Product Description

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe PantolianoDirector: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Science Fiction
• Released on: 2008-11-24
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Portuguese
• Dubbed in: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .79 pounds
• Running time: 457 minutes

DVD Description
The Complete Matrix Trilogy features all three films in the trilogy together for the first time in mind-blowing high definition, with a newly re-mastered picture and sound for The Matrix.

The Matrix:

Neo (Keanu Reeves) seeks the truth about the Matrix. Only one man has the answer, an elusive dangerous man who is known as Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). A stranger called Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) invites Neo to follow a white rabbit which guides him into a parallel world. Reality is a world run by artificially intelligent machines who control the human slaves in a simulated 20th Century...

Matrix Reloaded:

Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) continue their battle against the machines in The Matrix Reloaded, the second chapter of Larry and Andy Wachowski's Matrix Trilogy. As Matrix Reloaded begins, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus arrive in Zion with new crew member Link (Harold Perrineau), and discover that 250,000 dreaded sentinels are close to launching a massive attack on the underground haven for the liberated minds of humanity. When Neo seeks advice from the prophetic Oracle (the late Gloria Foster), their meeting leads to a sorely outnumbered fight with Neo's old nemesis, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving). While the sentinels advance on Zion, various battles within the Matrix continue to escalate, culminating in an extended highway chase sequence involving Morpheus, Trinity, more imposing agents, and two new adversaries--the relentless white-clad Twins (Adrian and Neil Rayment).

Matrix Revolutions:

The final movie in Larry and Andy Wachowski's Matrix Trilogy is Matrix Revolutions. Neo (Keanu Reeves) is trapped in limbo between reality and the Matrix, while Zion, the last human city, is attacked by hordes of machines. Meanwhile, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), and Seraph (Collin Chou) confront the ruthless Merovingian (Lambert Wilson) to secure Neo's release. As the fight for Zion grows more dire, Neo and Trinity embark on a perilous journey into the heart of the machine city, while Morpheus and Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) rush to Zion's aid. Eventually, Neo must face the increasingly powerful Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in a last battle for the fate of humanity.

Special Features
• Written Introduction by the Wachowski Brothers

• Commentaries by:

Philosophers: Dr. Cornel West and Ken Wilber

Critics: Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson

Cast/Crew: Carrie-Anne Moss, Zach Staenberg and John Gaeta forThe Matrix

Composer: Don Davis with Music-Only Track for The Matrix

• Feature-Length Documentary The Matrix Revisited

• Behind The Matrix documentary galleries:

83 Featurettes with The MTV Movie Awards Reloaded and 3-D Evolutions

• Stills Gallery

• The Music Revisited: 41-Track Audio Selection of Nearly 3 Hours of Music

• Music Videos: Marilyn Manson’s Rock Is Dead and P.O.D's Sleeping Awake

• Enter The Matrix:

23 Live-Action Scenes Shot for the video game that plug into the action of The Matrix Reloaded

• Theatrical Trailers and TV spots

Customer Reviews

The Matrix Reinvigorated on Blu-Ray
A word about the Blu-Ray quality first. There are some very strange rumours on these pages such as saying that these films are just upscaled DVDs. I don't know where people get these ideas from, but it is simply not true. For a 10 year old film "The Matrix" is very close to the top of the Blu-Ray tree. The close-ups, particularly of Neo and Morpheus, are stunning reference level examples of depth and plasticity. I watched this projected c. 3m wide, and just gawped at the detail in Fishburne's pock-marked face: it was more like having a giant statue of his head on the wall than looking at a flat TV-like image.

What some people are looking at and not liking is probably either (a) the occasional use of green colour filtration which is a clever cinematic trick conveying the irreality of The Matrix or (b) the crushed blacks which are a stylistic choice by the film's makers. Yes, the black levels on "The Spirit" make a mockery of these, but that's the look they've gone with. It is also true that not all scenes have reference level sharpness and HD image quality. But very few films 'pop' constantly as it gets boring, and with the aesthetic choices made the film has a very good share of stupendous image quality

Audio quality is very good (5.1 True HD) with dialogue and effects well balanced, although some late scenes are significantly louder than earlier ones (and I mean comparing action scenes with action scenes); again, a directorial choice no doubt.

In "The Matrix Reloaded" the picture quality is maybe slightly better, the audio a touch more forceful (although the actual music is not as good as in "The Matrix". For me, "Revolutions" is on the same BD level as Part II. But on balance, the boxset is a very good HD release at a crazily cheap price, and it does not deserve the false criticism of its supposedly sub BD-level standard.

The films themselves were interesting to see again after what, for me, was quite a long term. The original is magnificent as ever, and I found the second installment much less disappointing than back at the time of release. If you mentally prepare in advance for the wilfully tedious scenes with "The Merovingian" and "The Architect" then you realise that the film is actually a pretty good sequel, and not the disaster it seemed back then. The party scene in Zion is also fairly dull and overlong, but otherwise much better than I remembered. And even if the ending of "Revolutions" is not very satisfying, it remains my second favourite Matrix film, and as Mr Anderson loved to say, perhaps the way it is was "inevitable".

For just over a fiver a disc, you cannot go wrong. These are not upscaled DVDs, they are very good BD transfers. Free your mind!

Langages & subtitles
Note : same audio / subtitles on the 3 blu-ray.

Audio :

English Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 : English, French, Italian
Stereo : Brazilian Portuguese, Latin Spanish

Subtitles :

English, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Italian, Latin Spanish

Pour les francophones / For french dudes :
Ce sont bien les voix "françaises" (pas canadiennes quoi) et au final, en dehors des jaquettes en anglais, ce sont exactement les mêmes blu-ray que ceux vendus en France / Belgique. Aucun soucis sur ma PS3 belge.

A Flawless/Superbly Detailed Image and Excellent Extras for this Classic and Ground-Breaking Sci-Fi Trilogy
[I've added a photo to the item page for each disc showing the back of the Blu-ray box which details the disc specification and content.]

I have written individual Amazon reviews for the Blu-ray disc of each film in the trilogy, please refer to them for in-depth information of each film/disc...

'The Matrix' trilogy of films were written, directed and produced by the Wachowski brothers. Although dating from the 1990s to the early 2000s, they will continue to stand as a benchmark for the use of special-effects in films for many years to come....

They are arguably THE series of films which should be watched first on any new Hi-Definition video format to fully appreciate it and the films; Blu-ray is no exception to this 'rule' and I can confirm that they are simply astounding to watch (and listen to !) in this format.

Each film stands on it's own as a story, but the plot progresses through the 3 films and all need to be watched to get the whole picture and, of course, see the ultimate ending.

This boxset is simply a printed cardboard outer to hold the individual Blu-ray box for each disc of the film (ie they are EXACTLY the same box/discs as what you would get if you bought each individual disc).

The Blu-ray image on these issues is flawless/superbly detailed and the sound quality is an improvement over the DVD format. The extras on the discs are copious, including including a 'Picture-in-Picture' narrative inserted into the film, feature-length commentaries and loads of very interesting 'featurettes'; see the photos I've added to the item page showing the back of the Blu-ray box for each film/disc which details the disc specification and content.

*** A final notable aspect of 'The Matrix' disc is that the film is uncut with no change to the viewing classification; all previous UK versions (including that in the 'Ultimate' DVD boxset) had head-butting scenes from 2 of the main fight sequences removed....

Anyone who either already knows about, or wants to experience for the first time, this ground-breaking trilogy of films really should see them in Blu-ray format - they will blow you away !