Dolph Lundgren in Matrix ???

[shooby]

The second movie with Keanu !!!

[Mosquito]

Dolph kicks ass but he's got a totally different type of coolness. Lawrence Fishburne is Mr. Cool himself. To be honest, I don't think that Dolph would have achieved the same level of performance. What about Dolph as Agent Smith?

[shooby]

Keanu and Dolph worked together in Johnny Mnemonic. Dolph's Character was really cool but it was very short. I think Morpheus would have been a really great and satisfying role for him.

Originally heshould have more length but with the movie speed with Keanu Reeves which has been a great succes before, the director of Johnny Mnemmonic decides to give more importance to Keanu's charcatere instead of Dolph's charactere

[Jox]

I think THE MATRIX was a rip off (a movie that makes people believe it's deep but it's in fact very superficial) so I'm glad Dolph wasn't part of it...

[Terminator]

Yeah... but Matrix is already boring. Even with Dolph in the main role I surely won't watch it.
Something completely new. Maybe he'd try to stand up to his movie Pentathlon in 1994 to represent one of the best athletes from the 80s who still seems to be in business.

[shooby]

I think THE MATRIX was a rip off (a movie that makes people believe it's deep but it's in fact very superficial) so I'm glad Dolph wasn't part of it...

yesbut matrix was a good succes, so if Dolph shot in it it was good for his career

[Mosquito]

At least the first part was a great movie. Eye candy. Of course it was quite superficial but the characters were cool, the artwork was great and the special effects were astonishing. They invented "bullet time" after all, didn't they?

[Jox]

Actually "bullet time" has been used before "The Matrix"...

[preacher]

Was it really used before Matrix?
I have the DVD and on it there is this featurette called "What is Bullet-Time?". In this, some guy (Who is like the visualeffects supervisor or something like that) talks about how Bullet-time was especially developed for the Matrix.
You get to see the first bullet-time test-sequence and stuff like that.

When was is it used before 'The Matrix'?

peace.

[Jox]

Of course, they brag about themselves on the Matrix DVD... and denie that the bullet time has been done a couple of times before in some Hong Kong action flicks, in the first "Blade", and even in an old Christian Slater movie called "KUFFS".

[Craigie-Boy]

I know this topic hasn't been posted in for a heckuva long time now, but yeah - although they'll most likely refute any such claims, the Matrix crew did not invent bullet time. Sure, they updated and glamourized it in The Matrix, but as Jox said, it can be seen in Blade, which was released a year earlier. Everybody knows that The Matrix took elements from 101 other movies - it certainly can't claim to be original in any way.
Look at the fight scenes in the Mark Dacascos movie Drive, which was filmed in 1995 - that film definitely has elements that can be found in The Matrix...stylized gunplay, a lead bad guy who wears cool shades, and a fight scene between two guys with superhuman speed and strength.