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Armitage: Dual-Matrix
Ghost in the Matrix 
Studio: AIC, Pioneer LDC Format: 1 Movie Released: 3/22/2002 Written by: Aisakku 
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 to steer clear of this one. * (Horrible) Posted: November 5, 2004
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