SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is one of the most popular segments of the Animatrix and this may be due to the fact that several actors from the live action movies do voice acting in here. The protagonist is a boy who seems to feel that something isn't right. Before he gets killed, he manages to get out of the Matrix. There are quite a few parallels here between Neo very early in the first Matrix film and our hero here. Just like the other Animatrix segments, this was written by the Wachowskis and the director here is Shinichirô Watanabe. I do not think the 15 minutes stated here are correct, this was certainly closer, maybe around 9 minutes. I enjoyed watching this one because it actually had a real connection to the live action "Matrix" films unlike most of the others. One of my favorites from the series and I recommend it.

Polaris_DiB This is a bizarre one. The animation, especially of the fall, is intensely surreal though not necessarily to a dream-like effect. It's hard in some places to get one's bearings while viewing the movie, but that's kind of the point and a lot of the character design and movement is purposefully chaotic and fractured.It's been a while since I watched the Matrix sequels, but I'm pretty sure "Popper" is the kid who appears as Neo's little fanboy in the movies. If that's the case, it's neat to see his story, and bizarre to think about how it may have come to place. On the other hand, I can't help but get giggles thinking that some extreme Matrix fans with no sense of reality could use this story as direction and try to jump off of high buildings to escape the virtual world. On a more serious note, I'm glad that hasn't happened, because it's not like we need another reason to blame movies for stupid people's actions.Enough of what isn't. What is is that this animation is a really neat speculation on alternative ways people can come to escape The Matrix, alongside of the other short featured in somewhat of the same style, "The World Record." --PolarisDiB --PolarisDiB

william (willsgb) one of two of the nine Animatrix shorts connected directly to the first movie sequel Reloaded, this explains what the kid pestering Neo in Zion was on about. It reveals his escape from the matrix, which involves him asking questions on his computer and getting a cryptic reply, black screen, green typing, like Neo's white rabbit chat in the Matrix. at school, his phone rings, and his teacher confronts him when he is told off but it rings a second time and he answers.he is warned to escape, which he does, with some interesting slippery animation depicting him skateboarding through his school, chased by his teacher and a whole bunch of agents. he is cornered and climbs out of a window to the roof. the short began with the kid dreaming of a suicidal jump from a rooftop, which the kid performs after asserting his belief in Neo.his funeral is attended by his teacher who talks of delusions and of the real world being a scary place to the kid. then the kid wakes in the real world as Neo and Trinity discuss his self substantiation and Neo tells the kid he saved himself when the kid tells Neo he saved him, something annoyingly repeated in Reloaded and Revolutions.Keanu and Carrie voicing their characters add a welcome authenticity to the short, and the animation by Studio 4°C combines rubbery pencils and colours with seemingly real world, photo-realistic backgrounds, a dualistic reference to the distinction between the real world and the matrix, surely a consciously chosen style of animation for that purpose, if not then an interesting coincidence. Shinichiro Watanabe of cowboy bebop fame directs this worthy effort and matrix enthusiasts should enjoy the escapist fiction and revel in the truth of the kid's story.

katanacow232 I don't know what is is but the whole short was very cool. One of my favorites. Even thought it had had-draw pictures that were all wavy and stuff is was still very fun to watch. Also the sound was too notch when he was falling through the sky and past the railing.