First time watching *THE MATRIX* - 1999 - reaction/review

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This is our first time watching "THE MATRIX" starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne. This video is intended to give our own personal review and is edited in such a format to abide by the copyright laws for fair use. I highly suggest you to have seen this movie before watching our review. Thank you!
0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Reaction
33:30 - Review

[@HabitualCinema]

Take it easy on us, guys! We tried our best to understand this movie 😂 Also my apologies for the late upload. Warner Bros really has it out for me. I had to muffle quite a bit of this edit before they would accept it. Hope you all enjoy regardless.

[@newbeginning2045]

Don't worry you beautiful ladies did a great job I'm looking forward to seeing more I will accept any content you upload 🔥🔥❤️I'm sure the people feels the same keep up the good work

[@HabitualCinema]

@@newbeginning2045 Appreciate that!

[@REALAMERICANMAN531]

You did fine... ignore these clowns. Another great upload! 😊

[@arik_dev]

You guys seem nice enough, you made some funny quips, and maybe you didn't notice every last detail in the movie, but neither did I first time watching it. Not sure why people are being jerks about it, but I enjoyed watching your reaction anyway. Cheers

[@HabitualCinema]

@@arik_dev Thanks, unfortunately it comes with the territory. Kinda reminds me of the Star Wars community lol

[@YoureMrLebowski]

7:26 "I feel like this is the same type of speech you get before someone offers you acid." -Ashly 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@boqndimitrov8693]

agent smith - what an iconic villain!hugo weaving really did something special with this role!

[@havok6280]

"Neo" is an anagram of "one".

[@Tux.Penguin]

And room 303 was for Trinity (3) and room 101 was for the One

[@goaway152]

its also the German word for new

[@havok6280]

@@goaway152 incorrect. Neu is German for new...

[@karlbecker8775]

This movie is why I bought a DVD player. Yeah...I'm that old.

[@RustyX2010]

I saw it on VHS since I was too busy working to see it on the big screen.

[@zombiemom7378]

Same! It was the first DVD I ever bought. I actually bought the DVD before I bought the player. Saw it in the theater 11 times and it still tops my list of favorite movies!

[@OUsniper1]

Well, the Oracle didn't actually predict that Morpheus would die. She told Neo that one of them was going to die (Morpheus and Neo). So, towards the end Neo did die (shot to death by agent smith), and was revived as The One. Great reaction, will definitely make sure to see the future ones by you two.

[@HabitualCinema]

Ah good point ! Thanks 🫶🏻

[@morleymobproductionz]

One of them did die, Neo. He had to die, to become the one. The Oracle actually says it. She says it’s like you’re waiting for something, Neo says, what, and she replied with your next life maybe, who knows. Neo is an anagram for one by the way.

[@danielabarca3114]

7:52 "Take the DayQuil" 😂

[@Neo......]

unfortunately no one can be told what the matrix is you have to see it for yourself

[@aarrgghh]

before the second movie was released, they made "the animatrix", a collection of animated short stories based in the matrix universe. don't forget to watch that too.

[@RustyX2010]

And that's it, you don't have to watch the next 3 movies! lol

[@newbeginning2045]

Its amazing lookin at keanu on john wick then lookin back at the matrix im jus WOW he ages phenomenal well

[@gsquat]

"I feel like she's trying to reverse psychology him." Incredible call...

[@shainewhite2781]

This is one of the best, if not, the greatest Sci Fi Action Adventure film ever made! Winner of 4 Oscars: Best Visual Effects Best Film Editing Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing. It blew me away in the theater when I saw this with my older brother and sister! It's 25 years old this year!

[@HabitualCinema]

That must be why it was so hard to pass copyright. It definitely lived up to the hype.

[@jamalsmith5073]

The greatest, nah, T2 would be in the way.

[@jimmyboy131]

@@jamalsmith5073 I would put Blade Runner above it, too.

[@tigerjonn]

Its crazy how this concept has been so overdone now... But when the Matrix came out for the first time and I saw it in the theaters... it was absolutely revolutionary. The idea of a simulation program that is so real, that can replace the real world and that we might already be living in one. It blew peoples minds!

[@the.seagull.35]

The matrix is still the best of all those movies. Even if its been done to death since then, its just an extremely high quality film. Its a top 10 movie for me

[@newbeginning2045]

The scene with the strange centipede Terminator bug use to give me night terrors when I was younger cause when you sleep there could be all types of bugs crawling around you 😂😂

[@HabitualCinema]

😂

[@The1Music2MyEars]

It does have a little Sleeping Beauty similarities at the end, but in reality, Neo could still hear Trinity talk (and even feel her kiss), and because of that, he realized that he was in the matrix and nothing is real (even bullets) and woke himself up.

[@michaelccozens]

That's certainly part of it, but I think it goes a little deeper, too. Notice, for example, that when Neo asks the Oracle if he's "the One", she never actually answers him. Instead, she uses an old mentalist/cold-reading trick of getting him to answer his own question and then presenting his answer as her own ("psychics" do this all the time, which is part of how it can function as therapy for those who "don't do therapy". The South Park episode about John Edwards explains the concept well, as do many episodes of "The Mentalist", which is a very fun crime procedural). If Neo is the One, and can more-or-less create reality within the Matrix as he sees fit, then his belief that he is not the One makes him not the One (this is part of the layer of this movie that's all about identity, and is, in part, explicitly a story about trans identity and discovering your true self despite a society programming you never to do so. Switch was originally specifically a trans character, being a biological male outside the Matrix but her true identity within it, when her mind could digitally express her true sense of self (also why she's the only character dressed in white, instead of black). The studio, however, felt audiences weren't ready for that, and made the Wachowskis leave her as more of an undefined androgynous character. Both Wachowskis, incidentally, transitioned some time after this movie, being trans women, so you can see how this would also be a very personal story for them. One more note on the subject of identity; notice how Agent Smith insists on calling Neo "Mr. Anderson", the identity the Matrix foisted upon him, and how Neo's success against the Agents really began when he insisted on asserting his own identity as his true self ("My name is Neo").) Getting back to Trinity, her faith in Neo's identity as himself and the One supported his own, allowing his resurrection (insert your choice of any number of "messiah" parallels here) and the beginning of the realization of his human potential, which surpassed even that of AI. That was quite a block of text! TL;DR: you can see how many universities created philosophy courses utilizing the Matrix to explore issues like self-awareness ("I think, therefore I am") and identity.

[@the.seagull.35]

​@@michaelccozens That's interesting about the trans parable... hadn't thought of those details before. Only thing I disagree on is the Oracle, she was definitely a real oracle and not just a "mentalist". She knew the vase would fall before it did, and even suggests that she made it happen by saying it. That's a metaphor for what she says to Neo. The Oracle didn't tell him he was the One... instead her words led to him showing himself to be the One. She got Neo to "break the vase".

[@toad5769]

The Animatrix helps to understand the latter Matrix movies more easily.

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

There are multiple layers to the scene where Neo is revived. While the power of love and Trinity's kiss may play a role, there are also deeper thematic and narrative elements at play, including destiny from the prophecy, Neo's self-awareness and mind power, and religious allegory.

[@MikeB12800]

Rewatch the Oracle scene, she pretty much explains everything about him being the one… she (trinity) loves him, like love… no one can tell him he’s the one, he has to know it for himself, the sign “know thyself”, and he might be the One in his next life… he dies at the end.

[@OrlandoAugustoStock]

The Matrix won 4 Oscars.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

28:04 "i'm watching you..." -Jenna spot on impression of Roz.

[@user-vb5tq2kv1q]

Neo is the internet Jesus

[@jamalsmith5073]

Agent Smith saw "What's love got to do it?" and beat the matrix out of Morpheus.

[@krono5el]

think they all trained like a few months of just hong kong kung fu training with a legend wu ping and his team for each of the movies. crazy shit : D

[@LazloHo]

Why does he wear that little hat? You've never been bald :) It's because your head gets cold!

[@omaridanner1254]

Wassup Yall love your videos keep up the good work my friends 😊

[@nick4819]

"That's Hugo Weaving, I recognize his voice." Uhhhhh what about his face? :P

[@HabitualCinema]

I’ve actually never seen anything with him in it, I just know him from interviews and reading celebrity news lol … he has a very distinct voice I feel.

[@Frightspear]

@@HabitualCinema What?? Are you really saying you have never seen LOTR!?? No way. You can not be so ignorant...

[@HabitualCinema]

@@Frightspear No I’ve never watched Lord of the Rings, which also doesn’t make me “ignorant”.

[@imanrich800gaming]

Ima have to start binge watching yall this is good stuff 😂🔥🔥🔥

[@steve8510]

"Parkour" made me snort laugh.

[@2nd3rd1st]

Keanu's mother is English and his dad is Native Hawaiian and Chinese, so he's got a strong mix of genes in him. Mixed people are famously the most attractive on average.

[@MrVvulf]

Keanu looks younger than Carrie-Anne Moss in this movie, but he's 3 years older than she.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

I just subbed, thanks for making these.

[@Whalewraith]

Intresting note that 1stcrooftop scene with Trinity is actually a set from Dark City. A very underated film that has a similar 'what the hell is going on vibe'

[@brad378]

Fun fact : The Wachowski brothers (now the Wachowski sisters) originally wrote the character “Switch” to be transgender. He was male in the real world but female when jacked into the matrix….however the studio scrapped the idea because they felt like people weren’t ready to see that on screen in 1999.

[@axlm.808]

As Lilly Wachowski later said in an interview: "the (corporate) world wasn't ready"

[@SynthApprentice]

"That woman in the red dress? -that was me- I designed her."

[@isaacgarcia771]

That idea for the Trans character makes total sense. Because switching from man to woman, or vice-versa, is just a fantasy that isn't real! (The Wachowskis' are even admitting Transitioning is BS, if that character idea is true)

[@terrylandess6072]

This is very similar to the structure of the Back to the Future series in that the first was a stand alone film which was very successful and was followed up with 2 cleverly crafted films which didn't hurt the first but added to the experience. Sometimes studio greed pays off if the effort is put in. Most of the time we're lucky to get 1 good sequel but 2 is rare.

[@the.seagull.35]

I was just thinking the end of this movie is exactly like Back to the Future. They both end on a huge high note, perfect "sequel bait" even if BTTF wasn't intentional. They both end with the main characters flying into the sky -- straight toward the camera. Something that didn't happen until that very moment. Its amazing how similar they are actually.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

15:02 "why did he put on that little hat?" -Jenna 😆

[@HearBobbyRoar]

"He's very symmetrical" 😂

[@YoureMrLebowski]

5:33 "what the f*ck?" -Jenna

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@sumonjamal1653]

Lawrence Fishburne ('Morpheus') and Hugo Weaving ('Agent Smith') were the pivotal characters in the 'Matrix' trilogy movies. Making a 4th 'Matrix' movie without those characters was why it failed so miserably...

[@LazloHo]

All of the other movies are worth watching. The first three movies are one, long story. It's clear that it was all written at once, and then just filmed in three parts because it was so big. The fourth movie is kind of a reboot, kind of a follow-up. It's kinda obviously not part of the original story, it's clear it wasn't planned from the beginning, but it also benefits from 20 years worth of improvements in writing, graphics and acting talent so it's also really good.

[@bored312]

LOL.... The general consensus on the sequels is that they are all subpar compared to the original. The 4th specifically is considered terrible by most everyone. Improvments in writing, graphics and acting talent? What in the... are you real? Also, the original movie was written as a stand alone script while the 2 sequels that followed were written together a couple years later.

[@johnb2422]

It's definitely clear it was NOT written all at once.

[@ollep9142]

@@bored312 Given the novelty concept you of course make the first movie able to work as a stand alone. Only after it's a hit you get funds to make more movies. (It was the same with Star Wars, and there the synopsis for the first six movies was written before funds became available to make one movie.)

[@bored312]

@@ollep9142 Except in this case we have the Wachowski's doing interviews over decades talking about how it was stand alone. And how 2 and 3 were written as one sequel and divided up. I mean 2 ends with "to be continued." Jesus, the info has been out there for decades. I feel like Im taking crazy pills. I guess this channel brigs in a certain specialty audience.

[@toddjohnson5176]

Neo is a ninja. The styles he fights with.

[@saiga12commander]

You both give genuinel reactions unlike so many of these channels, you both have become my favourite of this genre. Please do more more more.!!!!¡

[@Patriiiiick]

I remember my friends' brother got one of those Nokia phones not long after this came out and it was the coolest shit.

[@toddjohnson5176]

Your channel is phenomenal. I just subscribed. 😎❤️👍🏽

[@oldnewbgaming]

Just found your channel. I enjoyed your reaction to one of My Fav movies. Liked and Subscribed.

[@servantprince]

the lessons are seen on the 2nd watch

I never had noticed that Catherine Mary Stewart have an owl tatoo on her shoulder.

[@2strokinit527]

The oracle said "one of you is going to die", Neo died so she was right.

[@robertott9083]

I camped out for Star Wars episode 1 The Phantom Menace for 3 days. During the day time we'd usually just buy tickets and watch the movies that were showing. I watched The Mummy and The Matrix. I actually watched The Matrix twice because it was so good.

[@Natedogg7719]

Keep going, all of them are fantastic

[@westcoast7429]

all 3

[@js6729]

Fun fact: Keanu Reeves is actually heavily into martial arts in real life and does the vast majority of his own stunts/fight scenes.

[@Josiah-X]

The DayQuil NyQuil reference to the blue pill. Red pill was hilarious. lol Very good comparison. . . But yeah, most importantly, I highly suggest you check out the “Animatrix” before you watch, matrix reloaded and matrix revolutions. The Animatrix is a series of 9 short films, 2 of them explain and answer your questions that you have that will unanswered. They bring better clarity. Also, the anime matrix is cool great animation you’ll love it.👌🏿😎🌴🌙

[@captainofdunedain3993]

I'm gonna keep my thoughts for the next movie

[@imanrich800gaming]

Daddy Morpheus lmaooooo

[@YoureMrLebowski]

17:11 "well, I'm sure she told you more than that." -Ashly with just a slight hint of attitude. 🙂

[@evanreid6917]

Great reaction guys, definitely check out the other movies, and you watch the movies in normal order.

[@anthonybonawitz444]

Definitely watch the second one. It's definitely one of my top three favorite movies of all time.

[@TheMovieClub007]

Great reaction i am hearing rumors Wb is going to make a 5th film

[@InstigatorDJ]

Every time you kill an agent, a human dies. Cant be killed.

[@davidlee4903]

"Look at how he's dressed..." Ah, inexperienced introverts. Whatever scene you are currently attached to has lingo, attire and behavior parallel to what you see as something "definitely 90s". Some appreciate it, some live it.

[@henrytjernlund]

Fun reaction, thanks.

[@jedthementalist5112]

If you're familiar with a classic Sci-Fi show called Farscape, you may recognise this actor 16:08, who played a Peacekeeper prisoner in a single episode... or Stark 24:10, a recurring character from the show. That's where I know these Australian actors from, besides The Matrix.

[@sumonjamal1653]

To answer ur questions: When the A.I. machines went to war w/ the humans, they relied on solar energy... So, the humans scorched the sky to rob them of their source of energy. However, the machines realized that humans could be harvested for the energy they generated through their bodies. As a result, the machines started harvesting humans for their power plants to generate power to survive... Human beings are kept alive in their pods by liquifying the dead bodies w/ biological nutrients and feeding them intravenously to the living. The Matrix was a virtual reality designed to keep the enslaved humans in check by trapping their minds in that reality, living virtual lives while their bodies were trapped in a power plant generating electricity for the A.I. machines... As Agent Smith revealed, human minds rejected the original 'perfect world' Matrix... so, it was redesigned to be acceptable to the human minds that were enslaved within it. The question is... how many times was the Matrix 'redesigned'? Morpheus told Neo that someone born in the Matrix had the power to change anything within it and he freed the willing humans from enslavement and led them to an underground sanctuary city that they named Zion... He was called 'The One' (O-N-E... also spells N-E-O) but he was mortal in the real world and passed away. The Oracle, who was an ally to the humans who escaped the Matrix, prophesied that 'The One' would return... reborn within the Matrix once again. He would bring an end to the war against the A.I. machines and free the human race. Morpheus (and the Oracle) spent years looking for 'The One' and that was revealed to be Neo, born Thomas Anderson in the Matrix. We now know that Neo is 'The One' ... but as the sequels unfold, more revelations about 'The One' and the A.I. machines are coming... Agent Smith and his like are sentient A.I. programs that can move in and out of any person hardwired to the Matrix, which is how they morph into agents when they sense distress or register anything unusual... The machines are not just the 'Squiddies' (or other mechanical contraptions) that hunt humans who are free from the Matrix... they are software programs as well that are produced and operate within and outside the Matrix. There are also A.I. programs that exist within the Matrix that oversee its operations, maintenance and other functions - and they are not agents, who act as the 'gatekeepers' and 'enforcers' within the Matrix. That will be seen in the sequels...

[@HabitualCinema]

Appreciate that! I’m assuming by your wording you didn’t ruin anything from the sequels with this explanation 🤙🏻

[@sumonjamal1653]

@@HabitualCinema Just so u don't get confused watching the sequels.

[@danielabarca3114]

The fact that you know Bo Rai Cho is . . . is Awesome

[@HabitualCinema]

✊

[@eliteteamkiller319]

You ever going to do the other ones?

[@HabitualCinema]

@@eliteteamkiller319 yes we will do the sequels

[@rellek64]

May I suggest Soylent Green released in 1973 starring Charlton Heston

[@beannathrach2417]

The movie is intentional confusing in the beginning. It's almost in medias res. When I saw it, I thought hovercraft meant hover on water like hydrofoils. It means hover in air, flying. The Machines are said to get their power from human metabolism. Where they get the food is a paradox. If you get serious of instead of just accept the rules of the movie fantasy, it violates thermodynamics. There's also The Animatrix which tells how the war between humans and Machines started, and the origins of the Matrix. Also a few comic books. I like Hugo Weaving as Tick in Priscilla. It's a wonderfully different role for Terence Stamp. Matrix 2 and 3 are a duology. They are overall similar to this movie; they continue what happens after Neo flies off the screen; it also talks more about the themes of the movie. Matrix 4 came out years later. It is controversial. I like it but I'm strange. Remember most of the time the characters have duality: their physical body in jelly pod or the interface chair and their avatars in the machine generated Matrix fed fake perceptions through their neck jack. And sometimes their bodies in the Real World getting perceptions through their hunan senses.

[@MightyKK006]

Whats with the black-eye? Thought it was a weird shadow, but its on one eye only.

[@HabitualCinema]

It’s just shadows. One of our lights was prob brighter than the other.

[@jen_lynn]

In all fairness .. I do get really bad dark circles under my eyes 😅 but in this case I think it is a shadow from my bangs or the light angle.

[@CanadaDan]

Hope to see you react to more movies and more popular, like this one or the John Wick, with Keanu too, or several with Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, etc, etc

[@deraltevomwanderndenberge6291]

Humans are NOT a disease.

[@fredkrissman6527]

Ashly grokked the events of this film pretty quickly! New subber

[@davidelmquist8670]

On to the sequels!

[@Big_Mk]

Jajajaj esto para mi dejavu

[@YoureMrLebowski]

if you watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy i would watch you watch.

[@Big_Mk]

Veis cine? O Netflix?

[@andrewmackenna568]

An idea packed, often brilliant, often inexplicable trilogy (YT channel 'Cracked' has a breakdown). But do not waste time with the fourth Resurrections. Channel 'Lextorias' has a very sound hypothesis; Lana W. agreed to direct, but mainly to scuttle Warner Bros. plot to exploit the trilogy for more films - possibly a bomb; on purpose. - Andrew Mackenna, Christchurch, NZ

[@MarkFaust]

Your friend needs to play Texas hold em'. Her face shows very little emotion. She'd win a TON of money.

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Y’all should watch the Animatrix next

[@LazloHo]

Or, y'know, just the next movie?

[@axlm.808]

@@LazloHoAnimatrix adds some background and some segments are literally links between the first and second movie (Final flight of the Osiris and Kid's story) It's not mandatory, but it's better to watch them to have a full comprehension of the lore

[@irvplotnik89]

@@LazloHo not all cartoons are kiddy stuff

[@Big_Mk]

Perdonar es sin querer. Pero yo creo. Lo siento.

[@Cassiel75]

Mr. Anderson is the staple VISA card name

[@howardmann8689]

That's NyQuil...hilarious

[@illrated]

Vader in the background? You have my attention.

[@1s23d]

I think the second movie is the best

[@ElTamarindo-jp2je]

The chick in the right is the smart one lol

[@lovelygrey]

This one and the second one are great. The others not so much.

[@JmLgyo]

You guys should checkout torque.

[@SG-js2qn]

This was filmed right around the time that CGI started to get good. Within a few years of this, we start to get the popular superhero movies, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter, because it's finally possible to put such things on the big screen without the FX being laughable.

[@Big_Mk]

Sólo un poco de empatía ❤

[@thehomie1461]

Please do Blood in Blood out … love the content ladies ❤

[@atg8122]

Every one like this so they can watch The Warriors ❤❤

[@Big_Mk]

Ah los dioses son the one... Regi...

[@geripepu]

Do you have to pause it every 3 seconds?....Just saying. Enjoeyed it so far.

[@HabitualCinema]

It’s never paused, it’s just edited to avoid copyright otherwise it’ll be blocked by KZbin.

[@blurften]

Excellent film, shame they never made any sequels😊

[@Big_Mk]

Mucho cine no habéis visto?

[@YoureMrLebowski]

2:41 that's a little freaky, no? 1:54 Alice in Wonderland reference.

[@HabitualCinema]

In all fairness, I quote Alice in wonderland quite often.

[@camxdidxthat]

0:52 Scary movie 1 & 2 would be great movies to review

[@imanrich800gaming]

You made an Alice the wonderland Reference...5 minutes ago...you see...proof your In the Matrix And its Real!!!!

[@Rudy4099]

@12:20ish.... "I'm gonna learn jiu-jitsu?" Holy Shit! I'm gonna learn software programming! Holy shit... I'm a porn star! =X-D And I know kung fu.... and welding... and truffle hunting

[@HabitualCinema]

😂

[@christopherdavis8248]

you guys are too chill. you guys should smoke weed or drink WHILE watching movies!!!

[@Big_Mk]

Los siento Pero ver esto....