The Matrix: Lets Redefine Cinema. ****

So Yesterday we decided to watch "The Matrix" and I simply forgot how awesome this movie really was.

Well as the movie starts it gives a scene the audience has to watch and chew on as their curiosity itches as to what the matrix is. Trinity is shown taking out a bunch of cops simply by breaking the rules of gravity and climbing on walls and kicking chairs to redirect bullets. This can't happen in real life so what is The Matrix? This is the question that drives the entire movie. Yes the beginning is mysterious, edgy, and melodramatic but that just adds to factor of what the matrix really is. This movie acts like a new invention, we sit there waiting and wondering what the heck this special machine does, then when it springs into action it absolutely blows our minds. The special effects in this movie are top notch, some of the best since "Terminator 2" and they are timeless in a sense as well.

This movie is very smart as it develops its theory of "The Matrix" and not only does it tell us what the matrix really is but it give comments upon human existence and how we are viewed not only by God or other humans but possibly machines as well. This movie is so creative that it alludes to religious savior like attitudes as it alludes to Jesus using "The One" perspective. This movie not only blew our minds but redefined Cinema forever because of One scene, Bullet Time. In this scene, Neo, Dodges a chamber of Bullets as an agent is shooting him and the camera pans around him as we see these super slow motion bullets just grazing him. This scene is spectacular and one the most memorable scenes in any action movie ever made. This new invention is brilliant and sweet.

Well to summarize, this movie has a really awesome story, a creative theory and brilliant allusions to life and humanity, the acting is its big downfall as a rigid Keanu Reeves utters his lines like a drone but he still fits the role perfectly. Basically this movie is just so on top of its game in every other aspect that really the acting doesn't even matter. This is one the best action movies ever made. Its a classic.

X-Men Origins: A Bust. *

So I guess this is my first movie review of the blog so heres out it works. See the star beside the title? well the meter is out of four stars; four being excellent and one being not so excellent.

So here we Go!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a movie that I was so ready and excited to see. Having seen the trailer a dozen or more times I was more than ready to see just how Wolverine began, but who knew that it would turn out so boring? The most exciting part of this movie was the trailer. In the beginning there is a War scene that is also the credits scene and this is probably the coolest shot in the entire movie. After the titles arrive on the screen the movie just stops the excitement and tries to use drama to tell the story. But, if you're going to use dramatic effects please use actors that know how to act and please find a good writer. The dialogue in this movie is so disastrous, there is no wit, so substance to this drama. The drama just acts like a train transporting the audience from fight scene to fight scene.

Now this would work if the fight scenes were plenty and good but they aren't. There are Three big fight scenes in this movie and they aren't even that big at all. After the gambit/sabretooth/ wolverine fight I seriously sat there and exclaimed "That's it?" And the final climatic fight scene looked so fake I was just simply bored. If your going to use big special effects please use good ones. The horrible special effects just took me out of the movie; there was even a part when wolverine was looking at his claws in a bathroom mirror and they looked so fake; it was so stupid. Another big downer was that the use of the characters wasn't well done at all. If I was Stan Lee and saw this movie I would be so upset with how badly the characters were treated, there was zero development of any of them; and they were all mechanical and lacked life with every line they uttered.

Well to summarize this movie is simple, the script is giant cliche, the fight scenes have potential but simply didn't excite me what-so-ever, the special effects were notoriously horrible, and the story wasn't exciting at all. Basically as I sat in the theater after the movie I just said to my buddy, "man I'm glad wolverine forgot his origin, because it sucked." We had a chuckle. I hope the rest of the summer blockbusters aren't like this because if they are, its going to be one crappy summer.