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Summary: The Matrix Has You
Review: The Matrix on DVD. It just seems like the one was invented for the other. Go up to any stranger shopping for DVD's, and say, "I have the Matrix on DVD," the answer will always be, "Who doesn't have the Matrix on DVD?" If you haven't seen this film, don't bother renting it, just buy it. It's definately the best science fiction film of the nineties, and perhaps one of the top of all time - but time herself will have to wait for that judgement. Not since Bladerunner has a film so beautifully combined special effects and a well-developed, thought-provoking story into a single film. This leads me to a popular misconception about the Matrix. The Matrix does have eye-candy, but every ounce of it is motivated by story. At no point is a shot wasted. This is not ID4, where the story could fit on the side of a cereal box, this is real cinema. Prepare to think and be surprised. Prepare yourself for some terrific acting (okay, not Keanu - but he's alright in this one - promise). Most of all, prepare yourself for a script so tight, there is not a single moment to get away. This movie truly grabs hold and never lets go.
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Summary: Enjoyable but could be better
Review: The Matrix is a movie that is good, but could have been so much better. Essentially they needed a plot that could carry the main point of the movie: show awesome special effects that are not possible in the real world. Main point achieved. This movie has some truly remarkable scenes that left me stunned. However, good dialogue and plot could have really carried this movie to a whole new level. Without giving away the central idea, the secret of "What is the Matrix?" is silly. There are many reasonable alternatives that could have made the movie more believable and even thought-provoking (I bet you can think of at least three). As it is, whenever people talk, sense they do not make. See this movie, because it is fun. That said, it was painful for me to watch this movie a second time knowing what it could have been.
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Summary: Good, but overrated.
Review: I've heard people say this is the best movie they've ever seen. I don't agree with that, but I do think it's a pretty good movie. The effects are great, the story is pretty good (the idea is especially interesting and discussion-invoking), but the characters aren't very interesting. The worst part is that you never learn about the supporting characters before they're blown away. The addition of more info on them, plus just a little humor to crack the characters' stone-cold faces, would have made this a 5-star movie, not just a 4-star.
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Summary: Matrix -- A subersive and dangerous film
Review: The Matrix is a science-fiction and action film that weaves within it the message that is subersive and dangerous. This is a very enjoyable science-fiction film that explores the nature of reality. Neo is the hero (his name means NEW or CHANGE) and he is contacted by Morpheus -- the most dangerous man alive, and a terrorist. The movie is subversive in a very clever way, the hereos are terrorists who are willing and able to gun down security agents and law officers. They state that if you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. The film is very cleverly anti-government, and anti-law, and promotes voilence against the governement and the populace. This is a brilliant film that should be watched by everyone. You can simply watch it as a science-fiction action film, or you can understand the philosophical and mystical messages in it, or finally the revelation: the political and social messages in it. You need to watch the film at least three times, and listen to the dialogue carefully to understand it. This film demands multiple viewings, and is a film that should be owned. With the layers of meanings in the film, and the messages weaved into the story, it makes for a very watchable film. The special effects are also brilliant, as are the sets.
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Summary: Wow
Review: If u have ever wondered about the supernaturalm why deja-vu occurs, this is the movie for u. The full power of sci-fi action and a great plot unfold in this superb gun, and martial arts action movie. U will stop and think about the world around u after watching this smash hit. Are we in a dreamworld, are we all slaves to our minds? Questions only the cast of The Matrix and the superb crew could answer.
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Summary: Free your mind to READ THIS
Review: Hi what's up? How are you doing fellows? In my critique, the best movie of 1999 was 1.Sixth Sense 2.Three Kings 3.American Beauty 4.MATRIX 5.Toy Story 2 6.10 Things I Hate About You 7.Tarzan 8.Boys Don't Cry.... ETC But MAtrix is the movie that is most imaginary, has coolest special effect, and sound in 1999. I was tired of those childish Science Fiction like Jurassic Park, Terminator,or other stuff. Matirx was imaginary, cool ideas, and most critical movie about human beings. Also it didn't show only those ideas but showing eyepopping actions, and special effect. This is my favorite movie
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Summary: The Matrix
Review: Starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne. The Matrix delivers one of the best films for special effects and for a storyline. It`s a film in which you will be glued to from beginning to end and wanting you to press rewind on your remote and watch it over and over again ! The Matrix is about a man who`s eyes are opened to the real world around him by taking him into a reality dimension that`s hard not to think it could be for real. I love this film and I`ve yet to find anyone who didn`t feel the same too !
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Summary: A great idea is not enough
Review: Once more... I knew it before seing it. The theme is great, even if not totally original. The FX are nice, certainly impressive for addicted to the genre. At the end of the day, I was feeling embarassed for the director during scenes like this ridiculous fight between the columns of the bad guys' HQ. Too bad. I really was captured by the first minutes. But there is no depth in the following. The actors are good. The scenario is pitiful. However, see it just to imagine what if could have been - maybe a kind of 2001 Space Odyssey in its own genre!
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Summary: Burroughs Re-Visited
Review: Naked Lunch, a novel by William Burroughs, described the events leading to the murder of a federal narcotics agent. Written in varying stages of substance abuse, especially alcohol and heroin, Naked Lunch attempts to present the bizarre alternate reality of the drug world, along with its rationalization of the crime. The agent had grown bad: simultaneously overzealous and corrupt. His addiction was the junkies of Washington Square Park, and he fed on them the way the centium programs in the Matrix fed on the sleeping humans of the 22nd century. The victim there was not an indestructible cyborg, but the killer in the Burroughs' novel was tacitly aware that the crime could potentially bring the formidable power of the Vietnam era federal government into the heart of their relatively secure underground world. Neo, the drug-awakened killer in The Matrix, conversely realizes that the murder of the guardian will almost immediately bring about the collapse of the machine government. According to the plot, at some point in the 21st century a war erupted between the people and the machines. The machines won, but their domination was incomplete: a single city, Zion, located so deeply underground that their energy source is radiation from the Earth's core, kept alive the resistance movement that Neo - ostensibly a computer programmer/hacker of the late 20th century - is fated to lead to violent victory. In the course of his drug-aided virtual-reality apotheosis, Neo ignores the attention of the female lead, a very sexy, kick-boxing, gun-toting ex-hacker. The film could use a little more romance and a little less violence, but that is beside its main point. The Matrix suggests that there is something very wrong with our humdrum lives, while making it abundantly clear that it questions American culture without providing any satisfactory alternative. As it film, it relies heavily on groovy special effects in its crazy-quilt re-presentation of liberal borrowings. I am inclined toward the harshest possible criticism of this film, however, many people (far more hip than I) think it is the cat's meow. Thus, it is likely that it is I who have become the automoton that needs to lighten up and enjoy an essentially old-fashioned low-budget American movie.
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Summary: Thrilling!
Review: A movie like this deserves a DVD that it got! The beginning will really make you shake, it's scary! I find the Sci-Fi premise very original, big kudos to the person who wrote it! I never saw the film in theater, it wasn't until I got the DVD as a present that I found out how much it blew me away! It's so unlike anything I've seen before. As for the DVD, first off there are the basics like widescreen anamorphic and 5.1 Dolby Digital to satisfy you, but there's more to it that can really blow you away! Movie: 5 stars DVD : 5 stars
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