The Matrix (DVD)

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 full ...
...of ONE. Could he be, that is left for you to find out. The villains were particularly good, and so believably that you worried they would get to the phone before the goodies. I strongly recommend watching this film and you too will be amazed. pun there. ...

carriethorn 21.07.2001 · Read full review
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...and time again without tiring. The 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 ...
...101, like room 101 in the novel 1984 (strangly enough, my house number is 101!!!) If you get tired of this film it is beacuse you are not into the kind of movie, full stop. If you rent it out and really enjoyed it, I am sure you will be able to see it time and time again. there are some great features on the DVD, one that I recomment is 'Follow the White rabbit', in which the whole movie is played, but at some points a white rabbit appears on the ...

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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 could ...

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...it has drilled most of the dialogue into my head! The film is about a computer hacker called Thomas Anderson, who goes by the name Neo online. Bored with his life, he meets a woman called Trinity who tells him about Morpheus, a man with the answers Neo needs. After a choice to leave "The Matrix", Neo will begin his journey to become 'the one', a saviour who will help everyone in the matrix and the real world. I have both VHS video and DVD, and I ...
...second disc filled with extras!). The storyline is strange and compelling, very original and a must buy! The characters are intriguing and the actors pull off a great performance, the special effects make you wish you could perform the same feats the characters can and the whole film in general is excellent. There are several small storylines weaved into the whole backstory, making the film a superb piece of work and enjoyable even after the 20th ...

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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 ...
...The first film to take home movie entertainment into this new Milleniumn. Let's not get too carried away here though. The plot is muddled, stained with a few parradox's and riddled with implausabilities, but more importantly than this, it owes heavily to Cameron and The Terminator. The scripts even steals lines on occasions. The speacial effects and bullet time (tm) though, well! Pucker up and kiss the screen. For only their second directorial feature, ...

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...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 ...
...also very good here, are the amount of special features included on the disc, including many behind the scenes features and a follow the white rabbit feature, its superb value for money and the way all dvds should be, you simply must own this disc but rent it first because it wont play on all players. ...

mcpoeman 03.11.2000 (09.07.2001) · Read full review
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The Matrix was undoubtedly the coolest film of 1999... It is also a film that was made for DVD, the crisper image quality and infinitely better sound that DVD's are capable of make watching the Matrix on DVD far far better than on video. I don't think it's necessary to describe the film...if you haven't seen it then watch it right now... original, stylish, ground breaking special effects, great soundtrack and ultimately very cool. The main reason ...
...than what I've already mentioned the DVD is packed with features...icluding an extended version of the making of (longer than on the video) and also a neat little function called Follow the White Rabbit. By activating this you can watch the film and every time the white rabbit appears you can click on it and watch how the special effects for that particular scene were created. In addition to this there is all the usual stuff that you get on DVD's ...

Mercury 02.11.2000 (09.01.2001) · Read full review
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The Matrix has become one of the 'must see' films of the last 10 years. A fine mixture of science fiction, action, mythology and a plot that makes you consider things in a very different way have all contributed to this. For the fans, it needs no explaining, and no review. For the uninitiated, read on... The Wachowski brothers crashed into Hollywood legend with the first installment of the Matrix trilogy. Absolutely oozing with style - from the ...
...for filming the action sequences it was a film that grabbed you and didn't let you go until it was absolutely finished with you. This, the first and easily best of the trilogy is where it all began. Keanu Reeves is Neo - a hacker who is searching for something - or one - and when he finally discovers what he is looking for the world as he knows it will never be the same again. A fantastic cast accompany Neo on this journey, and all add to the filmic ...

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...house and after looking at the cover was immediatly interested. The dramatic sharp clothing of the people on the front of it totally draws your attention to it and intruiged me to what lay within. So, I decided to watch it as I'd heard high recommendations in lots of top whatever charts and also from my friends. I sat dow, got my popcorn (and girlfriend!) and got comfy for the 1 1/2 hour film. The main character , Neo, (Keano Reeves( annoyingly ...
...of the story that all the others in the story have been searching for for all their lives. He's kinda like a Jesus type person. The actual film is really really really difficult to understand. It's actual a quite unrealistic storyline, but with the marvelous acting and special effects becomes fairly realistic. The film is basically about the fact that we are in a kind of dream world so that we can be used by machines that have taken the human race ...

jasonc 17.06.2001 · Read full review
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...film. But I only bought the film abdout 3 weeks back and this is one film that seems to just get better and better. Its superb. The film takes place in a year near 2100 and involves that complex plot that revolves around the fact that humans are now the energy source of a robot lifeform that have taken over the world. These Humans are grow on massive farms and their minds live in a computer programmed world know as the Matrix which is based on the ...
...human species'. Outside of the Matrix is a small number of people that battle to try and rescue those trapped in the Matrix moving between reality and and artificial realty where they are able to bend reality due to the fact that nothing there is really real. However they have been told by the pyschic Oricle that the leader of the humans Mophius will find the one that will save the world from the robots. THe film follows this quest to save the world ...

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The movie The Matrix, the actors are actors, some well known, others less known, all good, all perfectly cast to portray characters to play out what I consider one of the greatest SCI FI films made (thus far) this film will have no doubt reached cult status by now. The effect, ahhhh now to begin the review in earnest. What is the year 2003 or is it 2303, now consider this, the air you breath is not air, the job you have does not exist, the life you ...
...masters, machines with artificial intelligence, the winners in a nuclear holocaust. Now a few rebels know that this is the truth, the present human race has been testube grown and the electrical energy produced by our minds interacting with the Mainframe (Matrix) is harvested to run the machines. Why? Because the human race scorched the skies to cull the solar power to energise the machines, the rebels have to tell all, they have one problem they ...

clanmac4 22.12.2000 (28.12.2000) · Read full review
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...he is missing something. Until the day comes that he gets a phone call at work from Morpheous, telling him how to get away from these men in black types but he gets caught by them anyway. He finally meets Morpheous and gets a choice between a blue pill, which keeps things the way they are, and a red one that takes him to ‘wonderland’ where he can find out about ‘The Matrix’. Now, don’t quote me on anything here because ...
...I understand this is that the Matrix is not reality but somehow people seem to function there. But another place called Zion is reality. And the small group of people, at Zion, is using a computer program so they can do something to free the people in the Matrix. There seemed to be a lot going on and nothing was explained clearly. So I walked away from this movie confused about what it was really about. The Matrix had a lot of action to it and the ...

Terrie 08.01.2001 · Read full review
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...and it was not until the fourth helping until I was sure I knew what the heck it was all about. Will you excuse me a moment......Ive just sawn into my thumb, i should really go and stem the bleeding. Right, that was a fun little escapade. Anyhoo, when looking at the line up of the movie I wasn't too pleased to see Keanu Reeves playing the lead as Neo. I considered bad casting as in my opinion he hadn't made a movie worth watching since Bill and ...
...wrong. He has to play the part of quite possibly the coolest hero of all movie history. And despite him not being all that cool, he somehow pulls it out of the bag. Magic stuff from Reeves. But not a patch on Morpheus who really led the Nebacunezzar as if he really had lived with the crew all his life. The movie sees you cast into a world of disbelief and it never hints at whether it is a science fiction movie, really set 1000 years in the future ...

Dave999 04.05.2003 · Read full review
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This film leaps the chasm towards the new millenium with fast-paced intelligent science fiction that could almost be fact - probably not one for the die hard technical sci-fi buffs, it appeals directly to the mainstream with its inclusion of black-clad sex-god Keanu. This film has spawned an entire bible of terms and catchphrases and philosophical debates amongst teens and young adults. What is reality? That classic dilemma - is it real - or is it ...
...soon - or even now. The sfx are classic - time to suspend disbelief and enter the fantasy with the black and leather-clad superfit and empowered heroes. Is Keanu truly the second coming? Perhaps - the fight scenes are a mastery of precision choreography, heralding a new era in cinematography, the gadgets and accessories are the ultimate in classic black (in a way that Men in Black is just a childish parody of!)and the enemy is the ubiquitous ever-present ...

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the Matrix is a brilliant film - so cleverly made and yet so well put together that it seems real - but is it? Is the Matrix real? Who knows - but I do know that the film is a great film - in fact probably one of the top 25 films of all time - the special effects are superb and the acting is brilliant. I have seen this film many times and the DVD film lets you basically rip the film apart and watch any part you like - watch the making of it, see ...

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