Not a knock, just a new observation

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2002)

I just rented the movie Blade last night, and I can't believe how incredibly similar many aspects, effects, images and sequences in Blade were to the subsequently released Matrix. In fact I had to look today on IMDB to see who exactly was involved in both movies, only to find out that virtually nobody had anything to do with both. I could not believe that not only had I not realized this before, but that I hadn't even heard anything about how similar the two are. These two movies are more similar in presentation, artistic imagination and cinematography than Pi and Requiem For a Dream! I'm not saying, necessarily, that it detracts from the incredible effort and excellence apparent in The Matrix, or that the two are all that comparable, but when I see someone performing hyper-realistic martial arts with an unbelievable machine gun and a black trenchcoat jumping through the air flippping and killing 100 people a minute to techno music I feel like I'm experiencing deja-vu! Like I said I'm not knocking The Matrix, I just had to put this info out there!!!!