I watched Matrix for the first time (I’m 27)
Ok so my girlfriend’s dad is a huge sci-fi guy and wants me to catch up on all the best of the genre. So he lend me the trilogy in DVD.
We watched the first one with my girlfriend tonight and I have to say that I liked the movie but it’s not the wow effect I was expecting.
I liked the first hour, I didn’t understand anything and I liked it. Then all the ship part was a bit boring and not as philosophical as the first part. I think that the action part, is not really what I like in the movie.
And I knew some of the cult moment. So it’s not that I was expecting something from them but at least more than what I felt. For example the pill sequence for me was to fast, I wanted Neo to have a real dilemma and not just picking the red pill. Other example, the sequence of the music with the red dress girl was to quick for me, I wanted my mind to be blown by deep explanation of what the matrix implied.
To me the most memorable part was the spoon, that’s when you understand really the power of the mind, the white box where Morpheus explains the Matrix and last fight in the subway.
The downside for me is that sometimes the movie tells you to much things. In thins kind of movie, I want to be free having theories and I felt to guided and things were to obvious. Like the squid part at the end creates a fake sens of pressure, I almost felt like the end of Armageddon.
In conclusion, I think that it’s a great movie but I won’t rate it as high as a Blade Runner for example so I would give it a good 7/10. I want to watch the whole trilogy to see what more can there be in this universe.