Review of A Detective Story

This short looks gorgeous, but doesn't necessarily add anything either to the Matrix storyline or the overall Animatrix short's exploration of the world. It makes sense that the Agents would hire private investigators to track down the hacker avatars of the main characters, but nothing really useful is made out of this story. Instead, the animation itself is really just an homage to the film noir stylings that are homaged in the main movies, especially the first Matrix. It's pretty, there's no denying that--but a lot more could have been made of it.

--PolarisDiB