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Title: disheartening...
Review: further proof that at the heart of the Matrix is... little more than that revealed in the first film. The sequel and this animation shift emphasis from the notion that "reality is a dream" and emphasizes a by-now hackneyed "man versus machine" formula. Is this the world of the Matrix, or a preview of Terminator 3? The background "Second Renaissance" is third-tier Asimov at best, and Last Flight of the Osiris is not more successful at accomplishing anything than Final Fantasy. As for the others -- come on... Are a series of "Tone Poems" already the only things they could cobble together with such a rich concept?All in all, I suspect the Animatrix is the shape of things to come for the Matrix... but fortunately, we'll only have to go back there one more time...
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