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...from different yard lines, flashed on the screen--92% success inside the 10-yard line (the red zone), 98% between the 10 and 20 (orange), 89% between the 20 and 30 (yellow), and 69% between the 30 and 40 (blue). For Jets fans, it looked like the terrorism-alert matrix. Moments later, Stover nailed a 42-yarder from the blue zone (the end zone adds 10 yards to the distance), giving the Ravens a 2017 come-from-behind victory...
...much-of-a-good-thing DVD treatment. Peter Jackson has added 50 "new" minutes to the already capacious 200 of The Return of the King, the final installment of his Lord of the Rings epic (New Line Home Entertainment; $79.92). And a year after The Matrix huffed to its tri-part finale, the Wachowski brothers offer literally dozens of hours of elucidation on a 10-disc DVD set called The Ultimate Matrix Collection (Warner Home Video...
Jackson's trilogy ended on a triumphant note: Return of the King won 11 Oscars and became one of only two films (the other is Titanic) to earn more than $1 billion in theaters. The Matrix, fairly or not, is seen as a terrific film followed by two vagrantly entertaining afterthoughts (Reloaded and Revolutions). The Ultimate Matrix is the Wachowskis' grand play to establish the three films as one fabulous story. They don't pull it off, but there are goodies galore in this package...
...package contains two commentary tracks on the full trilogy: one by "philosophers" Cornel West (who had a small role on the Matrix council) and Ken Wilber, the other by top film critics Todd McCarthy, John Powers and David Thomson, who connects The Matrix to every movie from Cocteau's Orpheus to the Alien quartet. The critics are unanimous in thinking that one Matrix was enough ("If the whole series ends here," Thomson opines at the first film's finale, "you've got nearly a masterpiece") and that some scenes aren't worth remarking on. "Perhaps they'll edit...
...sets are made for the completist, not the critic. Someone, surely, will watch all 14 hours of the documentary extras and, perhaps, the three films on their own, then with the two tracks of commentary, which means another 20 hours. All of which makes The Ultimate Matrix an ideal gift for that obsessive uncle or nephew who has nothing but spare time. (We're guessing that the fanatical rewatching of action-movie trilogies is pretty much a guy thing. A lonely-guy thing...