Similiar movies to the Matrix

[consciousness]

Can anybody name some please ?

I can think of Dark City and Equilibrium.

thanks

[cathar]

eXistenZ by David Cronenberg
Open Your Eyes in spainish & the remake in English "Vanilla Sky"
The 13th Floor

[samir malik]

Watched 'Wanted' again today after reading the comicbook recently... great movie that is quite matrix-esque... this review from imdb sums it up quite well...

I am a huge fan of Mark Millar's Wanted. And so, when I entered the theater with a friend on an advance screening pass (comic book store owners are very nice people to befriend), fear gripped me. It HAS to suck...right? It's Hollywood...and a "loose" adaptation...

And so, once the credits rolled, and I was one of the many people laughing and clapping, the fear had long passed.

The films works. It provides the amazing opiate of style and dark humor, and in such massive quantities that both evoke the spirit of the source material and utterly ignore the latter 90% of the graphic novel. But that independent streak works for Wanted. You feel a sense of amused wonder and curiosity throughout, and all the plot twists that follow are different enough from the source to actually hold your attention without ever being prematurely obvious.

James McAvoy does an excellent job, and his wry, sarcastic narration sets the mood of the film perfectly. His evolution from pansy to Neo has a genuine and pleasantly arrogant feel to it, although the stereotypical Rocky-esquire training montage is used to speed things up a bit (what a tiresome tool). Basically, his version of a cinematic Neo is both smarter, more entertaining, and more intelligent.

Backing him up, more with sexy looks and an "I'm too cool for you; you're not Brad" attitude than anything, is Angelina Jolie. Her character screams Trinity. And loudly. Regardless, watching her on-screen is a pleasure. She's terribly likable, and extremely lethal throughout.

Morgan Freeman's Morpheus, called Sloan here, is played well, although the role is a bit beneath his skill as an actor. He makes it work though, playing the wizened and mature helper very well. More importantly, he delivers an excellent (and unexpected) line that rivals Samuel L. Jackson's memorable expression from Snakes on a Plane. That alone makes any price of admission worthwhile.

Any other character serves as nothing more than white noise, there to populate the world rather than intrigue.

The theme of Wanted is all about taking charge of your life and making your own choices, something that the very premise of the first hour of the film both adheres to and contradicts. Rather than analyze it here (and waste time arguing the pleasantly mad logic of a movie where bullets bend stylishly), I'll leave that to the people who inevitably will, assuming the bullet-fu and gore don't completely captivate them (and they should). Wanted IS violent, truly, and yet it doesn't strive to turn every frame into a gory, action-packed orgasm. The film handles it with grace and a style I sorely wish more action movies took into consideration.

As bullets curve, heads get punctured, hilarity ensues, and rats explode (peanut butter rocks, BTW), you'll smile besides yourself.

This really isn't a superhero comic adaptation...it's The Matrix with a great sense of humor.

Enjoy it...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/

[camreeno]

The Thirteenth Floor is all I can think of. The movies are so similar you'd think one ripped off the other.

[mike73]

John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness' is sort of similar.
Its very Lovecraftian and weird (as most of his films are) and the similarity
is that the world is in the imagination of one writer (at one point the writer asks our hero what his favourite colour is, blue, and the next day the world is primarily blue, like i say a weird movie

[mike73]

an animated film from 1969 'The Phantom Toll Booth' is very interesting and not just for children.
Other Dystopian films 'Fahrenheit 451' where books are banned

'Last Night' where the world is ending from some unknown source
and is story of what a few people get up to on their...last night

'Event Horizon' starring Laurence Fishbourne strangely, is a scary sci-fi movie about
a spaceship that travels to another dimension and returns alive and
very evil.