The Matrix Reloaded Car Chase (Behind The Scenes) #TBT - Fifth Gear
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Channel: Fifth Gear
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Keywords: The Matrix Reloaded, Keanu Reeves, Matrix Reloaded - Car chase, Laurence Fishburne, CarrieβAnne Moss, Adrian Rayment, Neil Rayment, The Matrix Reloaded - Highway Fight Scene, Fifth Gear, car, review, fast, crash, fifth, gear, Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, Vicki Butler-Henderson, car review, Top Gear, The Matrix, Matrix Behind The Scenes, The Matrix Reloaded Car Chase (Behind The Scenes)
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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)
Published: Thu Feb 19 2015
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It shows. Say what you want about the rest of the movie, as well as Revolutions, but this is one of the coolest action scenes ever.
Almost makes it worthwhile to watch the trilogy with all its flaws if it means I get to watch this scene and the final Neo vs. Mr. Smith fight in the 3rd. Normally I'd stop watching after the 1st, but then I remember those two scenes.
I know there are a few haters out there for the sequels, but I am one of those that enjoys all three movies. This scene in particular is one of my favorites. When the agent jumps from the hood of the Cadillac to that other car and completely crushes it, blows me away every time. Love it.
I was watching clips of that freeway scene recently, and the thing I appreciate the most is how the "players" that are fighting on the freeway do not care about making a huge mess of cars crashing, but the good guys are the only ones that can truly get hurt.
The albino ghost twins can't really get hurt, and the Agents can't get hurt. But Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker definitely can. So you feel like they are taking a risk (the operator even reminds Morpheus how he always said that they were never supposed to get on the highways).
And then things start popping. And it feels like true mayhem. When Trinity is on the speedbike going against traffic, that is probably one of the greatest shots I've ever seen in an action movie. Its better than most video games.
No Michael Bay editing or shaky cam, either. They maintain those shots to see just how badass it looks.
Should have spent the same amount of time on the scene where Neo turns into a gummy man and fights off all the agents
Few thoughts on that.
Despite some of the effects not dating all that we'll, it's still an incredible sequence.
We all know it, but Keanu just seems like the most awesome famous person.
I'd love to see what Gareth Evans could do with seven weeks and millions of dollars to shoot a chase sequence.
Those twins were a little annoying.
Good on Carrie-Ann Moss. Bad ass.
One thing I've never understood is the intense hate for the second movie. Granted, many of the plotlines/characters are pretty dumb, but it has 5 or so of the best choreographed fight scenes ever:
-first scene with neo + smith in the rain. short and awesome
-The teashop fight scene (super short but well executed hand-to-hand fight in a confined space)
-in the lobby of the Merovingian's palace (hand-to-weapon fight with insane wire work)
-this car sequence
-parking garage scene with the twins teleporting everywhere. SO cool
Holy shit, Carrie Ann Moss actually drove that Ducati with another person on the bike through traffic? That is INCREDIBLY badass.
They also built a fake freeway for most of the shots in the Alameda/Oakland area for that scene
The Wachowskys.....are passionate, devoted, and geniuses when it comes to crafting an action scene. If I were given the chance to speak to any director it would be them. I'd ask them: "that really intreresting camera angle, how did you think of that? How do you come up with those amazing concepts?" And talk about anime for hours because CLEARLY that's their stuff.
EDIT: No like...I lowkey want to talk to them...