The Matrix (DVD)

...brilliant fight scenes this is the best action film released for years . The style of this film also sets it apart from other films , from the clothes the characters wear to the amazing "bullet time" effects , the whole style of the film is amazing . The storyline is also very original with the whole world which the people live in being fake and the real world having been taken over by machines. Overall if you have not seen this film GO AND BUY IT ...

abigsmurf 12.10.2000 · Read full review
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...a great film. Right from the beginning it draws you in with plenty of action. It doesn't still the film finishes. A great story line with loads of stunning effects, including bullet time. There are plently of high quality fight scenes and the way the actual story goes, it interests almost every one. This is probably one of the best movies i have ever seen, and with its great quality, I'll probably like it for a long time yet, until another film ...

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The matrix is a film where you have to get your head round it before you can understand it. The plot to this film is genious and i could watch it over and over. The base line is that we live in a reality world and everything round us is not real, we are being hid from the real truth. The truth that the world is no more and the place has been taken over my computer robots. They grow fields of human babys as they feed off them because they recharge ...
...few people that are in the real world and they are trying to find the one, the one who can defeat the agents and regain what was once ours. On there quest they come across a computer genius who lives two lives, one as mr Anderson who is a respected citizen working for a high computer network, the other is Neo a computer hacker who does every thing illegal to do with computers. The agents get hold of Neo first and threaten to turn him in for all the ...

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...a number of times. The film is set far in the future after war between men and machines, in which the machines could think for themselves. (Ala Terminator.) The machines won, and needed power (after the sky was scorched) so harnessed humans in fields of production to provide that energy. To keep the humans minds occupied they planted them in a computer generated world called the Matrix. This world was twentieth century USA and the humnas inside ...
...the real world. Sounds complicated, well it is a bit. The film combines this plot with great special effects and centres around a group of humans who know the truth and have been freed from the Matrix. (They have the ability to re-enter the Matrix as computer generated images of themselves.) The best bit of the film is the clever intertwining of Hegel's and Nietzche's philosphy. That is, how do you know that an object is in fact that object, is ...

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I first seen this at the cineama and i had to buy it as soon as it came out in the shops and Ohh my god this has to be the best DVD every made it is absoultely amazing valu for money and every DVD owner should have a copy it is the most visually stunning film i have ever seen and the action sequences are amazing and takes your breath away Keanue Reeves is very cool indeed and i cant wait for the sequals to come out it will be the best triology ever ...

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The Matrix is an artificial world created by intelligent machines pulled over the eyes of every human being to blind them from the truth, that every one is born into slavery and used to power the machines like batteries. Well thats the idea in the film anyway which is about a man who lives 2 lives,1 as Mr Anderson who works for a respected computer company and another in computers where he goes under the name of Neo. He has been searching for an ...
...enough the answer finds him and he enters the real world where alot is expected of him. This DVD,written and directed by the wachowski brothers,will make you ask yourself alot of questions because the ideas in this movie such as,if you never awoke from a dream how would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world,could actually be true which is really quite scary. This film has mind blowing stunts and brilliant fighting scenes ...

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The Matrix it must be said was a groundbreaking masterpiece. Its stunningly couragous graphics and purely sublime photography stunned audiences around the world. Watching the film again yesterday, I bagan to relise not only rhe depth of graphically enhanced material within the film, but the superiority of depth and the sheer complexity of each scene. Take for example the scene where Reeves, after just taking the red pill is transported to his human ...
...the whole erie sense of the scene. The level of acting to is superb, and each character gives a skilled and highly gritty and emotional performance. Their reaction to event and interplay as they react is highly appropriate. Linked in with what is a pulvarising plot which twists and turns with upmost complexity. The action scenes are fast and furious and the sheer volume of explosions, fight scenes and gun battles, is lighted perfectly, combined ...

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...computer, asking him to follow the white rabbit. The door knocks, a bunch of clubbers have come to pick up their illegal software, they ask him to go with them and he hesitates, that’s when he sees a tattoo of a white rabbit on the girls shoulder…. He follows. Thinking that all this is rather strange, he’s at the night-club and can’t figure out why… or how the message appeared. Standing in the darkened room, he’s ...
...that can he can find the answers that he’s been looking for…. ‘What is the Matrix?’ Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), is the leader of the Matrix rebels that lives in the real world of virtual reality, he believes that Neo is the chosen one and can crack the code to win over the Agents and beat ‘The System’. Agents are of tremendous strength that have been designed to kill, the rebels have no way of defeating them.. ...

michellej 30.08.2000 (10.03.2001) · Read full review
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...opinions that just talks about the film and doesn't bother mentioning the extras (c'mon it must annoy some people) For those who haven't a clue what the films about then I'll give an idea. A computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) is approached by a dark, mysterious woman named Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) who introduces him to a dark, mysterious man called Morpheus (Larence Fishburne). Both are part of a group of freedom fighters who are trying to free ...
...he is beleived to be the one who can finally break The Matrix. All the time the group are opposed by some men in suits called Agents who can move around The Matrix in various guises. The film features some cutting edge effects that really broke the mould and have been imitated to death since. If everything I've just said confuses you then you need to take the dvd pill and go deeper in the rabbit hole. On release this dvd was heralded as making full ...

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the Matrix, Staring Keanu Reaves as "Neo" and Lawrence Fishburne as "Morphius" is a futuristic action sci-fi. The matrix certificate is a 15. With mind blowing special effects and an in depth yet understandable plot this certainly is a movie not to miss. Almost 1000 years into the future neo is confronted by Morphius while he his in the "Matrix" a virtual reality world created by an artificial intellignce race set on controlling humanity. The Matrix ...
...leading a double life at the beginning of the film as a respectable employee of a leading software company and a hacker selling information and illegal tapes. Morphius is convinced that Neo is "the one" the one being the person who can use the matrix as he pleases and change it to suit him, he has been fortold to free humanity form the artificial intelligence who are enslaving them in this virtual reality world known as the Matrix. The film has ...

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The matrix is the first of the matrix trilogy that change the film industry forever. Storyline All of his life Thomas Anderson who has an alias neo has wondered about what his whole life really is all about and what is this thing called the matrix is. One day he gets a message on his computer from trinity telling him about a possible way to find out what the matrix really is, but before he can find out fully what it is he is captured by the sentinel ...
...with morpheus who gives him the life altering decision, the blue pill which will take him back to his bed and he will not remember a thing or the red pill which will take him further down the rabbit hole, neo chooses the red pill and is show the truth of the real world and the shocking truth that he is the one (the one is the person that can control the matrix as he sees fit and can fly, stop bullets and plainly can kick ass) but a visit to the oracle ...

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I remember rushing to the cinema to see this, barely noticing the mammoth sized Sean Connery cut-out head that was promoting Entrapment, whilst I stood eagerly in the queue. How could so much hype be wrong? Well, for me at least, it was. I even bought it on DVD to try and convince myself that perhaps there was something i was missing. Nope. A triumph of style over substance, this film is just nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is. Yes, it has ...
...a slightly better end result. The performances are all top notch, even Keanu, the special effects are breath taking, the score is good, direction is fine, it's all okay apart from that damned storyline. How anybody thought that such an old and hackneyed 'is everything what it appears' premise was going to hold the viewers attention for close to 2 hours i'm amazed. I found it irritating and patronising in it's attempts to be deep and meaningful...duuuude. ...

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The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a normal 9 to 5 worker who secretly does computer hacking on the side. One night, a mysterious woman named Trinity seeks him out and introduces him to Morpheus, considered a terrorist by the government. Morpheus shows Neo a world he couldn't possible imagine, and learns that he may the key to saving it. If you went back to 1999 and asked people the film they most want to see that year, hardly anyone would've ...
...the first Star Wars prequel and the hype machine was in overdrive, and so The Matrix got relatively overlooked. But it's so much better than the phantom menace it's hard to see what everyone was so excited about back then. This film came out at the perfect time. The internet was booming, mobile phones were no longer only tools for the wealthy, technology was becoming faster and cheaper than it ever had been before, and along came this film which ...

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...said that Star Wars set the benchmark for Special FX...that is no longer true. The Matrix will spawn a hundred inferior copycat films and (hopefully) 2 sequels of it's own. This is intelligent use of Special FX in a mind-blowing and stunningly original way rather the "for the sake of it" SFX. Fittingly this film swept the board in the technical awards at the Oscars sending George Lucas home without a prize for a Star Wars film for the first time. ...
...this at the cinema and now bitterly regret it. The highest compliment I usually pay Reeves is that I can forget he was in a film - in the Matrix he is a positive assett. Surrounded by a very good cast - the always excellent Laurence Fishburne and Joe Pantaliano are ably assisted by the equally good but lesser known Carrie Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving as the main bad guy. You will believe that these guys spent 4 months learning Kung Fu (as we are told ...

Iva_Biggin 12.02.2001 · Read full review
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Lets look at the big picture. You go out, you see a film. You like the film. You go to the store and buy it, thinking you'll watch it again and again. It stays in the cupboard collecting dust. You watch it once, when you buy it. What is the Matrix? Well, its one of the few films that doesnt fit this life cycle. It truly is a film to be watched again and again. Admitedly, it does loose some of it mystery and charm when it's re-watched, and some flaws ...
...arts expert, then the fight scenes will amaze you, (its a shame they felt the ned to dubb in the annoying "whoosh" effects) and its not all that obvious it's been coriographed, its just a bit slow at times. If you havent seen the Martix, prepare to be dazzeled. ...

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