick, nothing more nothing less. Don't expect any more. It said nothing long lasting, and was in no way a classic, ok it had cool special effects but so did a lot of bad movies. OK, I am sorry to be the odd one out and say I didn't like it but I didn't! I don't think this one is worth it, maybe a rental. Make it a Blockbuster night :)
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Summary: A instant classic !!!
Review: This movie has everything!, Kung fu, lots of guns, sci fi and most important; a cerebral plot. The acting was fine, especialy Carrie Ann Moss, her character trinity is the ultimate female action hero, very tough but very sensible too. The production design and the special effects are terrific!!, And the dvd has a great image and sound. This movie is far better than Episode 1.
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Summary: The ultimate action movie!
Review: Perhaps I was living in a box at the time, but it seems to me this movie didn't really generate a lot of pre-opening hype. I mean the trailer was okay, but I wasn't compelled to see it. That's one of the main reasons I was completely blown away once it came out. It's so good Keanu Reeves couldn't mess it up (that's saying a lot!) and it now replaces Terminator 2 and Top Gun as the #1 must-have DVD to show off your new home theater system. Will Terminator 3 knock the Matrix off the perch? We'll have to see... Aside from the great picture and sound, the main reason to get the DVD is for the behind the scenes info if you get into this stuff. I particularly enjoyed the featurette on "Bullet-Time" which shows how difficult and elaborate it was to create this super-slow-motion effect you now see on everything from X-games shows to cat food commercials. What you may not know is the creators of the Matrix are in collusion with Amazon. You see, by viewing this site you're already being programmed to... wait, what's that? (click) Oh no, ack.... urrghhhh.........
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Summary: What is reality?
Review: Matrix asks the important question "What is reality". "What if we are actually asleep and dreaming our reality?" Buddha, Heraclitus, Socrates, and Gurdjeff all knew that most people are asleep, and that the true problem for mankind and womankind is how to wake up.
Also, in excellent mystic or Zen fashion, the oracle, an unassuming black housewife, tells our hero, what he needs to know, not what he wants to know, or doesn't want to know. By not taken either of two alternatives, Neo transcends the artificially created reality of computer "intelligence". It is not the road you know, but the road you walk.
Ultimately it is love which defies computer intelligence in this very intelligently written and this film which is a true masterpiece.
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Summary: Definitly has killer effects
Review: I have loved this movie since I saw it for the 1st time when it 1st came out. Wonderful effects, fresh innovative story, and a handsome star. What more could you want? I am so disappointed that the DVD didn't have some more features. I thought DVDs were so cool because everyone always talked about getting deleted scenes and alternate endings, and this had none of that. I love deleted scenes, bloopers and alternate endings. That's kinda why I had hopped on the DVD bandwagon. Guess I should have done better research cause I haven't seen one deleted scene yet! Oh well, still a very awesome flick.
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Summary: great!
Review: I dont want to make this long.
I loved this movie. The whole thing lacks color and the characters never change thier tone of voice. But the special effects are outstanding. I liked the plot too because no one ever has come up with something like that. There's a million types of horror movies. But this movie is one of a kind. The fight seens are exellent.
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