The Matrix is full o shit

[Pietro Paolo Virdis]

Even part one.
I watched it once more yesterday. This whole... nothing is everything and everything is nothing... you only think that it is what you see and what you see is what you think... don’t try to jump, know that you can jump... shtick is worse than attending Catholic mass.

There’s this scene when Neo visits the oracle. He waits among a bunch of children where one child is bending spoons. Neo is amazed. The child tells him something along the lines of “the trick is not to bend the spoon, the trick is knowing that there is no spoon”. Then Neo is given a shot at it.

So, if there is no spoon, and Neo doesn’t know there is no spoon until the kid tells him, then Neo can’t see the spoon which he can bend himself because it’s not even there. How is Neo supposed to see the spoon which isn’t there until the kid tells him he’s bending a spoon only the kid up until then knows isn’t there at all but is being bent because the kid knows it isn’t there and.... aargh, I give up.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The Matrix is full o shit

They know they want to talk to Neo. They could just, you know, invite him to a party. Maybe a nice coffee and a biscuit, in a cafe. No, they have him damn near shot to death in his office and then make him jump off a building.

It's complete and utter tosh from start to (especially) finish.

[ian.64]

The Matrix is full o shit

There's always Candarel.

I like the Matrix movies for its few abiding aspects, those being its pure technical professionalism and the admirable style in which set-pieces and other action sequences are put together with a superbly-crafted sleekness and imagination that still arrests the eye.

A pity then that the makers plonked within its centre a windbag, po-faced and humourless sack of gubbins that makes the journey through the entire trilogy as smooth and as exhilerating as a walk through a pool of stodgy treacle while wearing a pair of underpants filled with gravel. Like Man of Steel, humour that'd leaven the entire enterprise is forbidden to make an appearance lest the gravitas of the piece is spoiled. The dour buggers.

Top marks to Hugo Weaving for a superbly villainous antagonist (he looks like he's the only one having fun), but boy, it's a trawl.

[Stumpy Pepys]

The Matrix is full o shit

It's hokum but it's coherent, entertaining hokum. Not like both of the sequels.

My issue with it is, to quote Wikipedia:

It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source.

Now the laws of thermodynamics tell us this makes no sense, as you inevitably get less energy out of a human than you put in. Why not just fucking murder them all?

[Max Payne]

The Matrix is full o shit

Matrix 2 & 3 are right up there with the Star Wars prequels in the pantheon of pointlessness. It has all dated rather badly stylistically too though maybe Keanu fumbling with an iPhone would spoil the flow a bit.