Welshrogue

My wife is an instant pole dancer.

Just add alcohol.

A special team put together from the CIA, Special Forces and the Marines search for stolen radioactive material that they fear will be used against the United States in a terrorist attack.

First Team started slowly but picked up the pace towards the climax. The danger with a story dealing with such a subject as radioactive material is that the author uses too much technical information and the reader begins to gloss over, luckily, while it does happen here, it is only briefly.

The action, as with Larry Bonds books, is first rate with the main characters believably over coming the challenges thrown their way and its nice to see that they didn’t have to kill everyone they meet, as so many books seem to have.

Obviously the first in a serious of books that probably will be written more by Jim DeFlice than Larry Bond, a good start with a solid bunch of characters and plot. Look forward to the next one.

The Matrix is the story of a hacker who is suddenly told that everything he sees and believes is actually generated by computers as his actual body is maintained by robots for the electrical energy it generates.

The Matrix was a huge box office hit, aided by the special effects and the big names of Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishborne among others.
The Matrix was directed by the Wachowski brothers, who before this, hadn’t made any movies in the same vein. Obviously after The Matrix they went on to make the sequels before making the politically charged V for Vendetta.The Matrix, as mentioned, had a great cast, introducing Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving to a bigger audience than they had received before. The story is a great mind twister but often has to take a back seat to the special effects such as ‘bullet time’. As a visual treat, The Matrix is second to none. As a story, especially when taking into account the poor second and third movies it perhaps didn’t have the focus it needed, and perhaps with the later movies, was just a vehicle for more stunning special effects.

A must see movie, if only for the special effects.