The Matrix
Large Photo	Starring: Keanu Reeves, Marcus Chong, Julian Arahanga, Hugo Weaving, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, Gloria Foster Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video Running Time: 136 minutes Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2128 Average Customer Rating: UPC: 085391163176 List price: $12.98	Save 39% off list price Price Range: $7.95 - $11.69

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Neo thus embarks on an adventure that is both terrifying and enthralling. Pitted against an enemy that transcends human concepts of evil, Morpheus and his team must train Neo to believe that he is the chosen champion of their fight. With mind-boggling, technically innovative special effects and a thought-provoking script that owes a debt of inspiration to the legacy of cyberpunk fiction, this is much more than an out-and-out action yarn; it's a thinking man's journey into the realm of futuristic fantasy, a dreamscape full of eye candy that will satisfy sci-fi, kung fu, action, and adventure fans alike. Although the film is headlined by Reeves and Fishburne--who both turn in fine performances--much of the fun and excitement should be attributed to Moss, who flawlessly mixes vulnerability with immense strength, making other contemporary female heroines look timid by comparison. And if we were going to cast a vote for most dastardly movie villain of 1999, it would have to go to Hugo Weaving, who plays the feckless, semipsychotic Agent Smith with panache and edginess. As the film's box-office profits soared, the Wachowski brothers announced that The Matrix is merely the first chapter in a cinematically dazzling franchise--a chapter that is arguably superior to the other sci-fi smash of 1999 (you know... the one starring Jar Jar Binks). --Jeremy Storey

Reviews

One of the great acton movies -	The Matrix Review
This movie set the trend for all action movies after it. The story and direction worked on a more sophisticated level. All of the actors came across great. Great VFX
great movie that started a great trilogy -	The Matrix Review
I loved this movie and I can't recomend this enough to any fan of the actors or actresses in the movie.
Good Product -	The Matrix Review
This awesome movie with the slow motion fight scenes started a new fight phase of this century. Product is an awesome item. Great movie. Think beyond what you see.
AND IF THE PROPHECY CAME TRUE? WHAT THEN? -	The Matrix Review
It's 1999. Question: What if you woke one day to find and to follow a sequence of remarkale evnts that led to the realizaion that the world around you, including all your most intimate associations, those given to you by your senses, was merely an illusion, a construct desined to control you, subliminally, for the beneift of un-alive, half-beings fundamenally unlike yourelf? What would you do? What could you do? What if all this were "a world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." What then? (1) Would you quit your Programmer job? (2) Would you Join a band of cyber-space rebels? What if you were invited into it by someone irresistably attractive? (3) What if the doping, pleasure-driven Web rebels knew you only by your Net pseudonym, and accepted you totally for what you only partly believed yourself to be? Could you accept them? (4) What if the leader of the Web rebels believed in you and your destiny, devoutly, and showed you that he'd been for most of his life dedicated to your appearance, and what if he were able to show you both your orignis and your destiny? Would you believe and follow him? (5) And what if this man, this dangerous outlaw, believed you were the savior of "the world" or, of Humanity? (6) And what if he were able to show you in a convincing way, what reality was, and how you were trapped in the lie of it? (7) And what if he were to introduce you to a clairvoyant who, though socially inappropriate, read the future? Would you accept her message? (8) Would you, as one of the fugitive band of time-travellers beyond the Matrix, join in a battle with the mechanized forces of the Matrix itself? Would you confront it's terrifying and powerful agents? At he risk of your life? (9) Braving discomfort, bad food, and sensual deprivation, would you risk your identity and your ideal self to battle against the authoritarian agents of the Matrix? (10) And would you risk everything for someone who believed in you absoluely, and loved you beyond anything you'd peviously imagined? (11) And betrayal? It is inevitable. Will you be able to face it and survive? Phrophecy is funny: People only talk about it, when they talk about it, to show they don't believe in it. Mark of a decadent age. A lack of moral imagination is the hallmark of decay. Weep, my friends. But, a voice speaks through the modem. It says, "I know you are out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afrid of us; afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this will end. I came here to tell you how this is going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone and I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm gong to show them a world without rules or conrols; without boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is up to you."' The Wachowski brothers who produced this film are said to hail from Chicago. In that city adults tell children that the (arctic) climate builds character. Perhaps it may. Adversity has strange offspring. Who knows what may, or may not have come out of that brutally cold, utterly corrupt but quintessentially American city?
I am outraged...1999 disc in 2008 box-when a 2003 remaster exists! -	The Matrix Review
I just purchased the newly-in-a- keepcase (not a snapper)edition which has ©2008 on the back cover fine print (Amazon says 2007) I had held out because I had heard rave reviews of the remaster for the box set back in 2003-which you could only buy in the set at the time . I already had the 1999 disc-so I could wait So, 5 years later a new package, with new package design work, current year copyright,-and WHV sitting on a nice RM for a few years I thought "Aha! Now is the time to get it it!"=thinking that after all the years they would ditch the 1999 transfer. I watched the movie and thought, hmmmmmmmm nothing here that outstanding-almost looks like the old disc. So I put my disc into my iMac, opened it on the desktop-nothing! I use this trick to determine when a discs is remastered. They can press the disc for 5 years but the transfer date is the constant on file creation. WTF? I open to a blank page! no TS_AUDIO, no TS_VIDEO no .VOB files nothing-these would show dates of creation on them, so one can tell the last time a disc was remastered. My long used trick didnt work. Then I get the idea to do a 'right click' to 'get info' from the menu Lets party like it was 1999! August 2-to be exact. Seems like they were hiding something? an 8 year old transfer in a 2008 box......"File creation date-Aug 2, 1999" hmmmmmm is it just me? I also notice on the inner ring, a different catalog number-and MADE IN CANADA printed on the plastic) Curiously, nowhere on the label is a visible date or place of manufacture-which I thought to be law. And the box has the ©2008 date only Misspackaging? They should destroy back stock, or stop printinng them-not reship it at this late date as if 'new' I dont think the marketseller will refund me-"Whaaaa! I got the 1999 pressing I want my money back"-he couldnt know This has me pi**ed because they have been sitting on a remaster for several years-and it should have been made available as a single disc by now- I didnt want the whole box-back then, or now After all, it would not be two far out of reason to expect it with new box/design change, that they would use the new transfer,no? With an economic meltdown happening right before our eyes-$175 Trillion in bailouts (total so far), consumer spending dropping like a stone,- and the deficits-we sit in a trance and allow this I would not offend the still very large S-DVD market which is still 90% of your revenue-BR can never quite keep a continual average of 10% in monthly sales (source: videoscan/endgadget-industry gerbils- for past 6 months ZD Net-a popular widely read IT i-zine' -say 5% 0f the market)-and now you can bet that will drop with the economy. a 10% sales drop in DVD sales could be absorbed-a 10% in BR would finish it off Sales of players are slow now and will be dead in Jan-you can see the writing on the wall-"BUY ANY 1 BR title AND GET 3 FREE!! Not exactly confidence building- which i s why Ive held off- and who knows how long I will have my job? And YOU? So Warner-dont pull tricks like you did to 'force' us from LD to DVD-namely-by either giving the BR the special features ONLY, and for SDVD, sloppy pressing and packaging-or not even manufacturing the disc at all. BOTH SONY and WHV were guilty of this when DVD started. Some will chime in "Nobodies forcing you to go to BR..." Well, if I like watching moves or getting SEs-and they no longer press them on DVD-I AM forced-into BR-not a very good marketing idea when we may soon see 25% unemployment*-and people will only buy NECESSITIES (nobody in finance the fairy tale calculation models that BLS use seriuosly-which curiuosly make things look 'rosier' than they really are-they ONLY count you as UE if you are COLLECTING UC..the rest of you can get lost for all they care) They say 6.5%! ha!
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