Matrix

Pros: Great effects
Cons: not enough fighting with fists

The actors may not have been mainstream well paid ones but this movie was great no matter what people say. I mean I really loved this movied. The first time I saw it in theaters I was like "Wow!" and I couldn't imagine a movie being so...

Pros: fantastical storyline, unmatched special effects, a real winner
Cons: nothing

The first time I saw The Matrix in theaters, I really didn't "get" all of it. I missed so many of the things that make this movie as fabulous as it is. But watching it on DVD makes the movie even that much better... Especially if you...

Pros: Special Effects, Realism
Cons: Open Ended Ending (Somewhat) :-(

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Wow, what a great movie. Many things came into play when I was deciding weather or not to like it or not. First of all, the philosophy behind the film is rather strange. Usually I do not like movies whose themes are too far...

Pros: Great action scenes, great special effects, and basically anything else you can think of
Cons: None

Wow. That's what I said when the movie ended. Technically, I should've said "Whoa", but I was too amazed to think about that. I didn't get to see it in the theatre because my parents didn't want me seeing it at first. I don't know why...maybe...

Pros: Story Plot... Special Effects... Cast...
Cons: No Sequel Yet

The Matrix goes beyond our cyber imaginations.

The characters were thrillingly exciting, the camaraderie great and trying, and the special effects some of the best ever.


Can you imagine living your whole life;...

Pros: This movie is exciting and original!
Cons: Needs a sequel, which isn't really a con.

Pop Quiz: You're a computer programmer who suspects reality isn't all it's cracked up to be and you know the answer lies in the Matrix -- but you have absolutely no idea what the Matrix is.

What do you do? What do you do?

Well, if...

Pros: Delivers on the promise of its set-up; exhilarating special F/X
Cons: Might not hold up to much scrutiny

There’s an early moment in The Matrix when Keanu Reeves’ character retrieves contraband from a hollowed-out copy of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, one of the canonical texts of Postmodernism in which Baudrillard suggests that modern reality...

Pros: great movie, great graphics, great story.
Cons: none

This is one of the great movies of all times, I went to this movie because I heard people talking about it all the time on the net. Everyone I know refers to this movie at least once a week, it has a genre its own in the sci-fi entire thriller with a...

Pros: Original story idea and excellent special effects
Cons: none

I saw this movie because a friend of mine rented it. I don't usually like action movies, but I promised to watch this one with my friend. I was extremely surprised by this movie. The special effects were outstanding. The story line was original in my...

Pros: Everything
Cons: (none)

A computer genius that is know as Neo (Reeves), gets involved with a group who knows the greatest secret being kept from man kind: The Matrix. After finding out what it is, he, together with the group, has to go out and destroy the creators of the...

Pros: somewhat unique plot, concept
Cons: Keanu, leaps of logic, oh, and Keanu

So finally I am the last person on the planet to see The Matrix. It took me two years to see Pulp Fiction, which turned out to be one of my favorite movies of all times so, Keanu or no Keanu, who knows.

Of the...

Pros: EVERYTHING!!! ITS GREAT!!!
Cons: you don't own it already!

THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE _EVER_ MADE!!! Omg, you’ve got to go and see this movie, its to bad you missed it in the theatres, but its still great on your TV. I got the DVD and the VHS of it, and I’m still not tired of it! The characters are great, the plot...

Pros: Thought-provoking, good action
Cons: Confusing--but it makes you think!

The Matrix is one of those films that haunts you for months and months after seeing it. It provokes out of the blue discussions with your spouse and "What if?" theories that keep you awake at night. Did I like it? Indeed!
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Pros: The whole movie
Cons: None

When I first heard of a new sci-fi futuristic movie with Keanu Reeves I was like Oh God! Here we go with one of these stupid films with bad special effects etc.

But I when I did finally see it on pay-per-view it was worth the $3.95, It was an...

Pros: Interesting concept
Cons: acting, plot holes, RIP OFF!!!!!!, cheesy cgi enhaced wire fu.

What is the Matrix?....a rip off of great Sci-Fi, Japanese Animation, and Kung Fu movies. When I first saw the Matrix I had this feeling of Deja Vu (real Deja Vu not the Matrix Version of it). After I got a DVD player and got some of my favorite movie...