Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Polaris_DiB Whereas the rest of the Animatrix shorts attempt an animated realism or an animated surrealism, this one is going full-fledged psychedelic. A resistance group attempts to re-program robots to join their side, basically (as I can understand it) by seducing them in a program of their creation. Somehow this is supposed to tie into choice and discussions of slavery and will, but really it's more like an attempt to see brightly colored naked figures run through phantasmagoric flowing light. It's story would be kind of sad if it wasn't for the fact that it's pretty much nonsensical. I can't even tell if its set during the primary narrative of the Matrix trilogy or if it's set before (the robot designs are different). Instead, just sit back and enjoy the visuals. It's kind of hard not to.--PolarisDiB

teleomorph I'm stunned by the previous review. I thought the CG animations at the end were exquisite. My favorite of the 9 by far (well, 'Beyond' was also beautiful). Sophisticated, breathtaking and very trippy. And all on top really deep concepts:Scientist: "How do they know that the real world isn't just another simulation? How do you?"Alexa: "I know I'm not dreaming now because I know what it's like being in a dream."Scientist: "So dreaming lets you know that reality exists."Alexa: "No - only that my mind exists. I'm not sure about anything else."

TheOtherFool Somehow the Animatrix shorts with the most interesting premises have the worst outcome. Matriculated is the worst of the bunch (although it's a close call with Program), as it takes a great idea (showing the machines the beauty of mankind by plugging them in) and turns it into the worst experience of the 9.As I said, the story begins promising and interesting, but ends with a long, long, long sequence of 'weird' images, a cross between the famous scenes from 2001 and VGA-rain (who can remember it), but not as interesting as neither of them.Too bad as the Animatrix wasn't great to begin with. Add the fact that Revolutions as well as Reloaded were a huge disappointment... who knew it would end this way 5 years ago when we were all in awe of The Matrix... don't you hate sad endings? 3/10.

delenda_77 I disagree with the interpretations I have read so far of this story. Though the facts might have been right I believe in another meaning of the ending. What the author was trying to show was that the machine also had "feelings", these were of love, and lust for the girl. Initially the girl, in order to convert it in the weird Matrix simulation, shows she cares for him, and accepts his advances. However later we have the attack of the machines, and the girl asks for the "converted machine's" help, the machine saves her. It thinks she loves him too, at least in its humanoid matrix form. So it plugs her back. Her reaction of horror and terror when she wakes up in the matrix simulation and sees the machine confuse it. She dies of fear and disgust even.The final scene of the converted robot staring out on the beach is the saddest in the series, the machine was fooled into believing it could be cared for and loved by a human, seen as an equal, but it was only being used, no matter how intelligent (quote from the short "they are only meant to serve"), and it was fooled into believing it could be otherwise. This is essentially the lesson which the machines had learned the hard way, when they initially rebelled against the humans, no matter how hard they tried they were never accepted. Thus the war. This "runner" learned the human capacity for sheer manipulation the hard way.