Nice animation, but so much more could have been done with this.

I remember going to see Dreamcatcher (ughh) in theaters because this was playing before the movie. It's not especially deep or innovative and the animation has aged quickly (as all attempted photorealistic animation does), but it has some cool action and feels more like The Matrix and its sequels than any of the other Animatrix shorts, for better or worse. It also has a lingerie-clad samurai sword chick, for those of you who get off on that kind of thing.

Wonderful piece of animation, one of the best

A pretty decent Matrix short. Better than the last two movies, which were shit. The Matrix might have been worth seeing if it were an anime like this.

Nice CGI, especially on the two main characters. I love the opening scene, but after that it's not that interesting.

Decent animation, but not much else holding it together.

Looked pretty, but the story is not big deal.

Some fanservice and action scene. Was it supposed to be "cool"?

The final short of The Animatrix is also the absolute worst of the bunch. How long did it take the writers to come up with something this simple and generic? 5 minutes? 30 seconds? I'm serious. There is zero imagination here, zero thought; just a grunt having to pump out a short against a deadline, and coming with the first bit of garbage that comes to mind. An absolute waste; the "erotic sparring session" is unnecessary and boring, but it's the only ATTEMPT at anything fun/creative throughout.

Want to watch what was wrong with the Matrix sequels but not invest four hours?

Yes the CGI is very dated by now, but One, that opening scene is HOT and Two, it's still a lot better than the either of the sequels.

Neat animation, but that's about it.

The opening sequence looks like a masturbation fantasy for all the adolescents (chronological, and otherwise, if you know what I mean) who are raving Matrix fans. I thought that if you die in The Matrix, you die IRL, too... so it makes no sense to fuck around with swords like that. Whatever. At any rate, I am tired of the Matrix mythos even though I've left it alone since I saw the last movie when it was new 7 years ago. I wanted something more interesting than more chases and more gunfights

A waste of CG processing power.

Funny that this short from Animatrix is better than the last two Matrix movies.

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It looks great.

beautiful animation, the beginning sequence is remarkably acurate in both movement AND detail, but after that the plot takes off too fast and too little time is taken for the rest of the short. Nice special effects, voice-casting and animation though

It looks nice but I wouldn't be able to honestly say I thought it was essential viewing or offered anything important to a viewer's knowledge of The Matrix universe.

Ooh, sexy. Just not really.

Its pretty but who cares? Its so DULLLLL. Thank god its short (but even running at almost 10 minutes might be to long).

It looks fantastic, but that's all you can say about it.

Did the Animatrix really need to be broken up into all ten(?) segments?