The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American-Australian science fiction
action film, the first sequel to The Matrix, and the second installment
in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers.
It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and
went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters 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. The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released on May 15,
and a collection of nine animated shorts, The Animatrix, which was
released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the film.
The Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six
months after Reloaded, in November 2003.
Plot
Six months after the events of the first
film, Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) are now
romantically involved. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) receives a message
from Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) of the Logos calling an
emergency meeting of all of Zion's ships. Zion has confirmed the last
transmission of the Osiris: an army of Sentinels is tunneling towards
Zion and will reach it within 72 hours. Commander Lock (Harry Lennix)
orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare for the onslaught, but
Morpheus asks one ship to remain in order to contact the Oracle (Gloria
Foster). The Caduceus receives a message from the Oracle, and the
Nebuchadnezzar ventures out so Neo can contact her. One of the Caduceus
crew, Bane (Ian Bliss), encounters Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), who takes
over Bane's avatar. Smith then uses this avatar to leave the Matrix,
gaining control of Bane's real body.
In Zion, Morpheus announces the news of the advancing machines to the
people. Neo receives a message from the Oracle and returns to the Matrix
to meet her bodyguard Seraph (Collin Chou), who then leads him to her.
After realizing that the Oracle is part of the Matrix, Neo asks how he
can trust her; she replies that it is his decision. The Oracle instructs
Neo to reach the Source of the Matrix by finding the Keymaker (Randall
Duk Kim), a prisoner of the Merovingian (Lambert Wilson). As the Oracle
departs, Smith appears, telling Neo that after being defeated, he
refused to be deleted, and is now a rogue program. He demonstrates his
ability to clone himself using other inhabitants of the Matrix,
including other Agents, as hosts. He then tries to absorb Neo as a host,
but fails, prompting a battle between Smith's clones and Neo. Neo
manages to defend himself, but is forced to retreat from the
increasingly overwhelming numbers.
Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity visit the Merovingian and ask for the
Keymaker, but the Merovingian refuses. His wife Persephone (Monica
Bellucci), seeking revenge on her husband for his infidelity, betrays
him and leads the trio to the Keymaker. The Merovingian soon arrives
with his men. Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker escape, while Neo holds
off the Merovingian's servants. Morpheus and Trinity try to escape with
the Keymaker on the freeway, facing several Agents and the Twins, the
Merovingian's chief henchmen. Morpheus defeats the Twins, Trinity
escapes, and Neo flies in to save Morpheus and the Keymaker from Agent
Johnson. In the real world, 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 to prevent a security
system from being triggered, and the crew of the Vigilant must destroy a
back-up power station. The Logos succeeds, while the Vigilant is bombed
by a Sentinel in the real world, killing everyone on board. Although
Neo asked Trinity to remain on the Nebuchadnezzar, she enters the Matrix
to replace the Vigilant crew and complete their mission. However, her
escape is compromised by an Agent, and they fight. As Neo, Morpheus, and
the Keymaker try to reach the Source, the Smiths appear and try to kill
them. The Keymaker unlocks the door to the Source, allowing Neo and
Morpheus to enter and escape from the Smiths, but the Smiths kill the
Keymaker while he tries to close the door to the Source. Neo enters a
door and meets a program called the Architect, the Matrix's creator.
The Architect explains that Neo is part of the design of the sixth
iteration of Matrix, designed to stop the fatal system crash that
naturally occurs due to the concept of human choice. As with the five
previous Ones, Neo can choose either to return to the Source with his
unique code to reboot the Matrix and pick survivors to begin to
repopulate the soon-to-be-destroyed Zion, or cause the Matrix to crash
and kill everyone connected to it; combined with Zion's destruction,
this would mean mankind's extinction. Neo learns of Trinity's situation
and chooses to save her instead. As she falls off a building, he flies
in and catches her, then by somehow phasing his hand into her body he
removes a bullet from her body and restarts her heart. Back in the real
world, Sentinels destroy the Nebuchadnezzar. Neo displays a new ability
to disable the machines with his thoughts, but falls into a coma from
the effort. The crew are picked up by another ship, the Hammer. Its
captain, Roland, reveals the other ships were wiped out by the machines
after someone activated an EMP too early, and that they found only one
survivor afterwards—revealed to be the Smith-possessed Bane.
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