Reviewed by: Becca

Directed by: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Mahiro Maeda, Andy Jones, Shinichiro Watanabe, & Takeshe Koike

Distributed by: Village Roadshow Pictures Entertainment & Warner Home Video

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Nine short animated films that share the general theme of the war between humanity and artificial intelligence. In "Final Flight of the Osiris," the crew of a hovercraft must get a message back to Zion and battle an armada of Sentinels along the way. As the genesis of the film "The Matrix," "The Second Renaissance-Parts I and II" serve as a guided tour and history of the Matrix. In "Kid's Story," a high school boy gets a personalized invitation from Neo to escape the Matrix. "Program" features a simulated Samurai training program in which a soldier of Zion is forced to chose between love and her comrades in the real world. In "World Record," a world-record holding sprinter breaks out of the Matrix. The quiet town of "Beyond" features a bug in the system--in the form of an abandoned mansion. "A Detective Story" finds a hard-boiled detective tracking cyber-criminal Trinity through the looking glass. And in "Matriculated," a small group of rebels capture a sentient robot and proceed to program it as an ally for their cause.

WOW! If I could make that one word my entire review then that would be it. However, I am sure people would not like that, so here it goes. This movie is made up of several different anime explaining different aspects of the movie, the Matrix. The first one was gorgeous, not much information, but it was so beautiful you completely forget that it's not real. I have to say that there are some that are a little boring, but you get over it. Each story helps explain what is going on in the movie the Matrix that was never explained in the actual movie.

It tells the story of the boy that Neo saved... but didn't really save. You know the one in Matrix Reloaded that he keeps saying, "He saved himself!" It will explain that entire story to you, along with several other questions that you have had and never could find the answer for in the movie. Every anime is done by a different artist and you can SEE this. Each design, coloring it's all different. Anime fan or Matrix fan see this now!