I know this is an underappreciated part of this movie, but my hat's off to Ian Bliss's acting abilities. He pulled off a perfect impersonation of Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith here, and that is why they casted him.
According to Wikipedia, Ian Bliss was hand picked for this role by the Wachowskis because of his ability to mimic Hugo Weaving. After seeing this, that was a brilliant call.
@@TyrBarghest It’s normally the same person screaming abuse when there’s a vid with someone playing a bit rough with their pet even though the pet is clearly having fun and is unharmed.
same. Jonathan Groff is a decent actor (I love him in Mindhunter) but his Smith impression just misses the mark for me too. I thought he'd fit more as the new Architect or Merovingian when seeing him in the trailers but Smith was the last person I'd think he'd play
the "I can see you" is in the exact same tone as when he said "no" when he stopped the bullets. Its like he has this enlightened zone he goes to when he undeerstands something in this world.
@@ublade82 No he doesn't. He usually keeps within a fairly narrow range but his range isn't zero. I actually misremembered how he delivered this line, because there are other ways he could have delivered it, because he _doesn't_ always use the same tone.
Well I am pretty sure he watched Hugo Weavings performance and practiced. Weaving did not have to say those lines this actor said, he just needed to study and get down the ticks and mannerism of Hugos performance and he did a great job.
@le Hoarderz Al-Shekelsteins no shit. I’m just saying, I wonder if they worked together in order to get it to sound authentic, and I was complimenting how well he did the impression.
It's true. It makes you realize how ridiculous the fights in the matrix are, with no consequences. A few punches in the real world are much more dramatic. It's like the difference between the light sabre fights in the original Star Wars and then all the CGI flipping around in the prequels.
@@Pavel-wj7gy Nooooo. It isn't!!!! I am sick of people saying that. Neo can see Smith because he is connected to the source. That's why he was able to force the Sentinels to shut down and see the city of Machines. He can't see inside Niobe's ship or Trinity because they aren't connected.
@Jul W what kind of argument is that? Just because you have CGI doesn’t mean you have to make fights a bunch of flipping. And yes movies aren’t real, thank you
« Look through the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemy » 2 minutes later : burns the soft gelatine of these dull cow eyes and gives him the ability to see his enemy even more obviously
This guy played Smith far more beliavable than the actor from Resurrection. If they really wanted to bring back Smith's character and Hugo wasn't available, then Wachovsky should've recast this guy.
Exactly what I thought. That would be a millions time more interesting that what we got with that pseudo Agent Smith from "Resurrections ". This actor right here perfectly captured the essence of the character. Watching this scene I really believed that I'm watching Agent Smith in another body.
Hugo... was available - he's a main character in the film. They didn't "replace" him, they needed Smith (an AI with no physical form) to have physical form - he takes over someone's body. edit sorry im dumb - i thought you said "reloaded" - for a moment I forgot there was another sequel lol
when that Smith from Ressurection just scream MR. ANNNDDERSSONNN! it's just makes me cringe and at the same time cries, like they just ruin his character from the previous trilogy. The Matrix franchise def went downhill and share the same fate as Terminator, what was once an incredbile blockbuster turns into a cash grab Hollywood woke agenda
It shows at 4:30 that Neo closed his 'Human Eyes' and is able to see with 'Machine Eyes' it later shows how Neo can see the Machine City the way Machines see it. It looks beautiful to them; wires are their trees and electricity is their air. it's their form of Nature.
Neo is a cyborg. Maybe all humans in the matrix have to be. They need extra hardware to interface with the machines and a little code fed in to the right human might just activate some machine senses.
It's a symbolic, mystic mean. It shows you that to understand universe you have to think energy, not matter. To feel and see love, Light rather than dark, you have to close your eyes about material world, in order to see energy of life. Machine city looks like cold world when you see it in the film, like you feel your environement sad, but through Neo's eyes you see beautiful lights. If you change your mind about whats around you, you change how you feel
@gab hug that's what mean... Change your mind to see opportunities to evolve against your problems, rather than see doom and darkness. To see in darkness. Switch on the Light
I suspect the gold color is the key. Entities that are a part of the Matrix are green code and can't exist outside of it. Entities with golden code can travel between the Matrix and the real world and see both of them as code. When Smith got the eyes of the oracle his code turned golden and allowed him to exist in the real world.
It is a metaphor for the use of the 3rd eye and the elevation of humanity the closer we are to God. All through the bible God says don't trust your eyes, close your eyes and so on. That's because in Eden, Adam and Eve saw the world in energetic form through the 3rd eye and only when they ate the forbidden fruit, they opened the eyes we now use. The pineal gland, also know as the 3rd eye, is activated when we close our eyes. He's not a cyborg he's just coming closer and closer to God. Let us give our lives to Jesus and let Him teach us how to have this holy experience.
The Agent Smith monologues in these movies are sooooo fucking good. The dialogue and writing is just perfect: "look past the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemy... blind messiah... etc, etc."
The fact Smith is now a living virus within the Matrix and has overwritten/imitate Bane’s red pill digital conscious is a chilling thought if you watch both Reloaded and Revolutions like dozens of times to understand.
@@jybrdls3647 When you take the red pill, you’re able to be jacked off from the Machines control. Thus, be get in and get out. However, your mental project of your digital self still remains. Think of it as a human cognition
Dude, I screamed in theatre when thanos said it " that's Smith line!" And got booed! Goddamn millennials,they didn't experience a lot of masterpiece from our time
Neo: "Who are you?" Smith/Bane: "I don't know, Mr. Anderson, who is the only person who keeps calling you 'Mr. Anderson' and refuses to call you anything but 'Mr. Anderson?'"
Honestly man, Ian Bliss deserved an award. First for the accent and then for the acting ability that goes so far beyond just a convincing impression and is eerily identical to the master that is Hugo himself.
She successfully isolated the Smith infection so that it/he couldn't possibly spread into the ship or into Zion. Then Neo handled the dirty part of the job.
I used to think Reloaded and Revolutions weren't on par with the 1st Matrix. And they're not, but after watching Resurrections, they've become masterpieces.
@@guilhermehank4938 Movies don't become masterpieces when a bad sequel comes out. The star wars prequels still suck even though the new ones also suck. Don't deify a piece of shit because there are smellier ones, it's still a piece of shit.
@@actingempty3108 compared to the reboots/sequels of today (minus no way home), the sequels/prequels of old are amazing even if they have bad acting and/or shitty sfx.
For Matrix Ressurrections, they should cast an actor like this who mimics perfectly Hugo Weaving acting like the new Smith. I really couldn't take Jonathan Groff's performance serously.
@@justkev1044 I can understand that. I honestly didn’t have a problem with his performance. He still portrayed himself as a menacing would be villain. The kind that Smith would embody.
I mean, the idea of a programing ENTERING the human flesh is so outrageous, its easier to believe that the dude had a mental breakdown or identity crisis after heavy injuries to the head. I mean, the dude had blood damn near SHOWERING his head.
Or Neo is trying to buy time and doing whatever comes to mind to keep Smith talking. If you are ever confronted, keeping the other person engaged in conversation means they are less likely to do anything other than talk.
1:34 - 1:55 that is literally the essence of Hugo's Agent Smith utter disdain towards human being perfectly captured expression delivered by Ian Bliss. Gets me goosebump everytime he spit after that lines.
for real I hate that ! when a villain says they are inevitable they die like I want to see a villain who says he’s inevitable actually is inevitable for once lol
This sequence had far more excitement (I still get my adrenaline going when I watch it) than any of the scenes from the 4th movie. The "I can see" moment when we learn Neo's vision extends beyond the Matrix and into the real world is such an exciting moment. Not to mention, of course, having a real actor actually playing a convincing Agent Smith. It's like sometimes directors need to look back at their previous work and learn from theirselves.
The problem is, the fact that Smith can leave the Matrix and Neo still has powers in the real world proves that the real world is not actually the real world, just another layer of simulation.
@@theredscourge Nope that's just a theory. Neo asked the Oracle this question. The Oracle tells Neo he is connected to the source even after leaving the Architect's room. Which explains why Neo can kill the Sentinels in the real world. basically a wireless connection.
@@theredscourge the simulation happens in our perseption: the 'real' world is materially real, yes, but we perceieve it by the map we were given - that Zion is a resistance, that Machines' goal is to destroy it, that there is some sort of conflict and leverage between the sides. But it is a simulation. It's not about affecting the laws of physics but our minds.
In my opinion it's the best fight in the series except the one in the train station when Neo defeated Smith for the first time and a few others in the original Matrix, purely because without all of supernatural abilities Matrix could have granted them it feels a lot more grounded and brutal.
Yes, exactly. All the flipping around with no consequence is just like watching a TikTok dance. But when people have weight and have to move with the laws of physics, the fights feel real and brutal and like there is a consequence from them.
@@dnajournal4321 haha I can go toe to toe with you . The 4th film failed in so many ways , even compared to 2nd and 3rd film . It was cheap , bad casting , weird rants .. awful production effects (trailing motion effects ? That was cool for a second 20 years ago when I was doing TV production in highschool LOL )….
@@kane5445 Even the first movie had "weird rants" to people with low thinking abilities. "What this Morpheus guy talking about? Fight again please. Pew pew pew. Haha women in red dress. Wow so cool she said dodge this bang pew pew". The movie had the same original creators behind it. Unlike Terminator 3 and onwards, which were actual abominations, there was legit continuity here. You need to subscribe to the Matrix Explained youtube channel - most people are upset with the 4th movie because it didn't have as many "pew pew pew action scenes" that they wanted. (Deliberate spelling mistakes above cause YT keeps censoring me).
I think that's supposed to be representative of Smith disintegrating. Bane probably had a severe skull fracture and died of a traumatic brain injury, but there's no way Neo could him hard enough to explode his head and evaporate his entire body lol
Honestly I find this one to be really underrated, maybe it’s not as philosophical as the other two in the trilogy but it doesn’t have to be, it’s the big climatic battle, it’s what we’ve been building towards since the beginning
i expected mass effect 3 to be something like this and oh boy was it disappointing. in london fight you see like 2 enemies on screen max, no vehicles, no allies beside the obvious ones. and "smith" was replaced with random anime ninja
It isn't that Ian Bliss did a dead on Hugo Weaving, it's that he was able to capture the menace that Weaving exuded as Agent Smith, maybe in a way surpass it.
This movie had some messy writing but ultimately it had some really great moments, like this scene for instance. It seems that movies everyone hated a few years ago are getting more love now. Which proves one simple thing: The quality of movies is rapidly dropping, what was bad 10 years ago is considered decent today.
I find my appreciation for movies & TV I thought was mediocre many years ago keeps going up when I "rewatch" them via RUclips clips, then back down to what I remember when I try to rewatch the whole thing... The algorithm ranking which highlights are best is nature's editor.
0:01 the moment he called him Mr.Anderson he should've realized who he was...only Smith and the boss of Neo's company in the Matrix ever addressed him that way.
@@cornpop3159 uhmm...no? Morpheus literally tells him : " welcome to the real world" when they get Neo on the ship After he gets unplugged from the Matrix in the First movie.
4:12 If you look closely the shadow covers his eyes the same way Mr. Smith's glasses look and it looks as though it's actually him standing there for a brief moment
I loved the fact that HW was involved with the Matrix and LOTR movies around the same time. Truthfully, when he was doing Elrond's dialogue in LOTR, I was picturing how he would use the Agent Smith version of his voice. [MISTER Frodo...] I bet HW's family also get a kick out of the fact he has been in two major movie franchises. Good on you, Hugo, and G'day!
i like to think this is Neo using his 3rd eye. you know how you can just tell when someone doesn’t have good energy in their heart & you don’t need eyes to see or feel that
I feel like Neo should have figured out who Bane really was much more quickly in the conversation. Literally nobody outside the Matrix ever called him "Mister Anderson".
yea nowadays they would use some sort of voice and face synthetizer that takes the actor and adds some effects to it. how this does it without technic is uncanny
First time watching it in cinema was a shocking experience. Smith in real world - „wow, good one”. They fight - „Yeaa, kick his ass!”. Neo loses eyes - „OMG what was that!??”. Neo blindly tries to find Smith - „now how you gonna beat him?”. Neo avoids hit like he still sees - „What?”. Fire Smith - „Whaaaat??!”. Neo decapitates him - „wow, so brutal :0”. Everything was just perfect in this scene.
I know the sequels get a lot of grief, but I think they’re amazing. Always have. This guy’s mimicry of smith is 100%. Haven’t watched resurrection, and never will.
There are things what The Matrix Resurrections lacks on compared to the first three Matrix films, The Animatrix and games: - narrative story that’s connected to all three movies - the horror vibes of simulations and machines controlling humans (as Agent Smith described them as a virus). - the Kung fu fights - bullet time VFX - “Guns, lots of guns.” - interesting side characters - inclusive songs from different rock and tencho bands - mind blowing thoughts of what is real and what is a dream (or simulation) - Neo’s growing power of the One What else am I missing? Let me know as you reply this comment.
Resurrection doesn't even look like a matrix movie. It lacks of the atmosphere that was built in the previous movies and the plot is really poor. The whole film is about unplugging trinity. She and smith should have never been back, their characters died. I thought they would have brought carie ann moss only for playing trinity IN THE MATRIX as a program reconstruction to control neo in the matrix itself, but they somehow brought her back in the real world as well as turning her in a sort of "one" beside neo... horrible choice.. .The interpretation of smith and morpheus was really close to be PATHETIC... they had nothing of the original characters... The fights coreographies are also poor compared to original trilogy...It just looks like the movie didn't want to be taken serious anymore, looks like a parody of the matrix... I waited so many years to watch what i can address as a huge flop...so sad.
Just notice that the choreography here looks more dirty, like a real fight in the real world with rudimentary take dawns. In the Matrix every fight looks more artisic, sophisticated, physhcs breaking
It makes you realize how ridiculous the fights are when they're plugged into the matrix, with no consequences. A few punches in the real world are much more dramatic. It's like the difference between the light sabre fights in the original Star Wars and then all the CGI flipping around in the prequels.
I like the theory that "the real world" is a back-up matrix for rebels. It makes sense, explains how supernatural things like seeing without eyes are possible. The only time such theory seems good to me
I think the new smith nailed it... It's you people that are alwaya rejecting innovations and changes... How do you want the world to change from this shithole if you can't even accept a change in a movie sequel?
It's true the weak don't survive alone. That's why humanity is important to protect the weak. It's a balance to keep people humble and to care about others. While helping the weak to be secure. It's a balance that help's everyone weak and strong. Only a non living organism can see the weak as useless. How can a machine understand compassion towards others?
Lotta folks not liking resurrection. I enjoyed it. I don’t feel it lived up to the first trilogy, for various reasons, but still a movie I’d watch again. Though, I didn’t care much for the actor they cast as agent smith.
![Smith visiting The Oracle | The Matrix Revolutions [Open Matte]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zBR2LlutVRM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Neo vs Machines | The Matrix Revolutions [Open Matte]](/img/1.gif)
I know this is an underappreciated part of this movie, but my hat's off to Ian Bliss's acting abilities. He pulled off a perfect impersonation of Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith here, and that is why they casted him.
Bliss’s acting was blissful, blessed.
I agree.
The delivery was so identical. The only reason you'd know it was a different actor is that the voices were different.
Waay better than the new guy. Sheesh
As a kid I genuinely was under the impression that they just got Hugo to grow out a beard, he was that good.
According to Wikipedia, Ian Bliss was hand picked for this role by the Wachowskis because of his ability to mimic Hugo Weaving. After seeing this, that was a brilliant call.
yeah would have been nice if he was used in the matrix 4 for as smith even though he obviously died in this movie.
@@eazye26boy I honestly wished they had brought all the characters back to play background extras throughout Matrix 4.. Lil easter eggs...
He’s not that good. I feel like most capable actors could do a decent agent smith impression
@@mikecantreed There's always that one person.
@@TyrBarghest It’s normally the same person screaming abuse when there’s a vid with someone playing a bit rough with their pet even though the pet is clearly having fun and is unharmed.
Dude the fact that they failed so bad to capture smiths aura in resurrection but bane performed it wonderfully is beyond mind blowing
God what a waste. That whole movie. And smith was basically “im a totally different young guy... but im smith i swear”
I watched the trailer only and it felt like a netflix movie lmao
lol "MISTER ANDERSOOOOOON", what a gigantic fail
@@VlaDuZa didn't he called him "Thomas" the whole movie?hahah. Resurrection was a terrible movie lol
same. Jonathan Groff is a decent actor (I love him in Mindhunter) but his Smith impression just misses the mark for me too. I thought he'd fit more as the new Architect or Merovingian when seeing him in the trailers but Smith was the last person I'd think he'd play
the "I can see you" is in the exact same tone as when he said "no" when he stopped the bullets. Its like he has this enlightened zone he goes to when he undeerstands something in this world.
That is an astute observation that I myself hadn't really thought about.
Holy crap you're right, it's the exact same delivery.
His character always has the exact same tone
@@ublade82 No he doesn't. He usually keeps within a fairly narrow range but his range isn't zero. I actually misremembered how he delivered this line, because there are other ways he could have delivered it, because he _doesn't_ always use the same tone.
I agree and furthermore to your point, neo also says "I can feel them" in that sorta tone at the end of reloaded with the sentinels giving chase
He does such a good impression of Hugo Weaving it’s ridiculous. I wonder if he recorded Hugo saying those lines and just mimicked them.
Well I am pretty sure he watched Hugo Weavings performance and practiced. Weaving did not have to say those lines this actor said, he just needed to study and get down the ticks and mannerism of Hugos performance and he did a great job.
It's possible that they had Hugo Weaving run the scene once or twice first
@le Hoarderz Al-Shekelsteins no shit. I’m just saying, I wonder if they worked together in order to get it to sound authentic, and I was complimenting how well he did the impression.
@le Hoarderz Al-Shekelsteins learn how to be nice.
I like how Hugo Weaving based his Agent Smith's speaking off of Carl Sagan
I like how this fight is more grounded and realistic because they're not in the Matrix and they really do have to abide by the laws of physics here.
It's true. It makes you realize how ridiculous the fights in the matrix are, with no consequences. A few punches in the real world are much more dramatic. It's like the difference between the light sabre fights in the original Star Wars and then all the CGI flipping around in the prequels.
True. But the fact that Neo can see Smith in 'real world' is indicative of another layer of the matrix.
@@SparkTheGenius Prequels have the best choreography
@@Pavel-wj7gy
Nooooo. It isn't!!!!
I am sick of people saying that. Neo can see Smith because he is connected to the source. That's why he was able to force the Sentinels to shut down and see the city of Machines. He can't see inside Niobe's ship or Trinity because they aren't connected.
@Jul W what kind of argument is that? Just because you have CGI doesn’t mean you have to make fights a bunch of flipping. And yes movies aren’t real, thank you
That acting is phenomenal. His mannerisms are on point with Hugo weaving.
the sentence about being trapped in a stinky meatsuit is also a parallell to the guy who wanted the bluepill again while eating steak.
« Look through the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemy »
2 minutes later : burns the soft gelatine of these dull cow eyes and gives him the ability to see his enemy even more obviously
He din't see that coming
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This guy played Smith far more beliavable than the actor from Resurrection. If they really wanted to bring back Smith's character and Hugo wasn't available, then Wachovsky should've recast this guy.
Exactly what I thought. That would be a millions time more interesting that what we got with that pseudo Agent Smith from "Resurrections ". This actor right here perfectly captured the essence of the character. Watching this scene I really believed that I'm watching Agent Smith in another body.
That would've been a good idea provided his character didn't get his head caved in with a tire iron
Hugo... was available - he's a main character in the film. They didn't "replace" him, they needed Smith (an AI with no physical form) to have physical form - he takes over someone's body.
edit sorry im dumb - i thought you said "reloaded" - for a moment I forgot there was another sequel lol
I thought the same thing.
when that Smith from Ressurection just scream MR. ANNNDDERSSONNN! it's just makes me cringe and at the same time cries, like they just ruin his character from the previous trilogy.
The Matrix franchise def went downhill and share the same fate as Terminator, what was once an incredbile blockbuster turns into a cash grab Hollywood woke agenda
It shows at 4:30 that Neo closed his 'Human Eyes' and is able to see with 'Machine Eyes' it later shows how Neo can see the Machine City the way Machines see it. It looks beautiful to them; wires are their trees and electricity is their air. it's their form of Nature.
Neo is a cyborg. Maybe all humans in the matrix have to be. They need extra hardware to interface with the machines and a little code fed in to the right human might just activate some machine senses.
It's a symbolic, mystic mean.
It shows you that to understand universe you have to think energy, not matter.
To feel and see love, Light rather than dark, you have to close your eyes about material world, in order to see energy of life.
Machine city looks like cold world when you see it in the film, like you feel your environement sad, but through Neo's eyes you see beautiful lights.
If you change your mind about whats around you, you change how you feel
@gab hug that's what mean...
Change your mind to see opportunities to evolve against your problems, rather than see doom and darkness.
To see in darkness. Switch on the Light
I suspect the gold color is the key. Entities that are a part of the Matrix are green code and can't exist outside of it. Entities with golden code can travel between the Matrix and the real world and see both of them as code. When Smith got the eyes of the oracle his code turned golden and allowed him to exist in the real world.
It is a metaphor for the use of the 3rd eye and the elevation of humanity the closer we are to God. All through the bible God says don't trust your eyes, close your eyes and so on. That's because in Eden, Adam and Eve saw the world in energetic form through the 3rd eye and only when they ate the forbidden fruit, they opened the eyes we now use. The pineal gland, also know as the 3rd eye, is activated when we close our eyes. He's not a cyborg he's just coming closer and closer to God. Let us give our lives to Jesus and let Him teach us how to have this holy experience.
-Hello, Mr. Anderson.
-I don't know you. Who are you?
-HELLO. MISTER. ANDERSON
You call that A *Meme?*
"Not to bright, though..."
The Agent Smith monologues in these movies are sooooo fucking good. The dialogue and writing is just perfect: "look past the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemy... blind messiah... etc, etc."
###triniti
I like that Agent Smith's digital-spirt-code-ghost-projection still has sunglasses.
That's what I thought too!
The fact Smith is now a living virus within the Matrix and has overwritten/imitate Bane’s red pill digital conscious is a chilling thought if you watch both Reloaded and Revolutions like dozens of times to understand.
What do you mean by banes red pill digital conscious?
@@jybrdls3647 When you take the red pill, you’re able to be jacked off from the Machines control. Thus, be get in and get out. However, your mental project of your digital self still remains. Think of it as a human cognition
@@a.jthomas6132 you can just say unplugged. Jacked off kind of has another meaning
i thought the pills were just symbolic
@@sherbershlemel6937 in the film, they say that the red pill allowed them to disconnect and locate people from the matrix.
Smith basically pulled over "I'm inevitable" card way before It's time
Dude, I screamed in theatre when thanos said it " that's Smith line!" And got booed! Goddamn millennials,they didn't experience a lot of masterpiece from our time
@@serenity9260 , I did. I am a millennial and immediately understood the reference.
@@serenity9260 Only retards scream (and clap) in the theatre... shut your fucking mouth while watching a movie you and others have payed to see.
@@str8manballtouch949 what a sad life u have
@@serenity9260 he kinda has a point
Neo: "Who are you?"
Smith/Bane: "I don't know, Mr. Anderson, who is the only person who keeps calling you 'Mr. Anderson' and refuses to call you anything but 'Mr. Anderson?'"
Honestly man, Ian Bliss deserved an award. First for the accent and then for the acting ability that goes so far beyond just a convincing impression and is eerily identical to the master that is Hugo himself.
2003-Damn he plays Smith really well.
2021-Damn, he plays Smith?
This guy, Ian Bliss should have been Smith’s new avatar in Matrix Resurrections rather than Jonathan Groff
Thats exactly what i thought, his looks are also just like Hugo Weaving too
Bro also got the hairline right....
Really??! WELL.......
Agent Smith owns the word “ inevitable “
i’ll admit thanos is good competition but you’re right
Funny because both their enemies went for the head.
I n e v i t able, Mr. Anderson.
@@fryingpanstan4596 please, Thanos doesn't even come close to be as good as Smith
@@michaelkeaton5394 why so?
I love how Trinity's plan was turn off the lights and then sit there and wait for Neo to win.
Maybe you were joking here... but she was locked in there. LoL
Women 😂😂😂
She successfully isolated the Smith infection so that it/he couldn't possibly spread into the ship or into Zion. Then Neo handled the dirty part of the job.
I used to think Reloaded and Revolutions weren't on par with the 1st Matrix. And they're not, but after watching Resurrections, they've become masterpieces.
Suddenly the matrix sequels will go the way of the star wars prequels after Ressurections
@@guilhermehank4938 Movies don't become masterpieces when a bad sequel comes out. The star wars prequels still suck even though the new ones also suck. Don't deify a piece of shit because there are smellier ones, it's still a piece of shit.
@@actingempty3108 go do your movie if you are so knowledgeable. All the three movies were masterpieces.
Are you referring to SW or the Matrix?
@@actingempty3108 compared to the reboots/sequels of today (minus no way home), the sequels/prequels of old are amazing even if they have bad acting and/or shitty sfx.
For Matrix Ressurrections, they should cast an actor like this who mimics perfectly Hugo Weaving acting like the new Smith.
I really couldn't take Jonathan Groff's performance serously.
He said he doesn’t want to do a weaving impression
@@justkev1044 then he shouldn't have played Smith at all
@@glonk1535 ikr
Which is good, overall. Just having the same character and experience would belittle the meaning of the film.
@@justkev1044 I can understand that. I honestly didn’t have a problem with his performance. He still portrayed himself as a menacing would be villain. The kind that Smith would embody.
It still took Neo too long to catch on. Even after the 3’rd or 4’th “Mr. Anderson” he still asked “Who are you?” 🤦🏻♂️
"...not to bright though"
I mean, the idea of a programing ENTERING the human flesh is so outrageous, its easier to believe that the dude had a mental breakdown or identity crisis after heavy injuries to the head.
I mean, the dude had blood damn near SHOWERING his head.
Or Neo is trying to buy time and doing whatever comes to mind to keep Smith talking. If you are ever confronted, keeping the other person engaged in conversation means they are less likely to do anything other than talk.
Because a program possessing a body in reality was so impossible for him that he didn’t even think about that possibility
@@pepi88 too* 🤦♂️
1:34 - 1:55 that is literally the essence of Hugo's Agent Smith utter disdain towards human being perfectly captured expression delivered by Ian Bliss. Gets me goosebump everytime he spit after that lines.
Whoever plays Banes deserves an Oscar!
Thanks that was me. Feel free to PayPal me as I’m stuck in Jerusalem with low battery on my phone
Ian Bliss
@@borris3768 sure how about are $500😂
He impersonates smith 10 times better than that new actor in M4.
No one gets an oscar just for one scene alone, moron
When a villain says he's inevitable, be sure that he'll soon face his end.
Something about him losing his head and disintegrated gives you something to think about…
i get a feeling theres a huge easter egg here thats a throwback to this...remember when thanos said "you should've went for the head"?
for real I hate that ! when a villain says they are inevitable they die like I want to see a villain who says he’s inevitable actually is inevitable for once lol
“Pride cometh before the fall”
@@MaDNeSS1116 That was destiny fulfilled. 😉
This sequence had far more excitement (I still get my adrenaline going when I watch it) than any of the scenes from the 4th movie. The "I can see" moment when we learn Neo's vision extends beyond the Matrix and into the real world is such an exciting moment. Not to mention, of course, having a real actor actually playing a convincing Agent Smith. It's like sometimes directors need to look back at their previous work and learn from theirselves.
The problem is, the fact that Smith can leave the Matrix and Neo still has powers in the real world proves that the real world is not actually the real world, just another layer of simulation.
@@theredscourge Nope that's just a theory. Neo asked the Oracle this question. The Oracle tells Neo he is connected to the source even after leaving the Architect's room. Which explains why Neo can kill the Sentinels in the real world. basically a wireless connection.
@@theredscourge the simulation happens in our perseption: the 'real' world is materially real, yes, but we perceieve it by the map we were given - that Zion is a resistance, that Machines' goal is to destroy it, that there is some sort of conflict and leverage between the sides. But it is a simulation. It's not about affecting the laws of physics but our minds.
Ian Bliss’ acting as Agent Smith is leagues ahead of the person in Matrix : Regurgitations.
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that title, lmao
The matrix relubicated
"look through the soft gelatin of these dull cow eyes and see your enemies" damn that line goes hard
3:24 that was such a dick move, I remember watching this as a kid and crying when Neo got blinded and kinda disfigured by the cables
This guys performance, his impersonation of Smith, is ridiculously good
In my opinion it's the best fight in the series except the one in the train station when Neo defeated Smith for the first time and a few others in the original Matrix, purely because without all of supernatural abilities Matrix could have granted them it feels a lot more grounded and brutal.
Yes, exactly. All the flipping around with no consequence is just like watching a TikTok dance. But when people have weight and have to move with the laws of physics, the fights feel real and brutal and like there is a consequence from them.
So many good fight scenes but yea this one and the subway scene are probably the top 2
I have a new found appreciation for the trilogy after watching the horrific 4th one
Indeed, the absence of lawrence and hugo was felt a lot, both being very important characters in the plot of the trilogy
Right? That movie was a giant disappointment. I love Keanu and Carrie Anne Moss but that movie is garbage.
That movie was an abomination. Holly fuck.
@@dnajournal4321 haha I can go toe to toe with you . The 4th film failed in so many ways , even compared to 2nd and 3rd film . It was cheap , bad casting , weird rants .. awful production effects (trailing motion effects ? That was cool for a second 20 years ago when I was doing TV production in highschool LOL )….
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Even the first movie had "weird rants" to people with low thinking abilities.
"What this Morpheus guy talking about? Fight again please. Pew pew pew. Haha women in red dress. Wow so cool she said dodge this bang pew pew".
The movie had the same original creators behind it. Unlike Terminator 3 and onwards, which were actual abominations, there was legit continuity here.
You need to subscribe to the Matrix Explained youtube channel - most people are upset with the 4th movie because it didn't have as many "pew pew pew action scenes" that they wanted.
(Deliberate spelling mistakes above cause YT keeps censoring me).
That guy got the Hugo Weaving-Smith talk down perfectly.
This guy's acting is spot on.as a kid I knew immediately that this was Smith because the acting was perfect
" I can see you." Goosebumps, my boi. Goosebumps.
No one ever comments about the fact that Neo straight up CRUSHES Bane's head with that pipe! Brutal as hell!
I think that's supposed to be representative of Smith disintegrating. Bane probably had a severe skull fracture and died of a traumatic brain injury, but there's no way Neo could him hard enough to explode his head and evaporate his entire body lol
@@adamb89 exactly
Ian Bliss doesn't does get enough recognition for this. Incredible actor
Honestly I find this one to be really underrated, maybe it’s not as philosophical as the other two in the trilogy but it doesn’t have to be, it’s the big climatic battle, it’s what we’ve been building towards since the beginning
i expected mass effect 3 to be something like this and oh boy was it disappointing. in london fight you see like 2 enemies on screen max, no vehicles, no allies beside the obvious ones. and "smith" was replaced with random anime ninja
It isn't that Ian Bliss did a dead on Hugo Weaving, it's that he was able to capture the menace that Weaving exuded as Agent Smith, maybe in a way surpass it.
Still, all these years later, the blinding gets to me. When something happens to someone's eyes, it's always very disturbing to me
i got my eyes burned by hot grease splashing in them
One of the worst pain I experienced
took a week for my vision to return to somewhat normal
Great writing and the music is impeccable.
This movie had some messy writing but ultimately it had some really great moments, like this scene for instance. It seems that movies everyone hated a few years ago are getting more love now. Which proves one simple thing: The quality of movies is rapidly dropping, what was bad 10 years ago is considered decent today.
I find my appreciation for movies & TV I thought was mediocre many years ago keeps going up when I "rewatch" them via RUclips clips, then back down to what I remember when I try to rewatch the whole thing...
The algorithm ranking which highlights are best is nature's editor.
Ian Bliss doing a tremendous Hugo Weaving impression
0:01 the moment he called him Mr.Anderson he should've realized who he was...only Smith and the boss of Neo's company in the Matrix ever addressed him that way.
Its not the human world.... its another Matrix.
@@cornpop3159 uhmm...no? Morpheus literally tells him : " welcome to the real world" when they get Neo on the ship After he gets unplugged from the Matrix in the First movie.
@@kuroroluxifer8321 Morpheus is Blue Pilled. The movie treats "You", the audience as Blue Pilled.
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A theory.... And a wrong one at that.
Seriously. He got called "Mr. Anderson" three times and still asks "Who are you?". LOL
4:12 If you look closely the shadow covers his eyes the same way Mr. Smith's glasses look and it looks as though it's actually him standing there for a brief moment
He did good at doing smiths voice
I always found it strange how long it took Neo to realise he was Agent Smith 😂
Bc it was believed that agents were unable to escape to the real world
@@TkrzTT I don't even know if the machines knew that agents could escape. That would be like your Norton antivirus downloading into a person.
DVDも持ってて何度も見てるんだけどこんなシーンあるの忘れてたよ！
Damnnnnnnn son. The way Keanu looks him up and down slightly and says it.... bonechilling !!!! 4:27
the way he immediately switches up upon seeing that neo is blinded and takes it as an opportunity to monologue is perfect
I loved the fact that HW was involved with the Matrix and LOTR movies around the same time. Truthfully, when he was doing Elrond's dialogue in LOTR, I was picturing how he would use the Agent Smith version of his voice. [MISTER Frodo...] I bet HW's family also get a kick out of the fact he has been in two major movie franchises. Good on you, Hugo, and G'day!
And Ian Bliss did a GREAT job of mimicking HW's vocals. I wonder how he would have done as Elrond Half-Elven...?
The only way I was able to tell this was smith in the movie was his dead on acting sounding just like smith. Crazy.
That dude impersonated Smith perfectly!.
i like to think this is Neo using his 3rd eye. you know how you can just tell when someone doesn’t have good energy in their heart & you don’t need eyes to see or feel that
He had a connection to the source. A connection with all the machines. He could feel them and see them even without sight.
Amazing movie. So ahead of its time, people will watch it a hundred years from now and take notes.
Not impossible... INEVITABLE 😎
I like how when Neo “sees” Smith, his nose is broken, nice little detail there.
1:08 - For a super intelligent AI he sure was an idiot stopping to talk to Neo here.
He pulled off a creepily, eerily accurate Hugo. He should do a magic elf movie next!
I feel like Neo should have figured out who Bane really was much more quickly in the conversation. Literally nobody outside the Matrix ever called him "Mister Anderson".
Great Hugo Weaving impression.
Watching Neo trying to figure out that Bane is Agent Smith is like watching Anakin trying to figure out that Palpatine is the Sith Lord
do Harry Potter next
2:25
One of the COLDEST lines i will remember for life 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
Being a Kenshi fan from Mortal Kombat and after watching this scene really made me think he would be the perfect Kenshi for live action
4:43
Me: what…. What did you do?
Neo: I went for the head!!!
It took me a minute to realize that this Smith is not the same actor, after learning that this guy made a really good impression
yea nowadays they would use some sort of voice and face synthetizer that takes the actor and adds some effects to it. how this does it without technic is uncanny
Trinity's neck injury keeps healing and reappearing.
First time watching it in cinema was a shocking experience. Smith in real world - „wow, good one”. They fight - „Yeaa, kick his ass!”. Neo loses eyes - „OMG what was that!??”. Neo blindly tries to find Smith - „now how you gonna beat him?”. Neo avoids hit like he still sees - „What?”. Fire Smith - „Whaaaat??!”. Neo decapitates him - „wow, so brutal :0”. Everything was just perfect in this scene.
I know the sequels get a lot of grief, but I think they’re amazing. Always have. This guy’s mimicry of smith is 100%. Haven’t watched resurrection, and never will.
Neo = *D A R E D E V I L*
4:13 such a subtle detail, but you can see Agent Smith's face here for a split second
There are things what The Matrix Resurrections lacks on compared to the first three Matrix films, The Animatrix and games:
- narrative story that’s connected to all three movies
- the horror vibes of simulations and machines controlling humans (as Agent Smith described them as a virus).
- the Kung fu fights
- bullet time VFX
- “Guns, lots of guns.”
- interesting side characters
- inclusive songs from different rock and tencho bands
- mind blowing thoughts of what is real and what is a dream (or simulation)
- Neo’s growing power of the One
What else am I missing? Let me know as you reply this comment.
Resurrection doesn't even look like a matrix movie. It lacks of the atmosphere that was built in the previous movies and the plot is really poor. The whole film is about unplugging trinity. She and smith should have never been back, their characters died. I thought they would have brought carie ann moss only for playing trinity IN THE MATRIX as a program reconstruction to control neo in the matrix itself, but they somehow brought her back in the real world as well as turning her in a sort of "one" beside neo... horrible choice.. .The interpretation of smith and morpheus was really close to be PATHETIC... they had nothing of the original characters... The fights coreographies are also poor compared to original trilogy...It just looks like the movie didn't want to be taken serious anymore, looks like a parody of the matrix... I waited so many years to watch what i can address as a huge flop...so sad.
The third movie was fantastic. Showed the war for machines and had a great ending
So you wanted the same thing again as you have seen before?
@@Lightningspeed992 Completely agree. Pretty much summarized my huge disappointment for the 4th horrible Matrix.
The transgender brothers ruined the movie
Man I don't think 2 hated each other than these 2. The hate Smith had for Neo was too funny lol. Brilliant acting man.
better smith than whatever the hell that guy in ressurections was doing
Just notice that the choreography here looks more dirty, like a real fight in the real world with rudimentary take dawns. In the Matrix every fight looks more artisic, sophisticated, physhcs breaking
It makes you realize how ridiculous the fights are when they're plugged into the matrix, with no consequences. A few punches in the real world are much more dramatic. It's like the difference between the light sabre fights in the original Star Wars and then all the CGI flipping around in the prequels.
Definitely
I disagree, I enjoyed this scene but the ones inside Matrix are more impressive to me.
I like the theory that "the real world" is a back-up matrix for rebels. It makes sense, explains how supernatural things like seeing without eyes are possible.
The only time such theory seems good to me
Why couldn't the new Smith actor at least try to sound like this?
Exactly
I think the new smith nailed it... It's you people that are alwaya rejecting innovations and changes... How do you want the world to change from this shithole if you can't even accept a change in a movie sequel?
@@IdeaSeeker
Because it was literally one of the worst movies I've EVER seen dude... And I don't say that lightly.
@@IdeaSeeker just because it's a change doesn't mean it's a good one
Because if everything was just covered in nostalgia porn, everyone would still complain about it and call it unoriginal.
Seeing these recent comments let’s me know I’m not alone in this recommendations of classic movies
"It's not over, Mr. Andersen. It's not over."
SLASH
Yes it is, for you anyway.
Cool and perfectly man. Thank you for your fantastic work and fjlm👆👈👌👍💯🙏✌️
It's true the weak don't survive alone. That's why humanity is important to protect the weak. It's a balance to keep people humble and to care about others. While helping the weak to be secure. It's a balance that help's everyone weak and strong. Only a non living organism can see the weak as useless. How can a machine understand compassion towards others?
Crazy how much this scene feels different in open matte format. The original makes it feel a lot more claustrophobic.
4:28 When Neo becomes "Daredevil"
Bro's cookin
That's a fantastic Agent Smith impression!
Im grateful for Ressurections. It makes me appreciate 2 and 3 so much more.
AI that can possess a human! Thought provoking indeed!!!
Is this the conversation that Neo replies to at the end?
“It’s inevitable”
I like how the sunglasses are part of Agent Smith's being.
Mr. Anderson (says the only character whose ever called him by that name since the first movie)..... hmm "I still don't know who you are!"
The actor is superb, but I wish he'd been more expressive with his eyes. That's the one noticeable difference between him and Weaving.
Lotta folks not liking resurrection. I enjoyed it. I don’t feel it lived up to the first trilogy, for various reasons, but still a movie I’d watch again. Though, I didn’t care much for the actor they cast as agent smith.
"Not impossible. Inevitable." goes so hard.
The only thing that’s impossible here is how long it takes Neo to realize its agent smith.
He probably realized it, he just didn’t want to believe it.
Concepts in thus movie went over so many people's heads. Even new
Man I realy wanted the new matrix movie to be as good as these three. It didn’t do it for me sadly
Drink every time he says Mr Anderson and watch what happens
This was the wildest/most provoking part of the Matrix sequels. Where 'computer viruses' can hijack a living host and become real life terrorists.
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Greatest triology of all-time!!! The 4th one should have never been made!!