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Summary: Great Science Fiction
Review: The Matrix is stylized and philosophical. It also moves very well and has good dialog. There is an overall emotional depth I really appreciated. Hero and villain are excellently portrayed. Even the very textures and colors of the visual aspect captured on film are gorgeous. The only problem I had was in the 'construct' when Morpheus is explaining things to Neo. They didn't need a reference to cold fusion, and should have further elaborated on the scorching of the sky and the machines' inability to leave the planet. Other than that, it's very well done.
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Summary: Matrix DVD
Review: I know the movie was great but the DVD doesn't play on Mac DVD players.
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Summary: Genious
Review: This 1999 movie, the Matrix, would be in the top two of my favorite movies. The special effects were great for example a time when Neo, the main character is shot by 5 bullets. He sticks out a hand and the bullets drop. The actors and actresses were also great. Its hard to imagine The Matrix II will be better than the Matrix I. As a matter of fact its hard to imagine any movie being better than this. The main plot is about people in a dream world of the truth while the people like us do not believe our dreams are nothing but our thoughts. You really start to believe in your dreams like they our real. This movie is given the "R" rating. When you watch this movie you will think in should have been rated PG-13. I truely believe it was right to have the R rating. This is because the movie is extremely hard to understand. My 7 year old brother saw half of this movie. He loved the effects but did not understand the plot at all. The ages for this movie I would say is mature 8 year olds and up. If you like science fiction see this motion picture.
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Summary: Transcendentally exciting
Review: Mind-expanding milestone of an action movie that features hacker "Neo" (Keanu Reeves) discovering unsettling things about the nature of his world. More than that would be criminal to reveal if you haven't yet seen it. Surreal, genre-transcending excitement with FX that broke the mold: the "bullet time" sequence is already legend. Excellent cast, too: Fishburne is appropriately sagelike and stony; Hugo Weaving as "Agent Smith" is the best villain we've seen in a long time. Even Keanu comes out on top, if only because his core nerdiness actually serves the story instead of defeating it. A staple.
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Summary: A LANDMARK FILM
Review: When I left the cinema after seeing THE MATRIX I noticed that people left the building as If they had witnessed something truly religious. Very seldom do we see something at the movies that can change the look u have on the reality. Or the feeling that u have witnessed something new and truly remarkable. THE MATRIX is of couse such a film and I think I speak for a looooooooooooooooot of people that I am thankful for that it was made. Notable filmcritic Pauline Kael once said:"Movies are so rarely great, that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them....." THE MATRIX is not one of those events.
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Summary: great movie
Review: if you like special effects check out this movie
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Summary: Warning: Do not try to stop bullets with your mind at home!
Review: When something as technologically amazing as The Matrix comes out, what can you do except get on the ride and hang on? I saw this movie a while back, and it was incredible! When you enter this movie, you're introduced into The Matrix- slowly you begin to grasp the concept of what it really is. Nothing in this strange, superficial world is what it seems- especially when it come to keeping the peace. You have two choices: either learn to use the Matrix for your own side- or die. Everything about the movie was fairly good, though the real treat is the visual effects, as you've probably heard by now. The computer graphics are seamless and perfect- they really add flavor to the movie. Then you can get into the plot itself- a refreshing look into the paranoid. It's one of those things that really makes you look at life, even though it's probably in a weirded out, paranoid way. The acting is good, too, and Keanu Reeves does a great job with his role. The features included with the DVD are great, too, and I could just sit, watching the opening screen for a half an hour, at least. (It's really cool!) This movie is philosophical and deep at times, and then a few moments later it's full of good guys duking it out with creepy agent guys. It's sure to become a Sci-Fi classic!
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Summary: The Matrix
Review: REVIER'S NOTE: My son wrote the following review and this was done before Amazon had a kid's review form. Bear in mind this review was written by a 12 year old in a good mood: All I have to say is.. this movie rocks.. No, not the special effects (But they rock too..) It's the philosiphy of the movie. People either get this movie, or dont get it. I get it so much that sometimes I think the world really IS the matrix. Anyway, the way the story goes is that there's a hacker named Neo who starts to get messages on his computer telling him wierd stuff, which causes him to go to a club and He sees a lady hacker (known as Trinity) who tells him some stuff and about another hacker named Morpheus. Anyway, Neo asks Morpheus his life long question, "What is the Matrix?" He then learns about the Matrix being a fake world where everone is a slave. The bad guys in the Matrix are AI's disguised as, get this, Feds! Hehehehehehehe... If this movie was rated on a scale of 0 to 10, it would hit a 72..I love this movie...but..where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you...
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Summary: Best Science Fiction film of recent years...
Review: Unlike most sci-fi action films of recent years, where the emphasis seems to be on how well things get "blowed up", "The Matrix" has a brain and knows how to use it. It succeeds on almost every level. Most prominently, "The Matrix" succeeds in showing us violence and action in new and previously unimagined ways. Case in point: the hyperkinetic action sequences seek not only to thrill, but also to bend the mind, to introduce new possibilities. We all know that Keanu Reeves' character, Neo, dodges bullets. But in a standard action film, he'd have run away from them, or jumped off the roof. Not in "The Matrix". Instead, we get a visionary, mind-bending scene in which we SEE Neo dodging the bullets in sweeping, amazing slow motion. Ditto for the "lobby" scene, which is nothing less than a ballet of violence, using Neo's and Trinity's ability to "warp" the Matrix as a backdrop. Amazing stuff. "The Matrix" looks and feels like nothing else ever made. Even the green-tinted scenes in the the corporate "matrix" fantasy world that Neo's doppleganger Thomas Anderson inhabits are so stifling and antiseptic that they're almost menacing. And let's not forget that the premise that "The Matrix" is based on - a world in which humans are unwittingly enslaved to serve their machine masters - IS the most imaginative sci-fi premise in years. It builds on current technologies - virtual reality, artificial intelligence, solar power and a host of others - and seems entirely plausible. "The Matrix" also has an enviable human element, with Carrie-Anne Moss finding a great mix of toughness and vulnerability as Trinity. Laurence Fishburne does excellent work as the enigmatic Morpheus, though I found myself wishing we could spend less time on Morpheus' Zen-teacher musings and more on his character. And Hugo Weaving is beautifully understated as Agent Smith. Keanu Reeves' Neo/Thomas Anderson is wooden, as you'd expect from him, but he does display moments of depth along with the invariable "Bill and Ted" flashbacks. If "The Matrix" has a flaw, it's an ending that's a little too pat and seems more focus-group driven (not to mention sequel groundwork-driven) than a real extension of the story. Otherwise, it's a masterpiece of action and science fiction. And it really DOES show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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Summary: Visually arresting. Morally vacant.
Review: Other reviews will give you more than you need to know about the plot of this movie; really, though, the point of a film like this is the special effects. And the special effects are dazzling. The visual atmosphere created in this film is numbingly consistent and appropriate for the situation and the story told--that is, dark, artificial, yet glamorous. The characters are dressed and made up to be cyberpunk heroes and heroines, all in black leather (Laurence Fishburne is particulary resplendent in his first scene in a full-length black leather coat), dark glasses, and rebel attitude. The computer-aided freeze-frame rotation shots, first seen (to my knowledge) in commercials for the Gap, are perfected here and used on multiple occasions. These glossy surfaces, however, represent the only reason for watching the film. The premise of the film--that the reality we all know and experience is a computer-generated fiction played out in our sleeping brains while the computers themselves feed off of our energy--seems promising (albeit cribbed from any number of precedents dreamed up by science fiction writers decades ago), but in the end it provides little more than an excuse for Keanu Reeves & co. to shoot up stuff, and an alarming number of people besides. That most of the victims are innocents is beside the point; Reeves and his compatriots are among the enlightened few who have awakened from the dream, and this godlike status gives them the moral authority to cut down whoever gets in their way. Thus, at root, there is no moral center whatsoever to this film. I view "The Matrix" as perhaps the perfect example of Hollywood's desensitization to violence, or of its subjugation of horror and outrage to style and attitude. I know this sounds pollyannish, especially for someone like myself who finds the intermittent attempts of various government figures to goad Hollywood into producing less violent fare to be, at best, silly, and at worst, dangerous. But to me this movie seemed like an adolescent boy's self-centered fantasy of power, and it had nothing else to moderate that influence. I know I shouldn't expect too much--this is, after all, also a Keanu Reeves vehicle. The role he is given here is perfect for this living mannequin, all monosyllabic lines and slow-motion action sequences, so for once he contributes to rather than detracts from the film. Still, I truly wish there had been something underneath the black-leather glamour, something less superficial to admire. "The Matrix" is visually resplendant and superficially entertaining, which is all that most audiences really seem to want anymore. If I say that it has all the depth of your average carnival ride, that is not to say that it can't be as transiently thrilling. Just don't look for anything more.
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