Product Description

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria FosterDirectors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1644 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Action & Adventure
• Released on: 2009-03-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .26 pounds
• Running time: 137 minutes

Synopsis
Neo seeks the truth about the Matrix. Only one man has the answer, an elusive dangerous man who is known as Morpheus. A stranger called Trinity 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...

Customer Reviews

A decade old, but more visually striking than many new films
While I made a rule for myself not to go back and repurchase films I already had in my collection, I only had the matrix on VHS which is virtually redundant now, and a bit of an eye strain to watch on an HDTV, so I ordered this classic film in its latest visual incarnation. I had this preconceived notion that only recently released new films would show the real quality of Bluray. But I was wrong, and glad to be proven wrong, this movie from ten years ago looks every bit as good as a modern action film, if not better than most.

The movie is full of dark scenes which traditionally may have just limited how much detail was visible but with this version all the blacks are well defined, all their black outfits show their layers and woven structure excellently. All other colours look great too, particular good scenes include the agent training program where the colour and definition are so well pronounced, and any moment with a mirror or shiny sunglasses looks fantastically detailed, so much so that a finger print mark would be clearly visible. While most of the film has various colour filters applied it still looks completely blended and natural and not as if the colour filtering was a CG after-touch.

Facial textures are completely crisp, All the facial pores are visible, depending on your sharpness setting, it feels like a truly high definition experience to really see the pits in morpheus' face. Although it's a small thing, I really liked how dust looks in this high definition version. Picture grain is generally minimal with the exception of the plain white construct scenes. There is no blurriness in image anywhere and no jagged motion or artefacts.

The Sound quality is good, all the sound effects sound crisp and have good directional detail through a surround sound system. All the gun sounds are great, the green matrixy style opening is a very exciting sound test intro, and all the dialogue is clear to hear, and not drowned out by background noises.

A great film revived for the latest media capability, the high standards of filming and production used a decade ago seems to have paid off. Definitely worth getting for your collection but you really should have a good home set up to do it justice.

Awesome quality
This blu ray disc is great... I didn't ordered the complete package because I liked only the first movie.
The quality of the image is awesome and the sound is great.
Buy this blu ray... you won't regret it.

AMAZING!!
Upgrading my old DVDs to Blu-Ray is proving to be an expensive task...however thoroughly worth it for the Matrix and I'd recommend it to anyone also going through this "refresh" of the classics.

The quality totally blew me away - it felt like watching it for the first time all over again. The action scenes were very crisp and I was pleased to find that the special effects still stood up under the blu-ray magnifying glass. Great price too - highly recommend.