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...mindful, of course, that he is not the ideal audience for this movie, being middle-aged and splenetic in nature. It is really meant for much younger guys, equally drawn to kung fu combat and nerdy intellectual musings on the nature of good and evil. On the other hand, he rather liked the first movie in what will soon be The Matrix trilogy. There was something light and dancing about it--especially in the chop-socky fights dizzily enhanced by wire work. Witness chugged off to the new screening with a high and hopeful heart...
Depends. The rating is mostly for the violence. "If you have kung-fu fights with kicks to the head," explains Joel Silver, the trilogy's producer, "it automatically makes it R." The Zionists engage in a muddy but sedate orgy, intercut with a love scene between Trinity and Neo, the redeemer. Christian subtext, anyone...
...fellow-mutant nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) and the morph-o-matic Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) but also a figure familiar from a quillion adventure movies--the steely sicko military renegade. Stryker (Brian Cox) is an ex-Army conniver who would use X powers to evil ends and has a kung-fu cutie named Oyama (Kelly Hu) to kick start any fight. Stryker must contend with a late recruit to the coalition of the thrilling: Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), whose powers include walking through walls, vanishing in a plume of fume and reciting the 23rd Psalm in a German accent...
...Sometimes I thought that the smartest person at Harvard was living in my room,” recalls Lawless, “And it wasn’t me.” Still, she says that roommate, Caroline Kung ’00, was a major source of support during those difficult years. The two remain friends, though Kung now lives in Hong Kong...
...time for me to be getting to the point where I’m as happy making art here as I was in high school. Because it’s Harvard, it feels like it should be a place of destiny, like we’re all in a Kung Fu movie and it’s the last fight. That makes it really scary, but I’m scared most of the time when I make...