The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded 
Promotional film posterDirected by Wachowski brothers Produced by Joel Silver
Wachowski brothers Written by Wachowski brothers Starring Keanu Reeves
Laurence Fishburne
Carrie-Anne Moss
Hugo Weaving
Harold Perrineau
Randall Duk Kim
Jada Pinkett Smith
Helmut Bakaitis Music by Don Davis Cinematography Bill Pope Editing by Zach Staenberg Studio Village Roadshow Pictures
Silver Pictures Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date(s) May 15, 2003 Running time 138 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $150 million Gross revenue $742,128,461[1] Preceded by The Matrix Followed by The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by theWachowski brothers. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. inNorth American theatres on May 15, 2003, and around the world during the latter half of that month. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, theAnimatrix, which was released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the movie. The Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six months after Reloaded in November 2003.
Neo wakes from a nightmare in which Trinity is shot by an Agent of the Matrix while falling from a building. Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all Zion's hovercraft. Zion has confirmed the last transmission of the Osiris: an army of Sentinels are tunneling towards Zion and will reach it in 72 hours. Commander Lock, the ranking military officer of Zion, orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare for the onslaught. Morpheus asks a ship to remain to contact the Oracle, in defiance of Commander Lock's orders. The Caduceus receives a message from the Oracle, and the Nebuchadnezzar ventures out so Neo can contact her. One of the Caduceus crew, Bane, encounters Agent Smith, who takes over Bane's avatar. Smith leaves the Matrix, taking over Bane's real body.[edit]Plot
In Zion's temple, Morpheus announces the news of the advancing machines to the people. Neo receives a message from the Oracle and returns to the Matrix, meeting her. Realizing the Oracle is part of the Matrix, Neo asks how he can trust her; she replies that it is his decision. The Oracle explains that she is an exiled program and instructs Neo to reach the Source of the Matrix by finding the Keymaker, a prisoner in the home of the Merovingian. The Keymaker makes keys that can open portals hidden within the Matrix. As the Oracle departs, Smith appears, telling Neo that after being defeated he knew he was supposed to return to the Source to be deleted, but refused and now is not bound to remove threats from the Matrix. He demonstrates his ability to clone himself using other people in the Matrix as hosts, prompting a fight between Neo and Smith's clones. Outnumbered, Neo flees.
Neo, Morpheus and Trinity visit the Merovingian and ask for the Keymaker, but the Merovingian refuses. His wife Persephone, tired of her husband's attitude, betrays him and leads the trio to the Keymaker, sending one of the Merovingian's henchmen to notify him of it. The Merovingian soon shows up and, while Morpheus, Trinity, and the Keymaker escape, Neo fights the Merovingian's men and ends up in an unknown mountain range. He then heads for town, where Morpheus and Trinity are trying to escape with the Keymaker on the highway, facing several Agents and The Twins. Ultimately, the Twins are destroyed, and Neo saves Morpheus and the Keymaker.
Zion's remaining ships prepare to battle the machines. Within the Matrix, the crews of the Nebuchadnezzar, Vigilant and Logos help the Keymaker and Neo reach the door to the Source. The crew of the Logos must destroy a power plant in order to prevent a security system from being triggered by the Keymaker's keys, and the crew of the Vigilant must destroy a back-up power station. The Vigilant is bombed by a Sentinel, killing everyone aboard. Though Neo requested that Trinity remain on the Nebuchadnezzar, she destroys the back-up station. Her escape is compromised by an Agent and they fight. As Neo, Morpheus and the Keymaker reach the Source through a hallway of shortcuts to other doors in the Matrix, the 'Smiths' appear and try to kill them. The Keymaker unlocks the door to the Source, allowing Neo and Morpheus to escape the 'Smiths', but the Keymaker is killed.
Neo meets an anthropomorphic program called the Architect, the Matrix's creator. The Architect tells Neo that there have been multiple versions of the Matrix and multiple versions of the One, a computer anomaly used as a means of control. Because humanity rejected the "perfect" Matrix as well as the dystopian Matrix, the machines realized that humanity needed to be offered the power of choice in order for them to accept it. The current Matrix is flawed and remains an unbalanced equation. The One is the sum of the remainder of that flaw. The One's purpose is to return to the Source, resetting the Matrix to its prime program. Afterwards, he will choose 16 females and 7 males to repopulate Zion and provide another round of humans for the "rebellion". Otherwise the unresolved error will spiral out of control, destroying the humans connected to the Matrix, which coupled with the battle at Zion will result in the extinction of the human race . Neo retorts that the machines need humans to survive and will not allow this; the Architect replies that, "there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
The Architect gives Neo a choice of two exits from the room: one door leads to the Source and the resetting of the Matrix, the other will lead to the Matrix's failure and humanity's destruction. Neo notices Trinity's battle with the Agent on the viewscreens and returns to the Matrix to save her. Neo's love for Trinity is revealed as a new variable in the repetition of the Matrix — while the previous Ones had no reason to choose humanity's destruction over accepting their function, Neo chooses to save Trinity at the cost of mankind's survival, despite the near certainty that she will die anyway after Zion's destruction.
Neo races to save Trinity, who is shot by an Agent as they fall from a building but caught by Neo before hitting the ground. Refusing to accept her death, Neo removes the bullet and revives her. On board the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo reveals that the prophecy is false and Zion will be destroyed in twenty-four hours. Sentinels destroy the ship, whereupon Neo saves his friends by using a previously unknown power to disable the Sentinels with an EMP-like shockwave, then falls unconscious. The crew is rescued by the hovercraft Mjolnir (also known as the Hammer), whose crew explains that they were leading a pre-emptive attack on the Sentinels advancing on Zion. The strategy was to use the ships' EMPs and stay out of each others' range; but an EMP was detonated by the Caduceus before the ships were in position. Multiple ships were left without power, with only a handful of survivors escaping, the Sentinels having destroyed any ship that could not escape. Once the machines returned to digging, the Mjolnir looked for survivors and found only one: the Smith-controlled Bane.
[edit]Cast
- Keanu Reeves as Neo
- Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity
- Hugo Weaving as Smith
- Gloria Foster as The Oracle
- Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect
- Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian
- Monica Bellucci as Persephone
- Neil Rayment as Twin #1
- Adrian Rayment as Twin #2
- Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson
- Collin Chou as Seraph
- Nona Gaye as Zee (Aaliyah was originally cast.)
- Gina Torres as Cas
- Anthony Zerbe as Councillor Hamann
- Roy Jones, Jr. as Captain Ballard
- David A. Kilde as Agent Jackson
- Randall Duk Kim as The Keymaker
- Harry J. Lennix as Commander Lock
- Matt McColm as Agent Thompson
- Harold Perrineau Jr. as Link
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
- Cornel West as Councillor West
- Steve Bastoni as Captain Soren
- Bernard White as Rama-Kandra
- Anthony Wong as Ghost
- Ian Bliss as Bane
Zee was originally to be played by Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, before filming was complete.
[edit]Production
The Matrix Reloaded was largely filmed at Fox Studios Australia in Australia, concurrently with filming of the sequel Revolutions. The freeway chase scene was filmed at the decommissioned Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California. Producers constructed a 1.5-mile freeway on the old runways just for the movie. Portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube connecting Oakland and Alameda. Some post-production editing was done in old aircraft hangars on the base as well.
The city of Akron was willing to give full access to Route 59, the stretch of freeway known as the "Innerbelt", for filming of the freeway chase when it was under consideration. However, producers decided against this as "the time to reset all the cars in their start position would take too long".[3] MythBusters would later reuse the Alameda location in order to explore the effects of a head-on collision between two semi trucks, and to perform various other experiments.
97% of the materials from the sets of the movie were recycled after the production ended. For example, tons of wood were sent to Mexico to build low-income housing.
| The Matrix Reloaded | |
|---|---|
 Promotional film poster | |
| Directed by | Wachowski brothers |
| Produced by | Joel Silver Wachowski brothers |
| Written by | Wachowski brothers |
| Starring | Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss Hugo Weaving Harold Perrineau Randall Duk Kim Jada Pinkett Smith Helmut Bakaitis |
| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Bill Pope |
| Editing by | Zach Staenberg |
| Studio | Village Roadshow Pictures Silver Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 15, 2003 |
| Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150 million |
| Gross revenue | $742,128,461[1] |
| Preceded by | The Matrix |
| Followed by | The Matrix Revolutions |
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by theWachowski brothers. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. inNorth American theatres on May 15, 2003, and around the world during the latter half of that month. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, theAnimatrix, which was released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the movie. The Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six months after Reloaded in November 2003.
Neo wakes from a nightmare in which Trinity is shot by an Agent of the Matrix while falling from a building. Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all Zion's hovercraft. Zion has confirmed the last transmission of the Osiris: an army of Sentinels are tunneling towards Zion and will reach it in 72 hours. Commander Lock, the ranking military officer of Zion, orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare for the onslaught. Morpheus asks a ship to remain to contact the Oracle, in defiance of Commander Lock's orders. The Caduceus receives a message from the Oracle, and the Nebuchadnezzar ventures out so Neo can contact her. One of the Caduceus crew, Bane, encounters Agent Smith, who takes over Bane's avatar. Smith leaves the Matrix, taking over Bane's real body.[edit]Plot
In Zion's temple, Morpheus announces the news of the advancing machines to the people. Neo receives a message from the Oracle and returns to the Matrix, meeting her. Realizing the Oracle is part of the Matrix, Neo asks how he can trust her; she replies that it is his decision. The Oracle explains that she is an exiled program and instructs Neo to reach the Source of the Matrix by finding the Keymaker, a prisoner in the home of the Merovingian. The Keymaker makes keys that can open portals hidden within the Matrix. As the Oracle departs, Smith appears, telling Neo that after being defeated he knew he was supposed to return to the Source to be deleted, but refused and now is not bound to remove threats from the Matrix. He demonstrates his ability to clone himself using other people in the Matrix as hosts, prompting a fight between Neo and Smith's clones. Outnumbered, Neo flees.
Neo, Morpheus and Trinity visit the Merovingian and ask for the Keymaker, but the Merovingian refuses. His wife Persephone, tired of her husband's attitude, betrays him and leads the trio to the Keymaker, sending one of the Merovingian's henchmen to notify him of it. The Merovingian soon shows up and, while Morpheus, Trinity, and the Keymaker escape, Neo fights the Merovingian's men and ends up in an unknown mountain range. He then heads for town, where Morpheus and Trinity are trying to escape with the Keymaker on the highway, facing several Agents and The Twins. Ultimately, the Twins are destroyed, and Neo saves Morpheus and the Keymaker.
Zion's remaining ships prepare to battle the machines. Within the Matrix, the crews of the Nebuchadnezzar, Vigilant and Logos help the Keymaker and Neo reach the door to the Source. The crew of the Logos must destroy a power plant in order to prevent a security system from being triggered by the Keymaker's keys, and the crew of the Vigilant must destroy a back-up power station. The Vigilant is bombed by a Sentinel, killing everyone aboard. Though Neo requested that Trinity remain on the Nebuchadnezzar, she destroys the back-up station. Her escape is compromised by an Agent and they fight. As Neo, Morpheus and the Keymaker reach the Source through a hallway of shortcuts to other doors in the Matrix, the 'Smiths' appear and try to kill them. The Keymaker unlocks the door to the Source, allowing Neo and Morpheus to escape the 'Smiths', but the Keymaker is killed.
Neo meets an anthropomorphic program called the Architect, the Matrix's creator. The Architect tells Neo that there have been multiple versions of the Matrix and multiple versions of the One, a computer anomaly used as a means of control. Because humanity rejected the "perfect" Matrix as well as the dystopian Matrix, the machines realized that humanity needed to be offered the power of choice in order for them to accept it. The current Matrix is flawed and remains an unbalanced equation. The One is the sum of the remainder of that flaw. The One's purpose is to return to the Source, resetting the Matrix to its prime program. Afterwards, he will choose 16 females and 7 males to repopulate Zion and provide another round of humans for the "rebellion". Otherwise the unresolved error will spiral out of control, destroying the humans connected to the Matrix, which coupled with the battle at Zion will result in the extinction of the human race . Neo retorts that the machines need humans to survive and will not allow this; the Architect replies that, "there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."
The Architect gives Neo a choice of two exits from the room: one door leads to the Source and the resetting of the Matrix, the other will lead to the Matrix's failure and humanity's destruction. Neo notices Trinity's battle with the Agent on the viewscreens and returns to the Matrix to save her. Neo's love for Trinity is revealed as a new variable in the repetition of the Matrix — while the previous Ones had no reason to choose humanity's destruction over accepting their function, Neo chooses to save Trinity at the cost of mankind's survival, despite the near certainty that she will die anyway after Zion's destruction.
Neo races to save Trinity, who is shot by an Agent as they fall from a building but caught by Neo before hitting the ground. Refusing to accept her death, Neo removes the bullet and revives her. On board the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo reveals that the prophecy is false and Zion will be destroyed in twenty-four hours. Sentinels destroy the ship, whereupon Neo saves his friends by using a previously unknown power to disable the Sentinels with an EMP-like shockwave, then falls unconscious. The crew is rescued by the hovercraft Mjolnir (also known as the Hammer), whose crew explains that they were leading a pre-emptive attack on the Sentinels advancing on Zion. The strategy was to use the ships' EMPs and stay out of each others' range; but an EMP was detonated by the Caduceus before the ships were in position. Multiple ships were left without power, with only a handful of survivors escaping, the Sentinels having destroyed any ship that could not escape. Once the machines returned to digging, the Mjolnir looked for survivors and found only one: the Smith-controlled Bane.
[edit]Cast
- Keanu Reeves as Neo
- Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus
- Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity
- Hugo Weaving as Smith
- Gloria Foster as The Oracle
- Helmut Bakaitis as The Architect
- Lambert Wilson as The Merovingian
- Monica Bellucci as Persephone
- Neil Rayment as Twin #1
- Adrian Rayment as Twin #2
- Daniel Bernhardt as Agent Johnson
- Collin Chou as Seraph
- Nona Gaye as Zee (Aaliyah was originally cast.)
- Gina Torres as Cas
- Anthony Zerbe as Councillor Hamann
- Roy Jones, Jr. as Captain Ballard
- David A. Kilde as Agent Jackson
- Randall Duk Kim as The Keymaker
- Harry J. Lennix as Commander Lock
- Matt McColm as Agent Thompson
- Harold Perrineau Jr. as Link
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
- Cornel West as Councillor West
- Steve Bastoni as Captain Soren
- Bernard White as Rama-Kandra
- Anthony Wong as Ghost
- Ian Bliss as Bane
Zee was originally to be played by Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, before filming was complete.
[edit]Production
The Matrix Reloaded was largely filmed at Fox Studios Australia in Australia, concurrently with filming of the sequel Revolutions. The freeway chase scene was filmed at the decommissioned Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California. Producers constructed a 1.5-mile freeway on the old runways just for the movie. Portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube connecting Oakland and Alameda. Some post-production editing was done in old aircraft hangars on the base as well.
The city of Akron was willing to give full access to Route 59, the stretch of freeway known as the "Innerbelt", for filming of the freeway chase when it was under consideration. However, producers decided against this as "the time to reset all the cars in their start position would take too long".[3] MythBusters would later reuse the Alameda location in order to explore the effects of a head-on collision between two semi trucks, and to perform various other experiments.
97% of the materials from the sets of the movie were recycled after the production ended. For example, tons of wood were sent to Mexico to build low-income housing.