The animation was kinda cute, but the story was not that interesting. There's better on the Animatrix dvd.

Generic samurai anime fused with Cypher's subplot from the first Matrix movie. Some decent bladed weapon fighting, but overall it's not that memorable and blazes no thematic ground not covered in the original film.

The Animatrix was quite crappy overall, and this short is a good example why. Yoshiaki Kawajiri is one of the greatest geniuses to work in animation, with Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, Highlander: Vengeance, part of Memories, and A Wind Named Amnesia to his credit...but Program just sucks. The fight is lousy, with predictable, tired choreography, and the words exchanged between hero and villain as trite and yawn-inducing as they come. A real waste of time.

Nonsense.

This is made by professionals with the blessing of The Dishwasher Brothers themselves, but it feels like more fanwank

Nothing too special here.

16 Eylul 07 - Animatrix

It had a great swordfight, and the animation was awesome. Pretty dull otherwise, man the Animatrix sucked. Why did I watch this?

Pretty dull, and the end sucks.

animation, cool. everything else was a little embarrassing.

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

Well the animation was good but I found the fight to be too over the top to be really enjoyable. I know that sounds strange considering it's about The Matrix but I think that's one of the things I didn't like about The Matrix sequels, it was just too over the top in its action sequences for its own good.

The animation was kinda cute, but the story was not that interesting. There's better on the Animatrix dvd.