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

I would guess that 99 out of a 100 people thinking about buying this movie have seen it before. It is, after all, a seminal and beloved classic at this point. So what most people want to know is whether the remaster into Dolby Vision/Atmos is good enough to be worth buying.If you have a modern home theater system/DVD player that can support Dolby Vision the answer is yes, get it. The transfer is beautiful, and it really pops on a modern TV that supports Dolby Vision. You'll see the pores on the actor's faces, the threads in their clothes, and a million other tiny details that you've never seen before unless you were lucky enough to catch the original film in theaters. It was a visually stunning movie when it came out, and Dolby Vision really helps to bring that out.On the other hand, the Atmos remix is very subtle and understated. There are a couple of nice height effects here and there, but it really isn't a movie that constantly showcases the new audio technology. I would say 98% of it is going to come through just fine with just a simple surround setup. So you are really buying this not for the audio remix, but for the HDR/Dolby Vision upgrade. I didn't think the audio was bad, but it is just not nearly as big an upgrade as the picture. That is perhaps not surprising given that the film was originally shot in 1999, and Atmos didn't even exist at the time of filming.If you are like me, most of the movies and TV you watch these days are streamed. This high bit-rate, Dolby Vision Blu-Ray is a startling reminder of just how deeply compromised streaming still is. If you bought a good TV in say the last five years, your TV is capable of a far, far better picture than what you are feeding it most of the time. For the moment, the only way to get a picture this good at home is to buy the physical disc, and this one should be in your library.

I love that it has so many features!!!! For true matrix lovers!A must watch for everyone! I love the existentialism behind the fantasy.

I’ve always loved this movie, but when I went to rewatch it with some of my friends who have never seen it, it became so much better! Definitely a must watch

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Very entertaining movie

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?

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.