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Production Year: 1998 - Action/Adventure - Director: The Wachowski Brothers - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, Gloria Foster, Marcus Chong more

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Neo seeks the truth about the Matrix. Only one man has the answer, an elusive dangerous man who is known as Morpheus. A stranger called Trinity invites Neo to follow a white rabbit...
more...which guides him into a parallel world. Reality is a world run by artificially intelligent machines who control the human slaves in a simulated 20th Century...





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The best DVD ever
Review of The Matrix DVD by jrt01

Advantages: excellent graphics and special effects
Disadvantages: none

The Matrix is what DVD is all about. The stunning special effects that went into making The Matrix what it is are really brought to life on DVD. The picture quality is excellent, the storyline is excellent, the acting is excellent. There are also many special features on the DVD, including several interviews with the director and film crew, on how the film was made (very interesting I must add). There is also a nice little featurette which lets you ... Read review

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02.12.2000
Worship movie in the colimator
Review of The Matrix DVD by flameunier.fr

Advantages: Originality, Perfection of special effects
Disadvantages: Metaphysical reflexion quite heavy-handed

Matrix sows terror and collects the storm! Enormous success in USA and in the world, the second film of brothers Wachowski (after the thriller Bound), feed still the debate on the violence. The american press said that it have even marked to have inspire the sadly celebrate slaughter of Littleton, in which some high-school pupil have draw with sight on some friends of class. Even if it be surely exaggerate of go until there, it of remain ... Read review

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24.03.2002
the matrix
Review of The Matrix DVD by blade4503

Advantages: Good cast and performances, interesting plot with plenty of hooks and action sequences..all spruced up with lashings of sheer panache
Disadvantages: hmm..well it's a bit over the top at times..and confused the hell out of me initially (easily done)

...and silly fight sequences..imagine it's the matrix! well don't bother actually, and just get the film - as it's rather good. Keanu Reeves plays a office worker come computer hacker , and Lawrance Fishburne a bespectacled know it all who spends his spare time jumping across skyscrapers and searching for "the one" who will take on the machines (which have gone AWOL) and take general control of the matrix..all the ingredients for a terrible sci-fi cock ... Read review

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11.07.2001
The Matrix
Review of The Matrix DVD by atmity

Advantages: It's an amazing film, DVD enhances it so much, and the features are fantastic.
Disadvantages: So many features, so little time to use them!

Until the presence of Gladiator in the world, The Matrix was my all time favourite movie, I've seen it countless times and it never gets boring. It's now my second favourite film, and although I have it on video, when I saw it on DVD I just had to have it. I'm not going to bother telling you the storyline etc, it's long and complicated, and if you haven't seen the film, it will spoil it for you. The Matrix on DVD offers a wide range of new and ... Read review

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21.04.2001
Superb..believe the hype!
Review of The Matrix DVD by MR.COATES

Advantages: Effects - laden film, lots of extras on DVD.
Disadvantages: Typical sci-fi action so if you don't like it, steer clear.

Right let's get straight to the point. This is possibly one of the most hyped/talked about films of 1999. There is a very good reason for this. It's good. REALLY good. We follow the life of Neo (Keanu Reeves) who wants to know what the Matrix is. He soon finds himself faced with an awful reality but with amazing consequences. It's Sci-Fi, it's action and beneath it all is an incredibly interesting story. Once again the DVD version of this film is ... Read review

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23.09.2000
Artificial Intelligence becomes Reality.
Review of The Matrix DVD by ViXENdw

Advantages: Good plot, good twists, .. everything brought together as it should have been. Excellent.
Disadvantages: The Matrix? It /has/ no disadvantages.

...time, and also how close the film comes to the same script. Getting back to the film.. if a sequel was done, although I'm sure it would be just as impressive, I'm afraid I don't think it would work. The Matrix is obviously a superb one-off, and was so "special" it would be a shame to follow it up. As it stands the film has everything. Excellent storyline, actors that really fit the parts and who act out the parts brilliantly, excellent soundtrack ... Read review

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11.09.2000
Mad to Miss
Review of The Matrix DVD by Psychgirl

Advantages: Stunning
Disadvantages: None

The Matrix ranks with Fight Club as one of the best movies of recent times. If you like one, you're bound to like the other. In The Matrix the whole illusion of our reality is questioned - only this time it really is an illusion. Like a dark Alice through the Looking glass Neo (Keanu Reeves) plunges through into a desperate reality - where the ultimate question is, can he be the one? Many religious and philosophical questions abound in this movie, ... Read review

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04.02.2001
The Matrix will get you
Review of The Matrix DVD by MCmobile

Advantages: good movie, perfect specialFX
Disadvantages: nothing

Since I bought the movie, I watched it 10 times and more. I love it. The specialFX are great and I ve never seen such perfect effects in an other movie. The story is good and you wont get bored. The DVD has a lot of specials, like games and a making of. But before you can play the games, you have to install the software DVD Player PC friendly on you computer. You get it with your DVD. The story: Neo(Keanu Reeves) is a hacker. One day he gets strange ... Read review

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10.08.2000
Why all the hype
Review of The Matrix DVD by cloud_runner

Advantages: Reasonable action film
Disadvantages: The predictability and Keanu Reeves' acting

The Matrix is a fiarly middling to good film with a generous helping of extras on the DVD, however the hype would potray this as one of the best films ever. It ISN'T! The plot is fairly good but is exceedingly predictable. "Neo" being the "One". Resorting to the use of simple anagrams is not that subtle. The action sequences are good (but I do wish films would stop copying them, as they were not that good!). The story is a tale of an AI gone mad (gee ... Read review

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01.07.2001
The Matrix - less complicated review
Review of The Matrix DVD by pbyron

Advantages: A very good film, amazing effects
Disadvantages: complicated, science fiction genre

...he can act in this. 3) The plot is complicated and relies on close observation 4) It's a futuristic thriller, the premise of which could be scary for some people if taken realisticly. 5) It has lots of action sequences 6) A lot of the action is computer enhanced and completely new 7) There are tons of interesting extras including a special effects bit that runs in between the film 8)It's a very very good film indeed ... Read review

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06.09.2000
I'm a mazed
Review of The Matrix DVD by carriethorn

Advantages: great acting
Disadvantages: not long enough!!

I was badgered into watching the Matrix by my husband, who incidently has watched the film so often he can tell what scene is coming next. i found myself really enjoying the fast action and really great special effects. I am not really into futuristic stuff like this, but it had such an intensity about it the I sat back and enjoyed. I was slightly confused in the film with the plot and have found you need to watch it more than once to get the ... Read review

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21.07.2001
DVD for watchability
Review of The Matrix DVD by crizo

Advantages: Great movie
Disadvantages: if u don't like it is is not!

...only DVD i have is The Matrix! Yes, many people say it is just a hype and that if you like the MAtrix it is becasue you are following the crowd but I don't care what they say. It is a REALLY GREAT movie, not just for the amzaing special effects, the great soundtrack or the stunning plot, but also because, as I am sure many others have thought, it could be real. Maybe this sounds far fetched but it is scarily a concept which we have little chance ... Read review

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27.04.2001
Worth a look
Review of The Matrix DVD by Digger

Advantages: Good sound
Disadvantages: Storyline and Keanu Reeves

The film is clever with its use of special effects and some excellent camera work. This does not make a film in itself; you still need some good acting and a storyline, something that is a little thin on the ground in the Matrix. The film only starts to get going after about an hour and then end abruptly had it been a little longer it might have been a little better. The DVD version has great sound and picture quality as with most DVDs but I ... Read review

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03.07.2000
Should Keanu Reeves really have been The One
Review of The Matrix DVD by privatejoker

Advantages: Great picture, supurb sound and thoroughly entertaining, if somewhat implausible and flawed in places.
Disadvantages: Keanu Reeves still trying to convince the world that he is hard and not the stoner student Bill but a great actor. Hm.

I love The Matrix, I was blown away in the cinema and I really thought it was a groundbreaking film, but, I really feel that Keanu Reeves lets it down. The very idea of the slight, spaced Keanu being a Kung Fu master is laughable, yet seeing him in "action" is hysterical, all his hits play like a Care Bears movie. Hugo Weaving and Larry Fishbone strike like the've got a pair but little Keanu? I'm not convinced. That said and out of the way, this ... Read review

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02.05.2001
mad to miss the matrix
Review of The Matrix DVD by mcpoeman

Advantages: everything about it
Disadvantages: does not play on all dvd players

...haven't seen or heard about the matrix, then surely you have been asleep or in a coma for the last few years, purely the most entertaining piece of science fiction to come out of hollywood in the last fifteen years. The special effects empoyed here are revolutionary and although some think not, i think that keanu reeves plays his part perfectly. A great storyline, but the effects are the picture and simply bypass the actors or story, the baddies are ... Read review

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03.11.2000
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