20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Matrix
13. Neo Doesn't Kick
Despite the rigorous months of training required to complete the film, Keanu Reeves entered pre-production while still recovering from severe neck surgery. This meant that while he was able to learn a lot of the choreography, he was without full use of his legs and sat out the bulk of the kicking training.
This required some alterations to the film and, as a result, Neo uses far fewer kicks than the other characters in the movie. In fact his only real flurry of them comes in the construct training fight with Morpheus, which was filmed near the end of production.