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The Second Renaissance Part II (2003)

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Very entertaining, 26 April 2004

Author: Mortus from Odense, Denmark

In part 2 of The Second Renaissance the trade war between the humans and the machines which began in part 1 now escalates into a shooting war. The war scenes are excellent and shown in a frantic pace with a heavy techno beat, not unlike the one we hear during the lobby-scene in "The Matrix", along side. The movie (part 1+2) answers many of the questions you are left with after seeing "The Matrix" regarding the development from our time to the time when "The Matrix" takes place, such as who started the war, how man scorched the sky, and how the surface war between man and machine went. For anyone who wants to learn more about the whole Matrix-universe The Second Renaissance is highly recommendable and for others I can only say that the movie is highly entertaining. 9/10 May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins

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Very interesting back story delivered with frantic style, 15 June 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

With the robot city isolated and it's ambassadors ejected from the United Nations, a trade war begins to protect the human economy from superior products. When the trade war escalates into war the machines begin a seemingly unstoppable march across the globe. With solutions running out man darkens the sky to try and shut out the machine's main energy source, but the machines keep coming and the war for earth reaches it's horrifying conclusion.

The second part of the history of the Matrix leaves aside the civil unrest and political build up and launches straight into the war for earth. Where part 1 used fictional news footage to good effect, here the main use is cameras belonging to the human soldiers. The violence, terror and speed of the war is well brought out and I found myself unable to look away as it was really gripping. Some of it is very gory but the overall impression is that man was overcome by sheer weight of numbers.

As a sister to the films this works very well. You don't need to have seen this short to understand the film but it enriches your experience. Unlike some of the other shorts that you do need to see to understand the films (or bits of them anyway). The animation is very frantic and very slick and the thing is pure style with the strong substance.

Overall it is easy to dismiss this but it does have enough style of it's own to justify it's existence as a short in it's own right. It suggests that (unlike many blockbusters) this trilogy (for all it's flaws) was established in a world that was planned rather than one which was expanded when the box office suggested that it would be a good idea to try to do so.

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The best of the Animatrix shorts, 8 November 2004

Author: Agent10 from Tucson, AZ

There is no comparison to this short film. While it is the bloodiest and possibly has the least amount of plot, the idea and brutality of this story brings about a side of the Matrix that no one could ever have dreamed of. The eventual taking over of mankind was rather interesting, but the thing that was missing was the beginning of the human revolution and the first tests of the actual Matrix. But then again, this film did just fine without those two little plot points, considering the story moved along quite nicely. The only other question I have though is, why weren't the two stories combined for the sake of continuity?

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At least as good as the first part, 12 August 2004

Author: Grann-Bach (Grann-Bach@jubii.dk) from Denmark

Being the direct followup to the the first part of The Second Renaissance, this is at least as good as the first part, and possibly better. Whereas the first part detailed the moments leading up to the war, this one shows the war, and the direct aftermath, which result is the world we know from the first Matrix film. The war is shown in a very apocalyptic and "the end of the world" fashion, and it works very well. I liked how, in the first part, man were treating the robots and the machines as objects, pushing them away and denying them rights, whereas in this part, the tables are turned, and the robots treat humans in the exact same, careless way, as man treated the robots in the first. The result of this is, of course, the very world presented in the first Matrix film. The story of the film also details and presents very well the things that were hinted at in the first film, and not shown in either of the two sequels(the "destruction of the sky", for instance). The animation in this is great, putting 3D CGI elements into 2D landscapes and backgrounds, as well as providing the film with about as much disturbing visuals as the first part did. All in all, a great short film, that should be interesting to anyone who enjoyed the first part, any of the Matrix films or any part of the phenomena, and various other, similar science fiction ideas. I recommend it to fans of the Matrix phenomena, and anyone who enjoyed the first part should definitely not miss this one. 8/10

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A good history lesson, 25 October 2003

Author: Darth_Vicious from Sweden

I love history in all its forms, even made up movie history. And this movie was one hell of a history lesson. It displayed suffering like I've never seen before. It gave more meaning to the other movies. And it also made think. Is the human rebellion against the machine slavery just? (Don't want to express further thoughts about that in this comment because it would spoil the movie). And the animations were fantastic. In short: one hell of a movie.

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
Again pretty good, 25 October 2003

Author: rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com) from The Hague, Netherlands

This is the third part of 'The Animatrix', a collection of animated short movies that tell us a little more about the world of 'The Matrix'. It is part 2 of 'The Second Renaissance' and this part tells us how men tried to wipe out the machines but were wiped out themselves. We see how the machines use the energy from the human bodies in their own benefit. We see what was told in 'The Matrix'. Again a little history from the world of 'The Matrix'.

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A weak prelude to a great series, 13 November 2004

Author: eqrunnerguy from Santee, California

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

TSR parts 1 and 2 are probably the most important shorts on the Animatrix, being the story of how humanity ended up being slaves to the machines. Despite that, it is over-the-top in it's delivery, but none of the story seems to make sense unless you think humanity is an utterly incomprehensible monster with no common sense, ethics or sense of perspective.

***SPOILERS***

A robot kills his master, precipitating a worldwide destruction of robots, adapting footage from riots and insurrections the world overt, including a particularly disturbing scene of the rape of a robot woman. Throughout this series, humans are depicted as a race of Nazis on steroids.Their mindset seems to be "if you accidentally bumped into me on the street, I will shoot you and kill your entire family". Berserk animals so unrealistic it would almost hurt my love for the Matrix movies if this was the first thing I were to be exposed to. It's as thought the Wachowskis couldn't think of a reason why the war started, or perhaps they wanted to avoid a story too similar to The Terminator, so they settled on an idiotic parody of mankind as being the aggressors. In a series with people flying, turning into ghosts, and stopping bullets with their mind, it is The Second Renaissance that is the most unrealistic.

3/10

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A serious dose of the Red Pill that hits close to reality, 17 April 2004
Author: BushidoHacks

Who is the lesser of two evils?

I think the hook in this film was how the machines located their city, 01, in an area of great turmoil: The Middle East.

When the peaceful robots offer recognition, the world reacted negatively. When the world fell, 01 tortured the world that abused and refused them.

Is it really justice for the machines to enslave humanity? Is it really the best interest for the world to destroy itself to destroy its enemy through private agendas and contractors, likewise, is it really the best interest for the enemy to the world through terrorism and fear that the world will continue to use them for what they can only provide?

The terror does not come from 01 or the world, it comes from people with personal interest, great influence, and strong ideology.

Like all good films, they are the red pill stories. This is one of them.

Wake up, it's not a dream! IT IS REAL! An inevitable end...WAKE UP! Delay the apocalypse by taking action and responsibility for ones own mistakes.

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Part 1, part 2, whatever, 4 August 2004

Author: TheOtherFool from The Netherlands

Part 2 goes on where part 1 stopped (such a surprise!), as the machines feel they don't belong to the humans any longer and start their own country, zero-one. Their economy is growing and they become a threat to all mankind, so they bomb them with everything they got... but fail (as you would expect since otherwise there wouldn't have been a matrix).

Part 2 is a bit more gripping than part 1, although I keep on wondering: is it really important for us to 'know' this? The animatrix series should be an extra for the matrix movies, and for instance 'Osiris' is just that... but Renaissance, whether it's part one or two, feels silly more than intense and pointless more than important... 5/10.

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