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...relish their pairing, sharply choreographed and luxuriantly filmed in a suffusion of yellow light. It’s harder to understand what impelled Chelsom to edit the dance by periodically slowing motion to a crawl—a technique better suited for action sequences in films like The Matrix. Whenever it speeds up again Lopez’s neck whips across the screen, evoking back pain as much as passion...
This delirious send-up of the international save-the-world action genre spoofs every movie from the Star Wars trilogy to Knightrider to The Matrix and unsympathetically mocks every public figure from Michael Moore to Kim Jong-Il to, curiously enough, Matt Damon. And they do it with puppets...
Perhaps the kindest compliment that can be paid to the film is that it is a low-budget combination of Office Space, with its portrayal of bitter, down-on-their-luck workers and token Indian engineer, and The Matrix, with its obtuse scientific jargon, pseudo-philosophical questions and green-tinted lensing. Problematically, the film lacks the wit or visual appeal of either film...
...that can be inscribed by it, as we see in Warhol’s “JFK Close Up in black” from his 1968 portfolio, FLASH. Here the subject is reflection upon the pixilation of the image itself, in all its power and ubiquity, the dot matrix print of a last televised smile is blown up to a size which sets it in a new focus–the previous image is lost, the idea of the smile is atomized by the reformulation of the image in oversized print, the dot matrix fragmentation of the last iconic...
Then she found The River—the youth church group advertised in The Crimson that purports to give converts the same Matrix-style life change as the legendary red pill Keanu Reeves swallows in the movie...