Armitage: Dual Matrix
Ghost in the
Matrix
by Isaac
November 5, 2004
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Every once in a
while, we are graced with fantastic cinema, filled with deep,
meaningful plot, and amazing eye candy that captivates us to watch it
over and over again. However, most of the time we are left with low
quality flicks such as Armitage: Dual-Matrix. Overflowing with excess
one-liners, annoying, overplayed cliches, and blatant copying of other
movies, Armitage: Dual-Matrix fails to even be mediocre.
Welcome to the future, humans have expanded existence beyond earth onto
mars, and humanoid robots walk the planet aiding in tasks as
subservient labor to the humans. All is not peaceful though; tensions
between different political factions concerning the rights of robots
have risen up. Extremists from both sides of the factions are causing
trouble for everyone. Military corruption, government conspiracy, and a
secret project that nobody wants to hear about - sure sounds a lot like
Ghost in the Shell to me. In fact, the majority of ideas were blatantly
taken from Ghost in the Shell, and dumbed down so that now even
mentioning such ideas is completely useless. Armitage doesn't stop
there; the action sequences reek of the style of The Matrix, even
including a part with a bastardized version of The Matrix's "bullet
time."
Armitage could have taken these older ideas, and spun them together
into an original style and new point of view on the subjects, and have
been a decent film. The truth of the matter is that nothing that
resembles original thought went into this movie. The plot itself is
rehashed cliche, that any filmgoer has seen countless numbers of times.
Military corruption, a daughter hostage, and even a badly animated car
chase (that was not even that exciting) make up a small portion of
things seen in so many other movies.
In addition to a bad plot, a constant flow of stupid and usually
irritating one-liners, as well as horrendously placed literary
references, destroy any remaining credibility the movie may have had.
It's not much of a deal if there are only one or two, but Armitage goes
overboard throwing at least a couple dozen at you before the first hour
of the movie is complete. Pointless lines like: "This date's over;
you're not my type!" pop out of nowhere before Armitage destroys
another robot.
As if the mass of awful one-liners wasn't enough, Armitage manages to
cram in completely random literary references that have no relationship
to or point in being in this movie at all. References to The Bible, and
The Wizard of Oz, are not only distractingly out of place in this
movie, but appear within a few minutes of each other. Trying to make up
for a lack of style and originality by such means, as demonstrated by
Armitage, is an excellent exercise in futility.
If you're looking for a good movie to watch as a brainless zombie, then
by all means find Armitage: Dual-Matrix, It's the movie for you!
However, if you actually have a half decent taste in movies, make sure
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| Director: |
Katsuhito Akiyama
Makoto Bessho
Takuya Nonaka
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| Genre:
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Action/Sci-Fi
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Movie
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| Released:
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6/25/2002
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| Production: |
AIC
Pioneer LDC
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| Also known as: |
Armitage III: Dual-Matrix
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| Links: |
| ANN
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