The Matrix (4K Ultra HD) [4K UHD]

Love this movie

Exceptional movie and worth watching more than once.The plot makes the mature viewer think. It’s ironic when this movie was produced technology was not as advanced.

This film keeps being just as relevant and powerful as the day it was released. There are layers of messages throughout.A true cinematic masterwork. One of Warner Bros. finest!

Always ennoyed the movie. All as expecyed and arrived quickly

The Reality Is All Virtual, And Densely Complicated.Action heroes speak volumes about the couch-potato audiences that they thrill. So it's understandable that ''The Matrix,'' a furious special-effects tornado directed by the imaginative brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski (''Bound''), couldn't care less about the spies, cowboys and Rambos of times gone by. Aiming their film squarely at a generation bred on comics and computers, the Wachowskis stylishly envision the ultimate in cyberescapism, creating a movie that captures the duality of life a la laptop. Though the wildest exploits befall this film's sleek hero, most of its reality is so virtual that characters spend long spells of time lying stock still with their eyes closed.In a film that's as likely to transfix fans of computer gamesmanship as to baffle anyone with quaintly humanistic notions of life on earth, the Wachowskis have synthesized a savvy visual vocabulary (thanks especially to Bill Pope's inspired techno-cinematography), a wild hodgepodge of classical references (from the biblical to Lewis Carroll) and a situation that calls for a lot of explaining.The most salient things any prospective viewer need know is that Keanu Reeves makes a strikingly chic Prada model of an action hero, that the martial arts dynamics are phenomenal (thanks to Peter Pan-type wires for flying and inventive slow-motion tricks), and that anyone bored with the notably pretentious plotting can keep busy toting up this film's debts to other futuristic science fiction. Neat tricks here echo ''Terminator'' and ''Alien'' films, ''The X-Files,'' ''Men in Black'' and ''Strange Days,'' with a strong whiff of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' in the battle royale being waged between man and computer. Nonetheless whatever recycling the brothers do here is canny enough to give ''The Matrix'' a strong identity of its own.Mr. Reeves plays a late-20th-century computer hacker whose terminal begins telling him one fateful day that he may have some sort of messianic function in deciding the fate of the world. And what that function may be is so complicated that it takes the film the better part of an hour to explain. Dubbed Neo (in a film whose similarly portentous character names include Morpheus and Trinity, with a time-traveling vehicle called Nebuchadnezzar), the hacker is gradually made to understand that everything he imagines to be real is actually the handiwork of 21st-century computers. These computers have subverted human beings into batterylike energy sources confined to pods, and they can be stopped only by a savior modestly known as the One.We know even before Neo does that his role in saving the human race will be a biggie. (But on the evidence of Mr. Reeves's beautiful, equally androgynous co-star, Carrie-Anne Moss in Helmut Newton cat-woman mode, propagating in the future looks to be all business.) The film happily leads him through varying states of awareness, much of it explained by Laurence Fishburne in the film's philosophical-mentor role. Mr. Fishburne's Morpheus does what he can to explain how the villain of a film can be ''a neural interactive simulation'' and that the Matrix is everywhere, enforced by sinister morphing figures in suits and sunglasses. ''The Matrix'' is the kind of film in which sunglasses are an integral part of sleekly staged fight scenes.With enough visual bravado to sustain a steady element of surprise (even when the film's most important Oracle turns out to be a grandmotherly type who bakes cookies and has magnets on her refrigerator), ''The Matrix'' makes particular virtues out of eerily inhuman lighting effects, lightning-fast virtual scene changes (as when Neo wishes for guns and thousands of them suddenly appear) and the martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point. As supervised by Yuen Wo Ping, these airborne sequences bring Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind.

Finally saw this movie. Rented it here and glad I didn't buy it. One viewing was fine. Agree with another reviewer about the sound being sub-optimal in too many places. Glad it wasn't just me who missed some dialogue.I saw three things in particular I would have missed years ago. One, the pods of cloned babies drifting in space so their loosh could farmed, which made me think of the orphan trains of maybe a hundred years ago. Two, seeing human remains injected into the characters. Many states in the US allow water cremation, or alkaline hydrolysis, and the resulting "sterile" water from that goes down the drain into the sewer system ... and into our drinking water supply? Three, seeing the dominance of AI (especially personified in a character) which we all see now as pervasive.Predictive programming?

Classic!

This was an original script with amazing special effects for its time. No one had done the bullet tracking and the signature 'matrix moves' of fighting characters before this movie. By the time the 2nd and 3rd movies were made so many of the special effects had been parodied that the sequels looked almost cliché. This movie is in a cannon by itself and IMHO is unattached to sequels in everyway regarding story. The story was simple A.I. gone bad, enslaves humanity, humanity needs to liberate itself by destroying A.I. or humanity dies as continually evolving species. This is completely changed in the other movies. It makes me believe the story about the Wachioski brother's having stolen this story idea from another writer. It's obvious b/c of the length of time between the 1st movie and the sequels the Wachoski brothers had nothing written to follow-up the original Matrix. Who does that in sequel idis Hollywood now a days--unless you stole the idea from someone else and had no idea where the story was going? Not saying this is true, but it makes one wonder upon viewing the complete different goal of humanity in the sequels. The Matrix is an amazing movie and story by itself and is best reviewed as a stand alone film. END OF MATRIX REVIEW#Spoiler #whysequels suckThey contradiction the goal our heroes in the first movie to destroy the Matrix. In short humanity (Zion) decides to work with the A.I. to keep it running while allowing some human beings to remain as batteries for the machine. What? This would surely set-up the extinction of the human race. Humanity could not survive or evolve in a machine / holographic world. The goal of humanity is to evolve beyond all illusions and bondage to materialism--eventually I suppose. Humanity is part of nature (we forget) and if profound alter a natural being particularly on with higher intelligence then it would either shut down or wake up from an inferior creation matrix created by the A.I. It wouldn't matter whether the A.I. was evolving or not. A program is limited by its creator and if a creation destroys or enslaves the creator then it kills itself. Humans must evolve or die like all species. Remember Malcolm's speech in the first Jurassic Park regarding how nature cannot be contained. That's what the out of control A.I. is doing to humanity...containing it. The A.I. in the sequels falsely presents itself to the humans of Zion as being on their side. It pretends that the Mr.Smith Program has gone rogue and the humans should join them program by defeating Mr. Smith. This is ridiculous because the A.I. is ONE program. The A.I. is cleverly misdirecting the humans. Morpheus clearly stated in original movie that the Matrix had to be destroyed for ALL of humanity to be truly free. In these sequels Morpheus' character is diminished as we are informed that he is wrong in his initial goal to destroy the A.I. and free all human beings. So let's just through the most famous line in firs Matrix movie, "Free Your Mind." By the 3rd movie the A.I. has convinced the humans of Zion that it's best for some humans (already in the matrix) to remain plugged in the system. It offered to give the plugged up humans a choice. The sequels ultimately show the death sentence for humanity as they give-up their collective rights as autonomous species. Sound familiar.