The Ulimate Matrix Collection 1999-2003 / Warner Brothers / Rated R /

 Blu Ray Release Date October 14th 2008

Starring In

Keanu Reeves , Laurence Fishburne , Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving
Full Cast and Credits from - The Matrix (IMDB) , Full Cast and Credits - The Matrix Reloaded (IMDB) 
Full Cast and Credits - The Matrix Revolutions (IMDB) , Full Cast and Credits - The Animatrix (IMDB) 

Wow is all I can say about this box set. Warner Brothers did a nice job with this. A real treat to see in 1080p.
And the sound is amazing. If your looking to show off your tv and stereo system. This is the box set to do it with.
This blu ray box set is packed full of extra features. And it even includes a digital copy of the first Matrix movie.
I strongly suggest that you add The Ultimate Matrix Collection to your blu ray collection. You'll be glad you did.

These Films Are Rated

Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language. 

Running Time

The Matrix 138 Mins.
Matrix Reloaded 138 Mins.
Matrix Revolutions 129 Mins
Animatrix 100 Mins
The Matrix - Digital Copy 138 Minutes

How does it look and sound?

The Video : This blu ray set of The Matrix is presented in Video Codec: VC-1, Video Resolution : 1080p
and the movies look great. The video is crisp and clean. The special effects and stunts look terrific. The Animatrix looks
wonderful with the high def upgrade. Colors and striking check out The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2 you'll see what I mean.

The Audio :  The Ultimate Matrix Collection has got an excellent surround sound track. It is recorded in English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz/16-Bit) and English: Dolby Digital 5.1. The vocals are very clear. The front and rear speakers come alive during car chase scenes and gun fire with the musical score as well. And you get alot of nice bass coming from the sub woofer. Be sure to turn this up loud. 

The Features

 Aspect ratio: 2.40:1 

 True Dolbyhd 5.1 English,

5.1 Dolby Digital English, 5.1 Dolby Digital French,
5.1 Dolby Digital Italian, 2.0 Dolby Digital  Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Portuguese
Subtitles :  English SDH, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch & Portuguese 
Number of discs 4 blu ray discs, 3 DVD Discs
50 gig. Blu Ray Discs

Bonus Features

The Matrix Disc One

-Audio Commentaries - Featuring effects artists Zach Staenberg and John Gaeta,
actress Carrie Anne Moss, and a music only track featuring composer Don Davis.
-"The Matrix Revisited" - An in-depth two hour documentary on the making of the original film.
This was also included on the original DVD release of The Matrix .
-"Take the Red Pill"
-"Follow the White Rabbit"- Both of these features were early examples of DVD interactivity that are included for posterity.

Matrix Reloaded  Disc Two

-"Enter the Matrix" - A 42 minute documentary focused on a video game version of the film. -"Car Chase" -
This is a 55 minute feature on the filming of the legendary freeway chase from the movie.
-"Unplugged" - An in depth documentary on the various special effects and fight choreography used in the film.
-"Teahouse Fight" - More behind the scenes fight choreography...
-"I'll Handle Them" - And yet more fight and special effects info is presented here.
-Archive: "Exiles" - You guessed it! More behind the scenes features on secondary characters! 

Matrix Revolutions Disc Three

"Behind the Matrix" -Believe it or not, here is yet another behind the scenes featurette - -
 this time focusing on the the third film in the series.
-"Siege" - An in-depth review of the processes behind the large-scale machine attack.
-"Aftermath" - A 40 minute post production featurette...
-"Crew" - The titles says it all.
-"Hel" - a 28 minute documentary on the goth club scene.
- "Super Burly Brawl" - More behind the scenes fight info!
-Archive: "New Blue World" - A pretty succinct (for this set, anyway) wrap up.

The Animatrix Disc Four

Here's what's included: "Final Flight of the Osiris"
"The Second Renaissance Part 1"
"The Second Renaissance Part 2."
"Kid's Story"
"Program,"
"World Record,"
"Beyond,"
"Detective Story,"
"Matriculated,"

Also included with The Animatrix are a good number of extra features including several scene specific commentaries,
the outstanding "Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime" featurette and the "Execution" behind the scenes documentary.
 

The Matrix Experience 2 Disc Databank

Disc One

"Return to Source: Philosophy & The Matrix" - An hour long documentary featuring opinion and commentary on the philosophy of
The Matrix from scholars and philosophers. We are now entering the overkill zone.
- "The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction" -
This is very much a full-fledged documentary on the pitfalls of man's eventual and current reliance on technology.

Disc Two

"The Burly Man Chronicles" -
This extensive extra is a feature length documentary on the entire production process on
Reloaded and Revolutions. If the previous thirty hours of extras didn't get it done for you, let's hope this feature does.
-"Zion Archive" -
Welcome to the gallery feature of this endless set. There are, literally, thousands of images here for your viewing pleasure.
-"Rave Reel" - As though anyone was requesting more dancing and boogie time from these films

The Story Of The Films

The Matrix movies is movies about man vs machine. The machines have taken over the planet.
And now the human race is in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth. Only one man
can save the human race. Or die trying to save it. The Matrix movies teaches us that nothing is
impossible. And you will ask what is the matrix?

 

Movie Trailers from The Matrix Movies

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Movie Stills From The Matrix

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Movie Stills From The Matrix Reloaded

     

  

Movie Stills From The Matrix Revolutions

     

  

Movie Quotes From The Matrix Movies

Quotes From The Matrix

Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

Morpheus: We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. 

Agent Smith: You're empty.
Neo: So are you. 

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure. 

Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Movie Quotes Form The Matrix Reloaded

Agent Thompson: You.
Agent Smith: Yes, me

Twin #1: We are getting aggravated.
Twin #2: Yes, we are. 

Morpheus: Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here, before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No, I stand here without fear because I remember. I remember that I am here not because of the path that lies before me but because of the path that lies behind me. I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here! Today, let us send a message to that army. TOnight, let us shake this cave. Tonight, let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone, let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember, THIS IS ZION AND WE ARE NOT AFRAID! 

The Keymaker: We do only what we're meant to do.
Agent Johnson: Then you are meant for one more thing: deletion.

Agent Smith: I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die... with a certain satisfaction, I might add. Then something happened. something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. After that, I understood the rules, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system. Because of you, I've changed. I'm unplugged. A new man, so to speak. Like you, apparently, free.
Neo: Congratulations.
Agent Smith: Thank you. 

Movie Quotes From The Matrix Revolutions 

Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson. Welcome back, we missed you.

Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

Roland: This is asinine. If you want to kill yourself, go ahead, but do it without wasting one of our ships.
Neo: You have to believe me. I have to go.
Roland: Bullshit. I'm captain of this ship, *I'll* say where it has to go. And believe me, this ship will go to hell long before I let you take it anywhere!
Niobe: He can have mine.
Roland: Niobe! You can't do that!
Niobe: Don't you even begin to tell me what I can and can't do with my ship after that little speech. 

Neo: Who are you?
Bane: Still don't recognize me? I admit it is difficult to even think encased in this rotting piece of meat. The stink of it filling every breath, a suffocating cloud you can't escape. Disgusting. How pathetically fragile it is. Nothing this weak is meant to survive. 

Movie Quotes From The Animatrix

The Instructor: In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise. 

Machine: Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it.

Ash: What just happened?
Trinity: Mr. Ash, dream of having an eye exam lately?
Ash: Yeah, how'd you know?
Trinity: You've just stepped to the edge of the looking glass. 

To Learn More About The Matrix Follow These Links

The Matrix Official Web Site

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Where To Buy The Soundtracks

From Amazon.com Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - The Matrix  , Original Motion Picture Score - The Matrix

 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Score - The Matrix Reloaded , Original Motion Picture Score - The Matrix Revolutions

Final Thoughts

This is a must for any blu ray collection. If your looking for a good blu ray action this is it. You get excellent video and awsome audio. And packed full of extra features. Plus a digital copy of the first Matrix movie. You can't go wrong there. Below is how I rate this movie. On the scale of 1 - 5 stars 5 being the highest.

Video       *****      Stars

Audio       *****      Stars

Movies     *****      Stars

Features   *****      Stars

Updated On Thursday, July 01, 2010 04:02 PM