Matrix

Pros: Great story line, Keanu is dreamy, nifty special effects
Cons: There were a few scenes without Keanu

Even though I am an ardent admirer of Keanu Reeves' work and can think of nary a bad thing to say about him, I put off seeing The Matrix for a year after its release. I heard people using phrases like futuristic sci-fi, shiny leather, rag-tag band of...

Pros: Visually stimulating, good video game tie in, metaphor upon metaphor
Cons: metaphor upon metaphor, and a setup that makes no sense

What is the matrix? It's a Hollywood blockbuster that ties CGI special effects, 'club' black designer togs, and fight-by-wire fu to a dream-world story where people can be Superman just by wishing it were so. Open the comic book. Become Superman. Jump...

Pros: An original and intelligently written script, the best action sequences this side of a John Woo film
Cons: The villain is underdeveloped and one-dimensional, the romance between Neo and Trinity is lame

Last year saw the release of two major sci-fi movies, The Matrix and the highly anticipated, highly disappointing The Phantom Menace. While The Phantom Menace was clearly the one everybody was waiting to see, in...

Pros: Special Effects, Great Storyline, I could go on
Cons: Absolutely None

Sheesh, 935 opinions written about this movie already and I'm about to add opinion number 936, am I insane?, I mean what is there that I could tell you about this that hasn't already been said?, dunno to be honest, but I'm up for writing, I mean I'm...

Pros: Decent special effects. Original idea. Good action scenes
Cons: A bit thin on story line. Not as much a special effects masterpiece as I had been led to believe

I saw The Matrix finally about two months ago and I have been mulling over how to review the film for the last few weeks.

Just about everyone on Epinions and just about everyone I know has been quick to hail it as a masterpiece of plot and...

Pros: Reeves, Fishburne, Moss, Weaving, SFX, etc.
Cons: zip, zilch, nada, zero, absolutely none!

Thomas Anderson, a.k.a. Neo (Keanu Reeves, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Devil's Advocate), is trapped in a world he feels is wrong. Whatever it is, he can't explain it. However, he knows it has to do with at least on ...

Pros: special effects
Cons: naltogether not that good

I liked it the first time I saw it, then I started hating it for some reason, why? I found it too vague after I had really come to understand and analyze it. Don’t get me wrong, the story did start off good and had definite potential, but it wasn't...

Pros: Kung-fu and plastic pants.
Cons: Intensely silly plot.

I guess that Epinions really needed an 1124th opinion about The Matrix -- but it fits in a theme with two other reviews I've done, recently, with Dianetics and Zacharia Sitchin on the subject of religion and science...

Pros: Stunning visual style and special effects. Very interesting premise.
Cons: Marginal acting. Too many holes in the underlying logic and science.

Science fiction writers regularly make questionable science essential in their works, taking the risk that knowledgeable audiences will not accept their contraventions of logic and the laws of physics. Nearly everyone accepts faster than light travel,...

Pros: Awesome effects, great noir feel, deep storyline.
Cons: Loud and will probably leave you deaf!

Outline: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.

Andy and Larry Wachowski have created a thematic and sci-fi revolution with this quick paced...

Pros: The special effects
Cons: Can be confusing the first time

The first thing I have come to realize after watching this movie, that really has nothing to do with the plot is, That men wearing dark sunglasses and black trenchcoats just make my belly feel like it is filled with butterflies!

Keanu Reeves...

Pros: Deep plot makes your head spin with visual and sound effects.
Cons: Kind of hard to follow if you don't pay attention to detail

This move was absolutely fabulous. The special effects blew my mind. The sound effects with surround sound make me feel like I am Neo. This movie was absolutely out of this world and I so eagerly await the followup version.

This movie is a...

Pros: A film with a message which bears on the viewers' daily lives. Thoughtful and interesting
Cons: Does not stand up very well to repeated viewing

At the risk of repeating what a few hundred people have already said, I am writing this review of "The Matrix" in response to Witch_Writer's review of the same film. Hopefully there will be something of interest in it to at least a few other...

Pros: Artfully done, well acted, excellently written
Cons: if anything: Trinity falling in love with Neo seems doubtful

Have you ever thought that something about your world was not quite right? Like it was just a dream, or something just not quite as it should be? The makers of the Matrix took this idea and ran with it and created a movie that is visually and technically...

Pros: good special effects
Cons: kind of lame ending, not very original

Maybe its just me, but I thought that The Matrix was not very original at all. Dark City was very similar to the Matrix, both is content and in special effects. Also the whole idea of, "Are we but a dream within a dream?" and what's really...