Neo vs Merovingian | The Matrix Reloaded [IMAX]
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Scene: Neo vs Merovingian
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Storyline: Neo and his allies race against time before the machines discover the city of Zion and destroy it. While seeking the truth about the Matrix, Neo must save Trinity from a dark fate within his dreams.
Directors: The Wachowski Brothers
Cast: Keanu Reeves (Thomas A. Anderson \ Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), Daniel Bernhardt (Agent Johnson), Gloria Foster (The Oracle), Jada Pinkett Smith (Niobe), Harold Perrineau (Link), Lambert Wilson (Merovingian), Harry J. Lennix (Commander Lock)
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Neo: blocks a whole ass sword bare handed and only bleeds a little Merovingian: "this dude weak as shit"
That’ll four bucks baby you want fires with that!?
That’ll be four bucks baby you want fries with that!?
Thanos: All that for a drop of blood
@@EricLatios 😯
I think the point made is that the matriix still targets neo as a human, so he bleeds, while the other guys are programs and despite neo beats the shit out of them, they dont bleed at all.
Best part about this fight: decent length stable shots. Most modern movie fights would have 10,000 cuts. Here, you can actually see WTF is going on
"Look, how the fuck else are we going to make a pensioner like liam neeson appear as if he were a ninja other than 50 cut shots for him climbing over a fence" - Studios.
I was especially impressed when he picked up the long sword and started on a long ass combo. Very well choreographed. Not like marvel movies where you have an epileptic seizure trying to understand how Black Widow does a take down
@@muzzers2776 yeah black widow scenes are always confusing because they have to hide her stunt double and she also does the most complicated takedowns so the cuts make it a lot more confusing
The Bourne series: *sweats profusely*
This movie was way ahead of its time
This scene is amazing not only because of the fight itself, but also because of how much Matrix lore is explored here without telling the audience anything, perfectly implementing "show, don't tell". Merovingian is a program from an older version of the Matrix, who lives by collecting other outdated programs and giving them shelter from agents who look for abnormalities to delete. All of his "men" who are fighting here are actually programs, not people. They all exist in human folklore as legendary creatures, because some people actually have seen them, before agents got to them or they flet to Merovingian. We learn Merovingian collects them because "they are hard to kill". And we actually see this, visualized: 1. *The twins are the "ghost" programs,* the most powerful ones, because it's almost impossible to kill them due to their phasing ability. During the chase scene we see they are even more talented in chasing Zionians than agents. 2. In the 3rd film we learn Seraph, who is *an angel program* (very powerful programs, capable of beating agents 1 on 1), was also once a property of Merovingian. We see another angel program here, it's the asian guy in white clothes and black glasses - similar attire to that of Seraph. He also dies last, which proves he really is hardest to kill of all programs Neo fought. Neo can kill any agent with just a few hits, which he displayed before. 3. *Next in the hierarchy of being "hard to kill" are vampires.* There are 3 vampire programs in this fight. All are dressed the same, in black clothes, with black sunglasses. If you played the canon Matrix game, you'll know that the only way to kill them is to impale them, like the actual vampires from the folklore. This is why they get up no matter how many times Neo hits them. Eventually, Neo figures this out, or just impales them by accident and they all die. First guy is impaled with a sword. Next with a trident, and the last one is hit with a spike from the large morning star by the angel guy. 4. *Least powerful are the werewolves programs.* They have no sunglasses, and they're dressed kind of randomly, that's how you can tell them apart from the other programs. Perhaps they do not wear fancy clothes and glasses because they'd be destroyed when they change anyway? Regardless, they are supposed to be more durable than humans, but clearly aren't that tough. Persephone kills Kain, one of them with a silver bullet, which is probably a way to bypass their durability completely, the other two go down when Neo hits them a single time, (one is kicked thru a statue and never gets back up, the other is hit with a mace) indicating they are even less durable than the agents.
whoa, nice
Información increíble, vi está película cuando era un niño en 2003 y 20 años después me entero de todo esto Siempre se aprende algo nuevo
he is a Cobol program
Cool brother. So this is what they mean when they say, watch closely...
oh damn why didn't this comment got 1k like yet, this is actually fascinating
Twenty years later, I’m still looking up and watching this scene on a regular basis. Brilliant.
same here. it´s absolutely crazy how this scene is that old so ahead of it´s time with choreography of the highest level and the music is absolutely Godlike too
I'm here with ya brothers🍿My younger brother, my dad and I used to watch this movie religiously. Today. I still watch this. God I love this fight scene and the background music *chef's kiss😚👌
I have the DVD queued in a closet so I can watch this scene before I go to work every Friday night.
I understand that the current Hollywood blockbusters are expensive and time-consuming, but I have the impression that the power of actual combat has diminished due to the continuous CG processing, so I would like to see this kind of martial arts-style fighting once again.
Such facts. Same.
The choreography in this scene is INSANE.. I like how the people that aren't directly fighting Neo aren't just standing around or looking the fight.. the "engaging, falling back and re-engaging" sequence is so smoothly done considering that are a lot of people in the scene
At 2:55 it takes too long for the third guy to appear behind Neo.
I was blown away by this. Compare this to the throne room “fight” from The Last Jedi to see how much a difference good choreography makes
@@Lecrie aahha you're right
Resurrection doesn’t compare
@@Lecrie you do know that the shot wasn't one shot it was multiple how could have they accurately estimated the time it would have took.
One thing I love the most about the Matrix movies is how stable the camera is during the fight scenes. Nowadays we get camera's shaking like the cameraman is having a seizure
It’s always shaky 3 million cuts per second and zoomed in too much. Not sure why they do it like that might be to hide some choreography mistakes or to make it feel “fast and frantic”. Just feels cheap and is a real eye sore.
They do that to mask that the action isn't as detailed or choreographed these days. This was artwork
Like a kpop video clip . Cut every two seconds just for make it more dynamic. I hate that
I think there are 2 common reasons for that. 1: modern actors often don't do their own stunts/fights, so cuts are made quicker and cameras are shaken violently to avoid showing the stuntman's face. 2: when they DO do their own stunts/fights, they only have them perform one move at a time and then change cuts. Whereas Reeves, Fishburne, and Weaving actually learned Kung Fu for the 1st Matrix, which gave them HUGE opportunities to choreograph fights, other actors have to pause, then take, then pause, then take, to cover up that they don't know the fighting styles their characters supposedly do. I also love the camera work in the Matrix movies, the direction on these films is excellent. But Matrix 2 has some choreography errors that bother me though, like how they "cross the line" at 0:48 , which is a great way to confuse the viewer, or using the same move of backflipping onto the stairs multiple times in one fight - going slow-mo each time as if it's a cool new move, when the viewer JUST saw him do that, or consistency issues, like which weapons characters are holding. Those are all minor errors of course, but it's something that has always made this movie feel off to me, cuz they do all of those in just about every fight in this movie. I wonder whose fault that is, since it's really only present in Reloaded.
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This film came out in 2003 and still looks better then films today. Wonderful job.
Didn’t it come out in 2001? Pretty sure it’s revolutions that came out 2003
Both came in 2003 @@illusion630
@@illusion630Both did.
@@illusion630Matrix came out in 1999, and both of the sequels came out in the same year, 2003.
It made me cry.
20 years later and still the best action sequence ever filmed
"fight" sequence?...maybe( no...not really). "action" sequence?...not even close. the WHOLE aliens movie was better than this.
@@TheSighphiguyyou is crazy.
@@TheSighphiguy This was both a fight and action sequence lmao. Do you know what those words even mean?
You need to watch better films. The Chinese cinema alone have hundreds of better scenes & Hollywood better action ones. Like in the og Matrix
@@TheSighphiguyHey guys. Remember Aliens > One Matrix Fight Sequence ? 😂
The music in this is one of the best parts of the whole trilogy.
nope
yes it is
@@rolandluth2098 yes it is. Music is legendary
Rob Dougan! Great stuff.
Juno reactor have been making great music for a very long time
I love how Neo doesnt sweat or look like he is even breathing, everything he does just looks effortless, really locks down the fantasy of the world they created.
@Oscar Garcia HUH...they are inside a computer program, there is no air to breathe that is the point...
@@dslims1 He talking about terminator bro
@@CaptainPopChunk Yes exactly,one of the main things i thought about, i love the character development from a computer hacker into The One.
Thats the whole point Morpheus said "you think that's air you're breathing in now" the matrix is just like any computer program some rules can be bent via code manipulation and some rules can be completely broken like neo being able to fly and stop bullets
@@mitchellchapman2954 Thanks Captain Obvious
two more brilliant things about this fight scene: 1.: neo ends the fight at the same place where it's getting started. 2.: it's not getting easier for neo during the fight because of the lack of opponnents. it's even getting more dynamic. very well made!
I've always loved the subtle posture change by Merovingian @ 1:05 where he goes from a relaxed, hands behind his back to a more guarded posture with arms when he sees Neo styling on his henchmen.
Watched this scene a ton of times and never noticed that!
Very nice eye! He did it when Neo got the closest he had to him in that whole fight too. Maybe couldn’t predict if he’d focus on everyone including him and not just the henchman, so he got ready just in case lol.
I've also noticed that he wears simillar outfit to Neo"s. Maybe it's a hint that Merovingian was one of the previous anomalies just like Neo.
Merovingian: "You see he's just a man". Neo: summons weapons with his thoughts.
😂😂😂
Also, um, dude did you see he stopped full blooded sword swing with the edge of his hand?!
Neo summons weapons like Thor
I was waiting for the moment when he fly like a superman .. but the video is over .
He used the Force. Neo is secretly a Jedi.
Imagine what this guy would do if someone killed his dog and stole his favorite car.
I can only imagine 😰🤔😹
Matrix has left the matrix 😂😂
Arc Angle rumor has it John wick is Neo stuck in the matrix but changed his image and name
That's a great idea. They should make a movie or 3 about it.
@@kal2352 😂
That raised eyebrow The Merovingian gives at 1:32 when Neo blocks that sword attack with his hand cracks me up every time. As if he was legitimately going to be surprised/concerned if Neo didn’t bleed from that bare handed block 😂😂
This scene was absolutely killer, the way the moves go and how quick they are, and so really looks is amazing
Keanu apparently trained for 8 months learning how to stop those bullet with his mind.
XD
It would've been 6 if Lawrence Fishburne hadn't waited to introduce the "what is life" speech he wrote himself
Thats obviously false. They took Keanu for the role because he already could do that.
You should see how he studys for his history homework
xDDDDD
Neo: "What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?" Morpheus: "No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."
I wonder if this means Morpheus knew bullets could be stopped by being able to know "there is no spoon" or in this case bullet, and wouldnt Morpheus know this? Why is Morpheus unable to do anything similar?
@@imetzl9340 that's easy..... yes.. Morpheus did know bullets could be stopped BY THE ONE by knowing there is no spoon. but Morpheus can't do because HE IS NOT THE ONE YOU NOTICE... that even though the others who have been in the matrix longer cypher, Dozer, Switch , Apoc, etc none of them can do it Not even morpheus BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT THE ONE a more interesting question would have been THE BALD KID WHO WAS BENDING THE SPOON THAT WASN'T REALLY THERE..... would he have been able to stop the bullets
Likely morpheus and crews subconscious made it real, that line he shared with Neo "Your mind makes it real" Neo, being the one, was the only one to completely rid himself of the illusion of the Matrix.
@@imetzl9340 I don't think he was thinking specifically that bullet could be stopped... it's that he knows that "THE ONE" can do anything. For all we know, he probably just thought that Neo could make bullets into marshmallows, thus not needing to dodge them.
@@martinkuliza that calls back to the first movie as well, the rooftop Agent encounter where he narrowly dodges all the rounds fired at him. The very first thing Trinity, who's seen just as much as Morpheus, asks incredulously is "How did you do that? You moved like they do! I've never seen anyone move that fast!". Even just before that as the Agent saw him move that way and has him at gunpoint, he says "Only human", but it sounds almost like the program is saying that as reassurance, that ok, that was crazy, he dodged bullets, not one but like 7, that's fuckin' weird...still, just a human.
I know I'm like the millionth person to say this, but this whole scene is masterful in its direction. You can see EVERYTHING that's going on. You're never unsure where everyone is in the room. They just let the camera roll for 10-15 seconds before a cut. Even the few rapid fire cuts are steady shots with the camera. Kudos to the directors and cameramen for shooting this so well, and to the editor for making this incredibly easy to follow
I’ve never tired of rewatching this fight scene over and over. Hands down my favorite in the trilogy. The choreography, soundtrack, everything about it is just pure bliss. And I am just amused that the Merovingian can be seen in the background during all the commotion with his arms just crossed, thinking, “this current version of the One truly has some badass skills.” Even Scott Adkins said in his very own YT channel, in a very recent interview with Keanu, that it is his fave fight scene of the whole trilogy as well!
It's insane how much better shot, edited, and choreographed this one sequence is than ANYTHING in The Matrix Resurrections. Look at how the action flows, the camera moves around with the actors. Cuts happen at a reasonable pace and match the action. Aside from the CG ghosts and stopped bullets, everything is practical effects and stuntwork. And this is just one scene, the trilogy is full of great action.
Yeah people can fawn over whatever conceptual acrobatics Lana was doing in Matrix 4, but it simply doesn't deliver as an action film. Incredibly sloppy filmmaking.
Agreed. I needed to see this after watching Matrix Ressurections. An action scene like this is what was missing.
new matrix 4 action scenes are just john wick ones. This video is more the "matrix" style of action scenes that i feel they lost in the new movie. Still liked it tho!
@@Fzr005 they are NOT even John Wick!
@@Fzr005 JOHN WICK action scenes, choreography and cinematography is even better than M4
The Merovingian just standing there in the background like an 80s videogame boss.
@@keanureeves8142 I mean you must have a head injury if you believe anyone thinks you're keanu reeves
@@Paulstrickland01 😂😂
The Merovingian IS an 80s videogame boss.
He stops bullets with his just raising his hands !! Yeaaa sure !! Try to kill him with swords instead !!! Lol 😂 lol 😂
Streets of rage 😂
For any who didn't get to see these films when they originally released, you really can't imagine how amazing these were to witness at the time. There was truly nothing else like them. The first one especially holds up well but I personally enjoy the sequels as well.
I'm still in tears
Yeah. It's true about that feeling. I was in my 20s. But not the third one. Everyone left the theater feeling defeated. Now I only like the first one. It will never be a bad movie because there's a ton of truth in it (only the first one).
By the way, great comment. I lost this comment and had to search for it again. Reading it reminded me of that excitement we all had between 1999 and 2003 for these characters.
I’m watching these for the first time. People can shit on these movies all they want it doesn’t change the fact almost no one is producing movies of this quality in this day and age.
20 years later and this whole scene is like a renaissance painting.
almost 20 years old and still incredible by todays standards, the use of actual people fighting in fight scenes just makes it so much better then going all out CGI which they could have easily done.
The lack of CGI? You mean apart from the bits that were done WITH CGI? Some of it was 'real', a lot of it was added post production.
@@another3997 I still think that it's very intense and gets the job done.
@@moriscoley5328this one looks great. There are other scenes, like Neo vs Smith clones which looks dreadful now.
@@another3997 yes sorry i meant the fighting and everything that could be done with actual people was done rather then opting for the easy way of just doing it all in CGI
@@nikunjdixit3225 Oh ye the NEo vs all the agent smith fights is a bit how ya going haha
*stops bullets with his mind* “... kill him.” Henchman: bruh
Underrated 😂😂😂
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🤣 I had a beverage bruh you cant be saying stuff like that.
might stop ranged weapons but if melee is his weakness then yeah, that's why he tried but instead got everyone killed
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The Matrix was such a huge stepping stone for movies! The CGI and Choreography are incredible.
Even the concept, the lore, world building, dialogue, easter eggs and color gradients was way ahead of it’s time. The whole movie had a sense of craftsmanship and maturity in sci-fi that wasn’t there before.
Almost everything in this scene is so beautiful and stylish. I'm crying and applauding inside.
Some Fun Facts: Keanu Reeves' stunt double here and the other Matrix movies, was Chad Stahelski. You may know him as one of the creators and the director of the John Wick franchise. Basically, John Wick & Matrix movies had the same stunt team. The Asian dude, with the cream coloured outfit, who gets killed last by Neo, is Tiger Chen. You may recognise him from John Wick 3, he's the guy who gets the knife in the eye. Keanu & Tiger are actually good friends and Keanu has directed a martial arts action movie, starring Tiger Chen, called ''Man of Tai Chi'', he also plays the villain in this and gets his ass kicked by Tiger for a change. Also, the fight choreography here was done by Yuen Woo-ping, legendary Hong Kong fight coordinator who has worked on tons of movies like the Ip Man series, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, tons of Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies etc. The actor who plays the ''Keymaker'', is Randal Duk Kim, who also appears in the John Wick movies as the doctor of the Continental, that treats John Wick's wounds in the first & third movie.
You... are one huge nerd but props :D
good information man gonna check that movie
Wow, i'm speechless dude, you did your homework Goddamm
Dope.
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The fact this has 39M views and was only uploaded 3 years ago shows how iconic this fight scene is
The soundtrack complements it perfectly.
It probably about 60million now on April 12 Friday at 942pm 2024 NY
Masterclass in filmmaking. Well prepared actors and stuntmen who are TOP NOTCH in their field. Fantastic choreography and skill to pull off everything that's happening , and there's ALOT!!!. No shaky cam or film cuts. almost like the entire scene was shot once. Wide angles and sweeping camera moves make the fight seem massive.. Just perfect
I like how, when he stops the blade with his hand, the Merovingian--even if for only one second--is genuinely impressed.
Neo's greatest feat?
@@Dante-vf4sd not even close.
@@Sharous_ What would you say? I say it's up there because it's the only thing that makes him bleed after becoming the One
@@Dante-vf4sd He has a Island level feat in the last movie, even a weaker version from him in 4th movie can blow up a Dojo.
@@Sharous Really? Where did that happen, I don't remember seeing him blow up an island, the dojo feat was in a simulation and for me was pretty much the same as his final move in the multi Smith fight before flying off and I'd say his final fight against Smith in revolutions when they collided in mid air was a bigger feat than those because of the shockwave it produced, it even knocked him out momentarily so for me that's an endurance feat which is also right up there and I'd probably put the journey from the source to catching Trinity up there at the top end as well, the speed he went and the fact he really seemed to put it all into it and the devastation caused to the environment. I just don't think those kind of albeit impressive and powerful and visually spectacular moves are quite the same as stopping a samurai sword mid swing with your bare hand.
"Your predecessors had much more respect" That line implies that the Merovingian has remained active despite The Matrix reloading six times which is interesting
yeah i either read on a wiki lore page once or it was explained in the movies i believe that he has been around since the start. All of those people fighting for him there including the ghost guys came from earlier iterations of the matrix that were more buggy/less perfect/ more surreal. Instead of letting them be deleted he survived and brought those fighters along with them (since theyre all obviously skilled especially the weird ghost twins). I believe both Merovingian and other popular characters like the train man, his wife the french girl, and other programs have existed in prior runs of the matrix as well. For example one of the scenes i recall in the matrix i think it was the indian couple and their daughter... sati? maybe? They were taking her to the oracle to be protected instead of being wiped by the machines in the matrix because she either wasn't serving her purpose or wasn't useful anymore. She is the same little girl who is with the oracle at the end of the third movie asking if neo will ever come back. Anyways, they were visiting him to basically save her because he had the ability to make that happen. I assume when a new matrix starts up a lot of the machine programs that live/run inside the matrix are earlier programs that existed before. Kinda like how we still had internet explorer(until recently) and microsoft word. ETC.
The Merovingian is in Resurrections.
The Merovingian is a program. He was the operating system for the first matrix, which was a hellish world intended to constantly keep the human inhabitants in a state of fear. All of his henchmen are from that period. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, they're all those myths were basically prototypes of the agents. The Merovingian's former position as an operating system for the matrix is why he can traffic programs, keeping them safe from deletion. His former role means that he understands the matrix better than anyone else apart from the architect. He knows how to hide programs from the system because he once was the system!
@@DECODEDVFX amazing. I didnt know all that. I knew a lot of it but not the parts about him being the OS for the first matrix by the machines I plan to read all the wiki lore i can find tonight
@@orphandjones8193 For real I wish this was more detailed in the movies, like how tf am I supposed to know that?? They were already badass and this background info makes them 100x more interesting
I want to give a shoutout to the music in this scene. I just love how it slowly builds up in intensity stronger and stronger as the fight progresses, and that sudden cutoff when Neo kills the last vampire is just perfect.
This fight scene will NEVER get old. Absolutely perfect choreography
Never!!!!!!
You see he's just a man Litrially 2 seconds later: Does a 6 meter backflip and uses the force
He means he isn’t just only a badass “hero”. he bleeds and does the same thing a man would do.
Neo should have replied: and you're just a program
Lets correct him, "he's just an unarmed man, who stops bullets, flying without equipment, using the force and block a big sword with his bare hand."
These days the appropriate reaction would honestly have been "All that for a drop of blood"...
Lol right
This scene never gets old
@user name It'll never get "good" because it's never been anything short of great ever since it was filmed.
Who would believe it was acted in 2003? Best scene
@user name Happy to help
@user name idk bout life changing, but I sincerely hope his comment changed your proof reading before commenting outlook...
@user name nothing sad about legibility.. Judging from your grammatical errors, defensiveness, and your pathetic, moronic name calling you must be 12 so I'll skip the discussion about how satirical comedy only works if it's understandable like, at all, until you're old enough to comprehend it...
I was 9 years old when I fell in love with the matrix. I’m basically 30 now, and I’m still in love. These movies were soooo ahead of its time. 🕶️
Still one of the cleanest fight scenes ever even with the exaggerated jumping and powers from the matrix the actual combat is very authentic and proper
Neo: *stops a barrage of bullets* Merovingian: It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force
But by our abilities, with a lightsaber
Because evil can't use the force.
@@carolinarises The Force can be used by evil people.
@@minihalkoja590 Please prove it, succinctly explain it.
But by our skills with the lightsaber
It’s funny when you realise Neo is just a dude playing online with cheat codes
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This is how i feel when i use Lucky Patcher.
Hahahaha that is so true
Sort of but he had powers in real life to mess with the machines
I thougt so too, matrix is baisically a game where everyone is a npc with few players mixed in and overpowered bots(agents) while neo is a hacker and the only one who can win against the bots.
I can’t believe with the amount of swords and knives on the wall, This guy choose a pitchfork 😂
The year was 2003 & Neo was a super cool hero...😊
Pretty cool how Neo can change reality at will, yet chooses to beat up his adversaries, taking his own time to kill them, just so the fight scene can be choreographed to an exceptional level. He chose cinema.
He can't change reality at will. Only Smith possessed such power. Smith is the anomaly that rebels against the system and must be plugged back into the source to be stopped.
@National Socialism Regardless of what the constructs were, they are still in the same matrix. Only the train man had a separate matrix.
@National Socialism Not Smith
@National Socialism I guess to supplement your point, yes, unique characters have unique abilities. But Smith is the only one that can assimilate them all and gain use of all abilities. In theory, Matrix 3 Smith is beyond turning into a ghost or going through walls. He IS literal god. He is everywhere and in everyone. In fact, he is everyone.
Please continue this discussion. Loving every word.
"You see? He's just a man." One second later Neo : *Back flip up to second floor and summons cutlery*
The weapon is called Sias
@@Forsoothious Sai. I have to admit, I love that weapon, even though I couldn't use it to save my life.
What???you guys cant do that??
I can tell that the IMAX version looks sick.
😂😂😂😂
What i love about this fight scene is how neo is aware of their every move even when they aren't in his line of sight. Its incredibly well thought out in terms of choreography and in the world building..
It's top 10 fight scene in the whole movie industry, the music and set-up are just from another level !!!
You can tell this scene is an actual love letter to stuntmen. Every fall, every crash is shown on the huge screen, slow mo, focused and makes everyone appreciate the amount of blood, sweat and tears these guys go thru to get this done.
That fall at 3:30 is definitely a true and proper stunt that looks like it hurts falling that high.
XD ye I always love when stuntmen and women get their own parts in the movies and get to actually act a bit. Like several of the agents are pro stuntmen. The 3 that show up when the captains are meeting to fight Neo are all stuntmen by trade I believe.
Keanu loved the stuntmen on this Matrix trilogy. Chad Stahelski was his stunt double in Reloaded/Revolutions and he shot John Wick for him. Tiger Chen was another stunt artist and they are very close.
@@andregordon2599 Tiger is also Keanu's trainer, they're pretty tight
Agreed they are all given as much chance to shine here as Keanu is. They all killed it.
Keanu actually improvised this scene, he was meant to run and dodge the bullets but he surprised the whole crew by stopping the bullets mid air
That has been deboonked
Herpdy der
The scene was much better in the book though
@@John-Adams Yes. The bullets stopped at their own when they knew Keanu was around.
Because in the 1st movie, Keanu asked Laurence, "you mean I'll be able to dodge bullets?", and Laurence told him, "I mean when you're ready, you won't have to"...... So Keanu was really feeling good that day. He felt ready.......
This for me is the best fight scene of all time....... like you can't get better than this
3:37 coolest part of the fight and the song, it's just so cool seeing neo going back and forth kicking ass
"You see he's just a man" *proceeds to backflip 20ft in the air and telekinetically summon two weapons*
Omfg after seeing this so many times, I never even noticed he had telekinesis 🤣 If it was a snake, I'd be bitten
I prefer the "6 meter" comment. Next time use metric, and will get as much recognition as the above comment got ;)
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@@LautaroTessi nigga stfu
neo does not have telekenesis. HE IS ONE WITH THE FORCE.
Almost 20 yrs, this scene is still so cool
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So is that lobby scene from the first movie where Trinity and Neo fight the soldiers, wild
I gut goosebumps when i saw Smith coming back on that playground.
The fights hold up...shockingly well in this movie.
@@keanureevess9350 u shud be ashamed of using keanu's name and doing sht
Best fight on Cinema History. Period.
Deadass
This is one of the best fight scenes ever. Very well done and I really liked how Neo used the Sai's. It's not a weapon you see a whole lot of. At least in American movies.
And people blasted this movie and it's successor. Compared to the crap coming out today, its a masterpiece.
second and third(especially) movie were already quite "hollywoodized", but there was still a lot of cinematic and intellectual content resembling the original..... this new one is as forgettable as my ex..... utter garbage
@@itkojecockot indeed, the second one added the "real world threat" twist but wasted it on the damned architect. The third movie did broadly ok until the idiotic mech-support top-heavy lift-wheelbarrows with ammo pallets for mech that are hardly moving, really? then the various rubberman-neo fights with smith, then that gods awful ending fight against smith in a corrupted but entirely replaceable/recoverable(?) matrix with the let-down (but utterly predictable for an anime fan) suicide play as the closing move. that they did have were world class stunt/choreography/filming/story-board teams who absolutely knocked the action scenes and general setting-use out of the park.
@@IRMentat the architect scene wasnt hard to understand. Even at 12 i understood everything he said. Made sense to me.
That's cos back then the standards were still high, they've dropped so much nowadays it makes the mid tier look incredible
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Bruh.. that man Keanu honestly a legend...
No replies? let’s fix that
Yeah when he was younger and played as neo he was badas sin John wick too but in cyberpunk 2077 they made him some wierd with a drinking Problem and watch stripper dance
@@sparrowizsoldier9785 he was great in cyberpunk. You’ve never seen him act like that before it was special.
coisa boaaa
You'sa just now realized
Can we appreciate how, with the exception of Neo blocking the sword with his bare hand, no one landed a single hit on him? (And, even then, that block can't be considered a clean hit.)
The continuity of the whole scene is perfect, if you see someone get hit, they dont get up later or appear as a background character waiting for their turn, since everybody is attacking with inhuman strength, once hit its one down Also, the fighter in here 2:25, once hit appears later in 2:37 and 2:56 still dismayed until woke up until 3:13 best part is 2:51, this one is one continuous Keanu Reeves using a sword against a trident in an excellent show of abilities But to top it of, when fighting the broad sword bald fella 3:04, Neo manages to connect a cut on his back thats barely shown the result at 3:39, its a moment, blink and you miss, but the cut is still there Maybe the best action scene in american history in a long long while, because it has few cuts in between punches, the usage and movements while using the weapons are superbly flowing and there's a lot of continuity between everyone participating
The choreography. The cinematography. The editing. The music. The set design. The costumes. The stunts. This is my all time favourite fight scene.
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Yeah, but there is zero chance that the chosen one will get killed.
There are no stakes here. The fight at the end of The Matrix was better.
@@09kaustubh stakes = better fight. lol. also implying stakes at the end
Debatable. One of tops nonetheless.
BRO THIS WAS MADE IN 2003!!!! I still come back to this and cant beleive how good this was. Definitely my favourite fight scene in the series.
nah bro - it CAME OUT in 2003 - XDDD it was made before that!
Yes, very impressive. I had forgotten how well done these fights were. Twenty years old and look better than most stuff today!!!
@@DekkarJr That is true the Wachowski Brothers (now sisters) worked fuckin fast as hell. Both Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions came out in 2003. I can't think of another series to do this and it makes perfect sense. Reloaded might have been ready for release in 2002 but they probably thought lets hold off and release two movies in a year to keep the audience attached.
@@DekkarJr It will be 20 years ago next year.
I am sure after watching this when it gets released for facts Warner brothers make billions out of this amazing shit...
I love how Merovingian is just standing there at 3:35. It just likes the final boss of a video game! :) You have to take care of its crew before killing the final boss
I never noticed that shot before...of him just standing there lol
@@supastar25 I think I watched this part like a gazillion times, that is why I am now noticing things that are in the background :)
But the difference is the boss ran away :)
@@peter6088 :) Nice one!
Yeah......I love the way Neo is always on the defensive fending off enemies. Why doesn't he go directly for the big man. We've seen him move much faster in the previous movie.
I'll handle them, you'll handle us he took that personal lmao.
I think this is my favorite fight scene in any movie ever
U need to watch John wick, also starring Keanu reeves
One of the biggest problems with 1 v many movie fights, they rarely show the 1 being ganged up on, it’s usually 1 or 2 enemies at a time and the defender rarely moves. Here, you see 2-3 rushing Neo at once and Neo reacting by either stunning one to fight the other or constantly changing his location to isolate one at a time. Neo is constantly moving to keep his enemies from crowding him so he can re-identify and prioritize the threats
The "Chivalrous Ninjas" effect.
Couldn't agree more
The Smith clones fight scene too!
In stun it's called acting busy and wait for their rythm
Lol so add one person and you are impressed. 🍻
Best part about this, no shaky camera to hide the mistakes. Everyone in these fight scenes performed flawlessly.
Flawlessly kzhead.info/sun/qtibk8WPpauYras/bejne.html
I wonder how long did it take to get these fight scenes to be flawlessly?
problem of american action movies 90% shaky cam ( steady cam ) the asian cinema understood that 30 years early ... and jackie chan to !
@@ascensionne8600 But asian cinema is still so bad....
@@immortanjoe9362 For sure you dont know the good asian movies ;) i'm not sayin it's bad or wrong just sayin they know how to film the action in a movie better than americans*
There's one little moment at 3:11 where Neo, at the end of a swing, blocks an incoming attack without moving his sword; the strength and physical robustness needed to maintain form like that at the end of your own outward movement is incredible. I swear there's hardly a wasted frame in this fight, it's truly remarkable.
amazing
This is one of my favorite fight scenes in this movie. Neo kicks ass like a one man army. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The cut scene in Matrix slo mo of Neo flipping upside down onto the balcony and everyone else defying laws of physics leaping and running after him is like a beautiful, surrealistic painting. Cinematographic solid gold. Always brings me chills to see it.
They played that backwards. He jumped off and did a forward somersault, suspended by cables. They just reversed it.
Check out the making of this scene It’s FANTASTIC
it's stunning :)
when I watched that part at the cinema I smiled at how pretty it looked
My favourite part 👌🏿
The choreography in this scene is second to none. The music, action, moves, the characters, the actors and the angles, everything is absolutely perfect.
Chateau de Rob Dougan was the music..... Was perfect!!!!
Yuen Woo Ping will forever be the Grandmaster of Fight Choreography.
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@@pikachuspartan1868 I would would love to have seen a collaboration between Yuen Woo Ping, Akira Kurosawa, and Roger Deakins: the 10th Dan Grandmasters of Fight Choreography, Directing, and Cinematography ...
Very true. It’s just a shame the script writing was lacking.
"You see he's just a man" Proceeds to do a 20 foot backflip and use telekinesis
Choregraphy, stunts, camera work, editing, sound mixing, music, all absolutely marvelous
One thing that people don't seem to mention often is how lacking the Matrix 4 soundtrack was. All the iconic action scenes from the matrix trilogy not only had amazing fight choreography but also amazing soundtracks as well. The score in these films makes all the scenes feel so much more epic. The highway chase music, the chateau fight music, the burly brawl music, the final fight between neo and smith? epic music = epic fights.
The Matrix Rehashed had no epic fights and thus no need for epic music. For the quad fried Matrix it was fully appropriate to recycle Rage against the Machine’s “Wake Up”. Just Awful.
Thats the thing that separates tiers of films is music. If you want to make a banger it needs to have a good soundtrack.
Meh I liked the more subtle soundtrack given the different tone of the movie
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved-Matthew 24 This is happening Right now we’re in the last days repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand
It has some cool music, but it’s mixed way way down I noticed.
anyone else came here from matrix 4 to bleech their eyes on some good action fighting? Makes you appriciate these movies even more
Just did that. Fuck the new movie sucked so hard. I’m just going to pretend it’s not canon, just like I pretend that the Star Wars sequel trilogy isn’t canon.
i feel ur pain man, goddamn the new movie was such a disgrace, so much political bullshit, had to seriously come back here to appreciate these movies, they'll never capture this vibe ever again
@@bigchune7677 I didn’t get an SJW or woke sense watching it last night. But then again, it almost made me fall asleep multiple times so maybe I was just too bored to realize if it was being woke. I just think it was a terrible movie.
Me
it was meh, it was a shell of the matrix, a bit like experiencing christmas as a kid compared to now
This and and the highway scenes are the most amazing pieces of cinema history.
I saw this in the cinema on its premiere day 20 years ago. I still remember the shakes it gave my 13 year old self
The choreography in this sequence is absolutely insane. One of the best fights in cinema history.
THE BEST
As coreografias do Matrix reloaded de Kung Fu são as mais incríveis já filmadas
The best hands down.
batman’s warehouse fight in BvS is a little better
@@daquanthebroncosfan too dark
Had to come back to this scene after watching the action scenes in Resurrections. The original trilogy was fantastic.
exactly. The hate against the sequels is overblown.
@@Gadget-Walkmen not the sequel but the third one was a bit boring but after seeing resurrections I will not complain
@@keremkuruuzumcu7761 Can't agree that it was "boring" really, it wasn't as good as the first one and didn't venture into deep questions and answers but the stakes were high and the fight scenes were amazing. It's not as amazing as it could have been but it was still awesome to watch.
@@KainsAddiction LMAO hell no. second movie had MORE to it than just simply being a "good action flick" (they're ALL have amazing action in them), there was great world building and great philosophical concepts as well but it wasn't as fleshed out as the first movie like with the architect needed more explanation to him and the visions striking at neo wasn't fleshed out as well.. And the third movie is NOT "aBolUtE lAzY gArBagE" AT ALL as the stakes were high like the fate of zion and had more action focused than the rest, it just didn't strive for philosophy like the first 2 movies.
@@KainsAddiction Jesus Christ, really? "This isnt an insult, but I'm guessing you're 20 at most, judging by your "great philosophical concepts" comment." Are you for real with this terrible reasoning? My age is so irrelevant to ANYTHING to which I'm saying or anything being said that trying to bring it up out of nowhere isn't helping anything to what you're saying. The movie DOES have great philosophical concept, it just wasn't fleshed out as best as it should have as I said. "The final movie was SO lazily written and anticlimactic it was almost sad to watch." It wasn't as "so lazily written" as you and others make it out to be. The movie didn't answer anything significant and seemed more towards the direction of lord of the rings/star wars by having big climatic battles which doesn't exactly fit for this series but I'd say it still was enjoyable to watch as the stakes WERE high in the film but the movie wasn't trying to tackles complex themes, just wrap up a climatic battle which, again, doesn't exactly fit with matrix when it first started. It's a different direction but it wouldn't say it's anywhere near "anticlimactic" at all unless you expected more complex answers which is a fair to expect and get an answer for but the movie was fun/exciting to watch for it's final fights. Nothing about the final moments of the film were "almost sad to watch" either, have NO idea what you're even saying when you say that at all. "Some scenes were downright cringe." Don't know what you're talking about but that's on you as I'm not seeing it.
"You see he's just a man." *Neo proceeds to backflip up 20 ft and literally just use the force to grab daggars 😂
This scene largely holds up all these years later but the guy's reaction at being kicked into the wall at 3:06 makes me laugh lol
Keanu Reeves: "So what exactly can Neo do?" Writers: "Yes"
@@bendunkelman4853 woah, bogus dude
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 but good
matthew david jarvis Facts.
Urgh enough of the stupid yes jokes
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 buy a life, loser
1:40 "All that... For a drop of blood?"
4 drops.
@@vidiveniviciDCLXVI Thanos probably had more than one drop punched out of his face by Stark.
Hardly worth the effort in my mind lol
That's what she said!
Right before the blood dripped, all the programs ACTUALLY LOST FAITH in the fight thinking this guy is beyond the previous "ones"...but when the blood dripped, that's when they got their hope back.
one of the most exciting fight scene in cinema history
That 1 gummy bear I ate when the virus enters my body:
A rare moment in film where EVERY aspect is exemplary. The choreography, the performers, the camera work, the music, the effects, the sound, the set design, the costume design, everything.
simply........a masterwork......its by far 1 of the best fighting scenes in the history of movies, in the past, present and future
Tbh the overacting of some of the actors as they go down is a bit cringey
"You see, he's just man" Neo jumps about 15 feet and does backflip while jumping
Yeah he's just a man my a.. now watch this you fools.
And proceeds to summon the two knifes with the force
@@r9k955 IKR? I wish they had dubbed in the "Force Rumble" when he did that/
Idiotic line. Uh, yeah. Just a man... who stopped a sword with the tip of his palm. Herp derp he can bleed, so I guess that makes him less of a threat somehow.
where's the point? sure he's just a man. I mean, this is my morning routine 🤣🤣
See? He's just a man. Neo: **PROCEEDS TO USE THE FORCE**
It's was time when cinema was pure masterpiece
This is a perfect fight scene. Continuous attacks by all attackers instead of the main character fighting one or two while the others are like 20 feet away waiting to jump in… Each attacker is legit trying to kill Neo and they actually look like they know how to use each weapon, especially the spear dude. Best and most realistic spear handling I’ve seen in any movie this far. This scene was edited well and it really focused on why Neo is the One.
Yes not one movement is wasted, it's one of the best choreographies ever filmed
Neo is not the one. Agent Smith is.
@@--36-- Hahahahaha
2:32 - 2:42
Also, the wire work is exepctional good. No jankiness, no several up and downs, just perfect timing with each jump
Neo: *blocks hundreds of bullets by literally holding his hand up* "Okay, you have some skill."
The other side has two white ghosts who can turn invisible and sink into the floor. So, yeah, some skill.
Block giant sword with bare hand and spills a drop of blood: "you see it's just a man"
The Merovingian was referring to his skill as The One. It can be inferred that blocking bullets like that is a default ability of the One, and having seen and survived other Ones, he's now commenting on Neo like, "alright, you've got the basic movelist. What else?"
The effrontery! Lol.
"Kill him".
"You see he's just a man" Neo: flies up 40 feet, and uses the force.
Watched so many times over so many years - still marvellous
00:33 *The frame that changed the WORLD!*
It would have been cooler if he threw them back, saving a boat load of time.
nsa
33 degrees of Masonry.
@@tadghostal8769 *Cooler?*
I honestly think it was more impressive when he did it in the finale of the first film. This second time is more or less just an escalation of that true classic.
This movie was ahead of its Time
These movies created their own time.
@user name still saying it. The first one was a brilliantly told tale of a dystopian machine society. The other two were over the top action flicks which were so filled with action that the story telling was lost completely and peaked in weird techno-esoterical ramblings of an ai architect.
@user name Who's "we"? Nobody cares what neckbeards think. This movie has aged very well.
9:15 to be exact.
Still is !
Trivia: the man playing as the keymaker is also the surgeon that helped john wick stitch his wounds
Cinema masterpiece!! Always fun to watch
“You see he’s just a man”, a man that can freeze bullets in mid air, can fly, move faster than an agent and come back to life… 🤷♂️
and a man that can use Jedi force powers!? 1:52
just like Jesus
Right after he says that Neo starts flying and lands to the second floor with a backflip lol
Come on. We can take him.
because Neo bleeds those drops of blood it shows he still has at least tiny bit of self doubt, a lack of focus in a way, something that I think has to do with all of humanity.. but such doubt is a vulnerability.. unless Merv knew the greater plan and Neo wouldn't die here. ? 🤔
There needs to be more appreciation of the music in this scene, it really ties it all together.
Because it's so good and fitting you get along to it
Lots of appreciation for the music in these movies. Especially this track and "clubbed to death". It's just not really their time anymore.
I appreciate it bro! It ties it up and keeps the fight escalating as they ascend and descend. Really beautiful choreography
That music really tied the room together
this soundtrack is the most epic in reload.
Sequences edited with rhythm. Man Oh Man!!, current action films can't even compete. I've watched this fight close to 10 times to get the stink off the 4th.
0:17-0:41 I love how it takes less than 30 seconds for Merovingian to be forced to admit he underestimated him 😂
Instant regret
Side order of crow 🤔😂
Neo how's that, Merovingian clearly you are going to give me a whoopin🤣
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