The Matrix Reloaded/Awesome

Awesome Moments in The Matrix Reloaded include:

"WE ARE STILL HERE!"
The Burly Brawl.
The fight in the Merovingian's chateau between Neo and the Merovingian's goons.
- Neo stopping a sword on the edge of his hand just to show off nearly matches Trinity's "Dodge this" moment from the first movie. That he bled a single drop of blood somehow made that moment even more awesome.
  - Especially that it makes the Merovingian raise an eyebrow, which doesn't sound like much, but it really completes the scene. Also, the bassline kicking in right after that.
Morpheus fighting Agent Johnson on a moving semi. At first, he's only managing to hold his own with difficulty, at one point resorting to grabbing the Agent's tie to stay on the truck. He eventually gets knocked across the back of the truck, flat on his stomach, only to see his katana still stuck in the side after his Stepping Stone Sword earlier. Johnson fastidiously tucks his tie back in, with the most contemptuous look on his face, before moving in for the kill...at which point Morpheus leaps up, sword in hand. Johnson stumbles back, his tie cut neatly in two, while Morpheus performs his classic Bring It stance. The grin is what sells it.
- And that was after taking out the Twins (who were driving an Escalade SUV) with a katana and a Glock 18 in a slow motion maneuver that has to be seen to be believed.
- That entire gloriously OTT sequence was a Crowning Car Chase of Awesome.
Reloaded is arguably a long string of Crowning Moments...until it slammed to a screeching halt when Neo met the Architect. But then you've got Neo saving Trinity, Morpheus' line after the Nebucchadnezzar is destroyed, Neo stopping the Sentinels...
Neo "doing his Superman thing" so fast that everything he passes is either shattered or sucked down the street after him while flying to rescue Trinity.
How this didn't make it here already I don't know, especially considering Morpheus is The Comically Serious.

Smith: I want what you want. I want everything.
Morpheus: *instantly snaps his pistol to Smith's head* Would that include a bullet from this gun?

Ah, but the most awesome moment of all is the most subtle. It goes to the unlikeliest of characters-- the nerdy Keymaker. Trinity's guarding him, and she needs to steal a ride...

Trinity: I need a download to hotwire a motorcycle.
Link: Not a problem, one crash course in motorcycle...
Keymaker: *gives her exactly the key she needs*
Trinity: Wait. Cancel that.

The Twins were underused in this troper's opinion. Effortlessly avoiding almost every attack thrown at them and barely reacting when actually hit. The deadpan sells it. Shot many times in the arm? "Can we move this along?" Forced out of a moving vehicle on the freeway? "We are becoming aggravated." "Yes, we are."

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