A collection of nine animated features relating to the Matrix series of movies.
Japanese anime is not my thing, could never get into it.
Saw the second part of the short called “The Second Renaissance” on television once and wished to know what this whole Animatrix thing was about. So I bought this.
It is for the Matrix fans. Whilst I enjoyed the original films, and indeed have them, the only shorts in this I could watch were the two “Second Renaissance” films and “Beyond.”
It is the present and an exploration team travel to the Antartic to examine what they believe is the first ever pyramid, buried deep in the ice. But they are in for a few surprises when they get there.
A film that manages to be a sequel and a prequel all at once. A sequel to the Predator films and a sequel to the Alien series.
It’s OK, not much to write home about. Without giving too much away, it sort of ties together the universes of both series of films, revealing the relationship between both alien races.
Not one I would watch very often.
Two hundred years after Ripley killed herself in the last Alien film, a group of military scientists create a clone of her in an effort to obtain some alien specimens. But things don’t go according to plan.
After the disappointment that was the last film, this is a marked improvement, with faster action, and some great special effects. One of my favorites is the scene with an alien swimming underwater.
The special edition of the movie also has an alternative starting sequence and ending. aparantly, the film scene in the cinema was the directors cut.
Theescape pod seen at the end of Aliens crash lands on an isolated prison planet, and Ripley is the only survivor, the only human survivor that is.
In a word, Alien 3 was boring, not completely boring though, it had it’s short periods of suspence, seperated by long periods of slowness.
Our heroine Ripley has been in cryo-sleep for 57 years and the planet she fought aliens in the last film is now being colinzed. But contact with the colonists has been lost.
There is an expectation when it comes to sequels that the second one is never as good as the first. Not the case with Aliens. It is just as good as the first. Better looking technology, more guns, and more importantly, more aliens.
This is the second of the Alien Quatrilogy box set, and the second of five Alien related films which are in my collection.
It is not one I would watch often being so long, although when I do it would be the 2 hours and 37 minutes directors cut I would go for.
