The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - 63 trivia entries

If you listen to the Hundred Smiths fight scene, the sound effects used then Neo uses a Smith to knock down other Smiths are sometimes quite comical. At one point, they use the sound of dominoes falling. In another, they use the sound of a bowling ball making a strike.

Near the beginning of the freeway chase the car containing Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker and the van containing the superb "Twins" pass a billboard. This billboard is advertising steak. Steak was the meal Cypher ate with Smith in the first film. Also if you watch until the end of the credits of the first film you will find that the password for the website www.whatisthematrix.com is steak.

The Architect shows Neo images of the humans that will die if Neo chooses not to go into the Source. Many of those images are from the movie "Baraka." A study of comparative religion, "Baraka" contrasts the purity and beauty of nature and religion with the ugliness and misery of modern technological society. The word "baraka" means "odor of the holy," "fragrance of the divine," "saintly," etc. Interestingly, some of the images that Neo sees are of people who were killed in Nazi and Pol Pot concentration camps, as "Baraka" seems to suggest.

Anyone who was a big fan of the 60's TV show, The Prisoner, will see certain similarities between that and Neo's encounter with the architect. This is probably intentional since, in the first movie, an episode of the Prisoner (with Number 6 ever so appropriately meeting number 2) is playing in the background.

At various times in the movie, Morpheus makes a statement relating to dreams. In Greek/Roman mythology, Morpheus was the name of the god of dreams.

If you have seen "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", pay attention to the fight between Neo and the Oracle's Chinese bodyguard. It has the same exact hits, shots and music of the first fight of CTHD (it is especially obvious when we see both men's legs almost like dancing). A tribute from the directors?

When Neo is meeting the Oracle, as well as when he's fighting the Agent Smiths right after, there are a bunch of words spray-painted on the fence, walls and bench, two of which are "one", spelled upside-down and backwards, and "role", which has to do with everyone having a role, or purpose, to play in and/or outside of the Matrix.

The "code" in the matrix consists mainly of both Western numbers and the Japanese katakana writing (a Japanese script used especially for foreign words). Both were mirrored vertically.

In the street where the super burly brawl takes place, there is writing on one of the buildings, that list floors for that particular structure. they are listed from one at the top, to 5 at the bottom. Also the 4th floor down is Lucifer Securities, another biblical reference.

In hacker terminology, a "backdoor" is a way of getting access to certain areas of sites, or getting access to computers, without being detected. This applies to the endless hall of doors as seen in Reloaded.

When Neo, Trinity and Morpheus arrive at the Merovingian's restaurant, the camera pans left oddly from the main table to show a man walking away, looking over his shoulder at Neo. This man is the father of Seti from Revolutions. Kind of interesting, since in Revolutions, the father mentions his meeting with the Merovingian.

In the highway chase scene, the license plate on the Twins' truck said DE2852. If you look in Deuteronomy 28:52 (NIV), it says, "They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down." This is possibly making reference to the sentinels coming to attack Zion, which up until the end of Reloaded, has been the humans safe haven and their "high fortified walls" against the machines.

This is just fun. When The Architect is speaking to Neo about the different versions of The Matrix, he explains he had to change it "...to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature." At the precise moment he says "grotesqueries", both father and son George Bush show up on the screens. Coincidence? Nah.

Lachy 'Sparks' Hulme from the Matrix Revolutions can be seen in the council meeting scene. He is sitting two seats to the right of Niobe, but was not credited for this.

When the Architect is talking about all the people that will die in Zion, there are clips from TV commercials and other movies on the screens beside/behind him. Among them is a famous black and white clip from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho".

In the scene where Neo has his talk with the Architect you can see scenes from the original Matrix on the TV screens that cover the wall.

In the scene where Neo first meets and sits down with the Oracle. When the camera is behind Neo and Oracle, looking over their shoulders between them, you see a tall, brown fence across the plaza. On one side is written '1300,' on the other is written 'One or 'Neo' (I can't remember which), both in large, white letters. You see '1300' spray-painted on at least three different walls in various ways. First, '1300' is the military time for 1:00, or just one. It is also the year that Dante started his entry into hell in the Inferno. He begins the Inferno with, 'Midway through life's journey I wandered into a dark wood.' The Biblical life's journey lasted 70 years, and since Dante is believed to have been born in 1265, midway through his life would have been the year 1300. Second (and this is really creepy), you will notice that just after Agent Smith shows up, various scenes show that the 'One' or 'Neo' on the same fence as '1300' begins to fade over the next three shots until it completely disappears. It is shortly after the last shot, which shows that Neo's name is gone completely, that Agent Smith starts talking about the possibility that something in Neo got 'written over' something in Smith or vice versa. It is as if Smith's mere presence is trying to over-write Neo's presence, by eliminating him first from their surroundings. I was not able to tell, but I tried to see, after Neo successfully pulled Smith's hand out of his chest, whether Neo's name showed back up on the fence. But I couldn't tell.

Has anyone noticed how when Neo gets yelled at by his boss in the first film, his comments are relevant to the first film and this one? Neo has to make a choice whether he wants to keep his job (stay in the matrix )or leave (be freed from the matrix), that he believes that he is special, that somehow the rules don't apply to him, and then he says, "Obviously you're mistaken." The architect said something like, "If too many started to having doubts about if their world is real, the matrix would break down and they had to start over again." This is more or less exactly what his boss says to him in the beginning, when he mentions something like how this is one of the world's greatest software companies because every single employee is part of a whole. And if one of their employees has problems then so does the rest of the company.

One night on the 2 mile stretch of highway made for the movie, a security guard decided to race his car up and down when no one was around. He did, but he totalled his car and instead of telling anyone, he just ran off and was never seen again. (A little bit of info from Keanu Reeves on an interview on the Tonight Show).

At least two points in the movie the number 101 is shown ... 101 was the apartment number of Neo in the first movie. In addition, the freeway race is on the 101 and the 303 (Neo-1, Trinity-3). In addition, 101 is the binary number for 5. 5 Matrixes have already passed and the current one is number 6.