10 Movie Scenes Everyone Skips
10. The Zion Rave - The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded may offer up plenty of action-packed bang for your buck, but it also features one of the strangest sequences you'll ever see in a $150 million blockbuster.
And we're not even talking about that damn scene with the Architect (Helmut Bakaitis) near the end.
The film's first act features a bizarre rave montage, featuring the residents of Zion as they dance the night away moments after Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) has informed them that they face probable death at the hands of the Machines.
Set to some undeniably funky music from Fluke, the scene is an interminable slog filled with offputting slow-motion shots of greasy bodies writhing together and flinging their sweat all over one another.
To make matters worse, this is cross-cut with a decidedly un-sexy sex scene between Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss).
While you can argue the scene serves the purpose of showing the Zionites' humanity in even the most torrid circumstances, it mostly just feels like padding between action sequences - in a movie that's 138 minutes long, no less. Skip, skip, skip.