The Matrix
Cast
Keanu Reeves as Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith
Gloria Foster as Oracle
Its about Neo (Keanu Reeves) who becomes part of The Matrix. The Matrix is a complex computer program. In the Matrix Agents exist. Agents can jump fom mind to mind, so they never die. Agents are the bad-guys. Neo and his side-kick, Trinity, have to go into the Matrix to rescue thier leader Morpheous because the evil Agents captured him. Can they do it?
Rater #1
8/10. What an interesting movie. I've been reading comparisons to the Matrix lately about how it relates to chrisitianity. I can see where they are getting at, but it is a rather odd comparison.
Anyway, this movie is one of those extremely high tech movies. I haven't even watched all the bonus stuff yet on the DVD. I was amazed at the action. This must've been hard to pull off, and I bet they got an extremely big raise in budget for Matrix Reloaded, and Revolutions. I almost thought that those 2 movies would come out at the same time, and create box office suicide.
The characters in this movie were interesting. Keanu Reeves as Neo seemed to not understand what was going on at all throughout most of the movie. Though, I guess his character wasn't supposed too. Laurence Fishburn was great as Morpheous. Interesting character fit with an interesting man. Though out of all of these people, not one of them is familiar to me
Some things that I thought were weird was the getting unplugged thing. It was kind of freaky. Though, there was something that I didn't understand. Neo woke up and could see. Then later when he's getting his muscles, he complains that he can't see.
One last thing. Computer code is 0's and 1's not all of the numbers unless they were changed in the distant future.
All in all, this was a good movie and should be seen by 14 year olds and up because I think the younger ones will be freaked out.
Rater #2
7/10. Thomas A. Anderson is in trouble. Words appear on his computer
screen, telling him to "follow the white rabbit". He does, and a
mysterious woman named Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) tells him
that "they have been looking for him" and says something about the
Matrix, leaving Thomas very confused. In his work the next day,
Thomas is chased by some guys. Not exactly "good guys". He meets
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and Morpheus tells him that once he
goes into the real world, he can never go back. Thomas, who becomes
Neo, does. And he finds out about the Matrix and everything.
That may not make sense, but it does in the movie. Thomas A.
Anderson/Neo is played by Keanus Reeves, keeping his status as "cool
action dude" real. He originally is skeptical, but soon learns the
truth, and he begins, shall I say, enjoy it.
The Matrix draws you in with special effects gadgets and weird
things, but soon teeters away from that, making you glued to your
seat because you're wating for the next one. While there are
tremondous special effects (some were under-utilized, I'm assuming
they'll be in the sequels), some of the characters came and went, and
the script (by the directors, the Wachowski brothers) didn't really
introduce them to us. Maybe if a little less of the fighting (which
was very cool) and more of the basics had been there, it would have
been easier.
Of course, movies like this can't be without mumbo-jumbo. The
mystical Morpheus does most of it-talking philosophically and not
making sense at times. I got the rudimentary idea behind most of it
(like that they actually didn't go the Matrix, etc.), but it tried to
get too in-depth.
The Matrix was fun and enjoyable, with some heartpounding scenes and
cool special effects (love that bullet-stopping). The acting was all
very good-Reeves, as I've said before, was good and might be coming
back. Fishburne is good as the guy who knows everything but cannot
speak it (i.e. Dobby?), and I love Moss-she's great and a rising
action star. I didn't really notice that Joe Pantoliano was there,
but his voice sounded familiar. He looks a lot different than from
Memento.
The Matrix is a fun FX ridden piece that doesn't waste time
on "trivial" aspects such as characters.
Rater #3
8/10. This movie was really confusing. If you miss anything then it will be hard to understand. The fighting was awesome! There were great special effects, and the whole concept of the Matrix is very cool. I would reccomend this movie to people who can pay attention and like Sci-fi.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie
Rater #5
Has Not Seen Movie
Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language.
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