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| MATRIX, THE (1999) - R
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ReviewScore: 71 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Duran calls the Matrix, which stars Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne "dazzling and disorienting." The sci-fi film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski is, he says, "a wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination." Many reviewers seem struck by the film's visual effects. "For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us," writes Ray Conlogue in the Toronto Globe & Mail. "The Matrix is so wild and crazed it requires adult supervision," Stephen Hunter comments in today's Washington Post, adding, "Thank God, it never got it. It rocks." Rod Dreher in the New York Post musters an equal amount of hip hurrahs, calling the film "a bug-eyed blast, a slick sci-fi thriller with spectacular special effects and hellzapoppin' action sequences among the most memorable ever put to film." He predicts that The Matrix "will do enormous business among genre fans alone." But Dreher is among many critics who fault what they suggest is a convoluted script. Dreher sums up his reaction to the script with the single exclamation, "Oy!" Jay Carr in the Boston Globe comments that the script "manages to be both silly and dense, and it's perfectly understandable that Keanu Reeves's hacker should spend a lot of the film looking puzzled about what's going on." But Mike Clark in USA Today predicts: "Look for computer-savvy teenagers to guarantee this sometimes original but too often derivative time-killer a shelf life." |
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