Watched the first “Matrix” in FullHD on a 42-inch TV. For the second time. It didn't make much of an impression.
But I did catch a few things.
First, the whole movie has a green tint, matching the mysterious hieroglyphs crawling across the ship operator's monitors. Moreover, a lot of other stuff is shot in a way that resembles these hieroglyphs – the rain in the car, various grids, drops from the fire sprinkler system, etc.
Also. The characters' motivations and their logic belong in the first grade. I'm not talking about getting electricity from humans (that idiocy has been chewed over a million times), but there's plenty of other stuff. For example, Smith philosophizes about how humans – are like a virus devouring the planet. Then for some reason he says plague, and then “cancer”. First of all, the plague is caused by bacteria, and cancer by a malfunction of your own cells. Of course, you could say that plague – is a word with multiple meanings, or that he used all three medical terms to amplify the impression, but the problem remains anyway. This is, first of all, a very old analogy, and secondly, a very stretched and boring one. True, you can always say that Agent Smith – is just a dumb security program, or that he's spouting nonsense on purpose to confuse Morpheus.
Or take the scene where Morpheus and Trinity see that Neo was killed by Smith in the matrix. But sentinels are swarming around – sawing the ship with lasers. Any army in the world would have instantly unplugged Neo, since he's dead anyway, and fired the EMP to survive. But these guys just sit there taking their time, stroking the corpse. Idiots, in a word. And they express themselves in stupid pompous cliches.
Generally, of course, I'm just wasting my time reviewing an old fairy tale made for spectacle, but for some reason even the visual effects somehow failed to impress. Pretty, but too predictable – all these slow-motions, close-ups, and bullet time. Maybe before the matrix they didn't use this stuff very often, but now it looks boring and banal, and not at all like a genre-defining revelation. I guess all classics turn out this way – because copycats turn a technique into a cliche.