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Summary: Boring and a waste of time and money!
Review: I got into an argument about this movie with a friend's daughter. I said it was so bad that I was not able to watch the entire movie after several attempts- it was just too boring and trashy. She's only 18 and ignorant, me 42 and wise. She was required to write a paper in college comparing this movie to Blade Runner. She of course trashed Blade Runner and loved Matrix, which is another story. Therefore to win the argument, I had to force myself to watch the thing, and what a terrible experience it was to watch it all the to the end. Some thoughts... 1. Terrible plot if you can understand it which most of us don't know what is going on. 2. Acting is terrible and forced. The characters are not intriguing and definitely not memorable. 3. Fighting scenes are a joke and worse than the typical B karate movie. 4. Gun battle are again, a joke. Why do they always think one guy can out battle an army with M16's? They can't. 5. Love scene? Where did this come from? There was no development for the eventual love scene, straight out of left field. 6. Music score is terrible and not one interesting song. The final two songs are disgusting and an insult to my being. One rap and the other some kind of heavy metal trash. Why this movie is liked by millions of people is a great mystery to me, except they can't or don't know quality. Save your money and buy the Blade Runner Director's cut, which is a true art form. If you are 16 you may like the movie for some of its special effects which are just typical in today's standards.
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Summary: Forget my first review(I love this movie)
Review: Scratch everything I said in my first review. The special effects in this movie are great. The Wachowski brothers struck gold with this dazzling sci-fi thriller. The actors make the story have depth and feeling. Mind blowing special effects cap off this 5 star movie.
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Summary: A thinking movie fan's guilty pleasure
Review: Unless you've been unplugged from the matrix yourself for awhile, you already know all there is to know about this movie. So what you need from a review is whether or not the DVD is worth buying. The answer is a resounding "yes." The plot of the Matrix is nothing all that special. It is this film's groundbreaking, genre-defining visual style that makes it so impossible for even a cynical viewer to stop watching. And that style lends itself very very well to the higher resolutions and extra goodies of DVD. (And like most action films, Dolby Surround Sound adds nicely to the package!) The film's visual brilliance isn't limited to the special effects. Grab a copy and watch the scene where Fishburne and Reaves are in the stark white loading program discussing reality for the first time. This time, notice the sharpness of the colors and contrasts: the white of the background, the red of the chairs. On DVD, that scene leaps out of your TV or computer monitor, almost as though it's 3D. It's in stark contrast to the dark, greenish hue of the rest of the movie. On top of that, this DVD has all the extra goodies that make a person want to buy a DVD, including cast bios, a couple of commentary tracks and lots of "making of" documentaries -- and if ever there was a film that made an audience ask "how did they do that?" this is the one. There are even a few minor extras that can only be accessed on a computer's DVD-ROM, but they require the installation of software included on the DVD, and frankly it never worked on my computer. Nonetheless, this DVD is well worth owning and seems priced to sell.
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Summary: Oh My Friggin' God...........
Review: Sorry pardon my use of profanity. Okay first of Matrix is NOT all that great. It is not original, the fighting scenes are overrated, and the characters sucked. My points: Originality: Like I said Not Original, the writers ripped it off of some Japanese anime like Ghost in the Shell. Some of the parts are cliched like the part where Trinity tells Neo that its "Impossible" then pulls it off, and the part where Neo meets the Oracle and it is expected that Neo meets someone very mystical and stuff but he meets a seemingly normal person but isn't that type of irony somewhat cliched? Fighting Scenes: I hate it when I hear my friends say how innovative the fight scenes were. First of all: Fights like that has been done LONG before the Matrix got on the drawing board and they were done better. Martial Arts movies like "The Iron Monkey", "Fong Sai Yok", and the Wong Fei Houng Movies done it YEARS before Matrix. Characters: First of all, its Keauna Reeves. Second no depth (but I guess that will have to be excused because this is an Action/Sci-Fi flick if I wanted depth I would have picked "Dances with Wolves":)) Neo could have been a cooler character like Ash from the "Evil Dead" movies but instead he spends most of his time being stupid (now that was a bias statement on my part sorry). Graphics: Hmmm.......Great Graphics nothing to complain about here. Movie Overall: I guess I WOULD have liked it better if everybody didn't make such a big deal out of it. *sigh* oh well thats just my opinion on this movie everyone's tastes are different.
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Summary: Awsome Movie/DVD
Review: Excellent movie to demonstrate what dvd is capable of... first rate sound / picture. This movie has bonuses you'll have to see to believe -- they really packed them in (documentaries / comic books / the script / audio commentary) The story is pretty good too - let's hope the Wachowski brothers do as good a job on the sequel.
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Summary: Extraordinary on DVD!
Review: This movie may have one of the most complicated plots there ever was, but it looks amazing on DVD! It is a must have for every DVD player. The graphics and the breathtaking special effects look great! Personally, I didn't understand the story very much until my aunt explained it to me. Anyway, it is a great DVD experience to have.
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Summary: A Movie Made For DVD?
Review: After I first watched this film I was amazed. Later I upgraded my A/V receiver. Watched it again, more stunning. This movie should be included with every DVD player purchased. Simply amazing. The sounds, the sights are unmatched by anything else on the market. Period. Probably more stunning than the quality is the fact that a movie was made with Keanu Reeves that covered his poor acting. I mean this guy is horrible, yet I can't notice it. Trinity and Morpheus are great. The extras also surpass any other DVD. Seeing how it was put together and how the bullet time effects were done was fascinating. I highly recommend this movie to everyone. Granted the sci-fi aspect may repel some viewers, they should still watch it, just for some scenes, (all bullet time scenes and the lobby scene.) Well worth the money, you won't regret it.
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Summary: :)
Review: To rival Hamlet's, Wachowski's write Keanu An epic speech: "Whoa!"
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Summary: Great Movie with Great Techniques
Review: This movie is more than great to be watched and the best way to enjoy it is watching it on a theater or from a DVD. I have watched it several times and fond it interesting each and every time. The DVD not only has the movie tracks, it also contains some additional tracks about the techniques that were used to make the extraordinary scenes. The most important one is the "Pullet Time" technology which is dedicated to the Matrix
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Summary: Special Effects and then Nothing
Review: Alright you have to admit. Great fight scenes. But beside that just plain weird. I know what u r saying see it again and u will understand but i have seen it three times and besides effects it is nuthin.
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