Hopefully it'll achieve the kind of success they got with the first "Matrix" and not the fate of the abysmal "Speed Racer." (PS I saw the film at its world premiere at TIFF. Details 19 people responded Event by Claude Moore Recreation & Community Center Claude Moore Recreation & Community Center Duration: 4 hr Public Anyone on or off Facebook Join the staff of Claude Moore Recreation & Community Center and Claude Moore Park for our first annual SPOOKTACULAR event. But there's no denying this is a big, expensive gamble on the part of the Wachowskis and their producers. Some might find the finale a bit conventional, sappy or anti-climactic. Like a good roller-coaster, it has its lulls and rushes. It's 6 movies for the price of one! Just be ready to spend almost 3 hours in your seat and suffer a bit of whiplash as the transitions can get frenetic at times, with multiple cliff-hangers happening simultaneously. There's a smörgåsbord of material here for most people: human drama, mystery, violence, sex, adventure, farcical comedy, gloomy sci-fi and occasional romance (both gay and straight). The make-up in some cases created a distraction (a Korean woman transformed into a red-haired Caucasian Hugo Weaving as a buxom female nurse) but it adds a bit of fun to the experience. The cinematography, set & art design, music score and performances range from good to great. ![]() Frankly, it's a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination for Best Editing - it works very well considering the challenge of making it flow coherently. The "nested" narrative of the book has been re-arranged for the sake of the visual medium of film, and after first being introduced to the 6 worlds, it's not that hard to keep track of who's who, what's what and where & when. Imagine taking six short (but big-budget) films with different stories and directors and combining them into an anthology feature, united by a common theme and cast of actors in different roles, and then editing the entire thing out of sequence. In my opinion it mostly succeeds, but finding a large mainstream audience is its biggest challenge to be met (at this point, before wide release). This movie is a fusion of several genres (drama, adventure, sci-fi, comedy, romantic tragedy) as well as an attempt for an art-house cerebral movie to attain commercial blockbuster status.
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