Immediately before the events of The Matrix Reloaded, the crew of the hovercraft Osiris discovers a quarter of a million sentinels drilling through the surface of the earth towards the last human city of Zion. But can the Osiris survive long enough to warn Zion?
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In my opinion, this was an okay short. It was nothing compared to my favorite (Detective Story), and the sole purpose of this episode was to simply be eye candy.Yes, eye candy. From the fight/striptease at the beginning to the closing credits, the short is VERY visually attractive, but the acting is sub-par and the story is simply a typical Matrix action scene minus the plot. Yes, I understand it is the story of the Osiris discovering the Machine invasion heading for Zion, but the short itself is simply...kind of dull, honestly.If you like computer generated asian girls getting naked with katanas and some shady mention of a backstory setting up the movies, this is for you. If you like a neat short story with neat little inner tidbits that stands alone without the movies, watch Detective Story.
This short was visually stunning and full of action. It created a different world within the mind's of matrix fans. It made me care about other characters outside of the one's featured in the movie. Jue made me wish Lucy Liu had been cast in an upcoming sequel.
The Final Flight of the Osiris is our first chance to see one of the Animatrix shorts we first heard about on the "Matrix Revisited" dvd - and boy did it deliver! Directed by the Animation Director for "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", Final Flight delves further into the Matrix universe and manages in its 9 short minutes to not only create a greater anticipation for the upcoming Matrix Sequels, but convey a well written and action-packed story that the film it opened in front of, Dreamcatcher (2003), couldn't do in its 136 minutes. I greatly look forward to the other seven Animatrix shorts and thank the Wachowski brothers once again for bringing us the most important piece of science fiction since Star Wars.
Animatrix: The final flight of Osiris is a short, computer generated film which demonstrates the wonder-stuff that is the Wachowski brothers.Osiris is a ship that like the Nebacaneza and crew of the Original Matrix feature film flies aimlessly around the matrix trying to avoid nasties and keeping its small crew alive.The opening fight training scene is amazing to say the least. The use of this short animation film as a background filler to the release of The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions (coming out in 2003) is a clever idea that definitely gets the juices flowing and wanting more.A tantalising teaser of what is to come and what we want to see.
