The Matrix Revolutions (15, Warner Home Video, DVD £22.99/VHS £16.99) Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anthony Zerbe
THE final instalment of Andy & Larry Wachowski's sci-fi trilogy is a triumph of hopelessly cliched and incomprehensible mutterings which masquerade as dialogue, interspersed with workmanlike special effects sequences that descend into a blur of computer generated flickering
Released on Friday April 2.
DVD Extras: Revolutions Recalibrated featurette, Cg Revolution featurette, Super Burly Brawl storyboards and behind the scenes footage of the climactic battle between Neo and Agent Smith, Follow The White Rabbit featurette, Neo Realism: The Evolution Of Bullet Time featurette, Super Big Mini Models, featurette, Double Agent Smith featurette, Mind Over Matter: The Physicality Of The Matrix featurette, Future Gamer: The Matrix Online featurette, 3-D Evolution featurette, Before The Evolution choronology of The Matrix series, weblinks, theatrical trailer.
Cypher (15, Pathe Distribution, Sci-Fi/Thriller, also available to buy DVD £17.99/VHS £9.99) Stars: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, David Hewlett
ACCOUNTAT Morgan Sullivan (Northam) becomes embroiled in the high-stakes world of espionage. He attends conferences and records the conversations of rival businesses for his ruthless boss Finster (Bennett). He meets femme fatale Rita (Liu), who claims that Morgan is the victim of a brainwashing conspiracy. He secretly takes drugs which allow him to see through the tissue of lies which masquerade as his reality... or maybe that's just what Rita wants him to see. Writer-director Vicenzo Natali certainly delivers on the promise of his debut feature, the devilish low budget sci-fi horror Cube.
DVD Extras: Director commentary, Making Of featurette, behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews.
Young Adam (18, Warner Home Video, DVD £15.99)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone
JOE Taylor (McGregor) is an aimless drifter who works on a canal barge, owned by Les Gault (Mullan) and his wife Ella (Swinton), with whom Joe is having an illicit affair. En route from Edinburgh to Glasgow, Joe and Les make the grisly discovery of a woman's body floating in the Clyde.
DVD Extras: Director and actor commentary, Making Of Young Adam featurette, cast and crew biographies, Ewan McGregor original passage narration, theatrical trailer.
Published: 25/03/2004
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