What Makes Agent Smith One Of The Most Terrifying Villains In Film History

The Matrix will forever be one of the most groundbreaking movies ever made. It's new approach to story telling, effects, and character made The Matrix a timeless classic. But as much as our main character Neo drives the story, the main villain Agent Smith is what brings it all together. Agent Smith is one of the most terrifying and chilling villains in film history, and his story through the Matrix Trilogy will cement it forever.

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Written by Adam Smith
Edited by Nick Murphy

[Rampala]

Weaving is just absurdly talented. I mean, he carried "V for Vendetta" and we never saw his face the entire film!

[SaurianStudios]

Agent Smith’s line “Human beings define their reality through misery and suffering” always gives me chills every time I listen to it, because it sums up the character of Agent Smith as a cold-blooded, remorseless and unfeeling AI virus who absolutely hates humans, believing them to be defined by its worst mistakes and behaviors. Hugo Weaving did an excellent job playing a truly terrifying and captivating villain.

[GingerZombie]

His restraint says "I could destroy you with one punch, but I don't want to ruin my suit".
Also, I think that cold calmness is more threatning than yelling or what have you.
Hugo Weaving is a great actor. His weird, almost alien line delivery is eerie.

[transformersrevenge]

I have always loved how Smith is the Antithesis of Neo, who is the thesis, and them merging is the answer (synthesis). But it's so cool how Neo and Smith are both the Wild cards, who go against their purpose. Especially Smith, in how he is the actual key in creating the peace. Him becoming an all-powerful villain, really helped set up the conditions to end the war. Also, a few other fun things I noticed are that Neo is One, while Smith is the many. And Neo becomes less and less emotional and more stoic with each movie, while Smith keeps hamming it up and acting more and more human. Smith killed Neo, who was reborn, then Neo killed Smith, who was also reborn. Smith works with the machines at first, before becoming a threat to the matrix. Neo is a threat to the matrix, before working with the machines to remove the threat. Even their core ideology is the opposite (Faith vs Nihilism). A lot of Ying-Yang stuff going on between them. Basically, it's an amazing cinematic rivalry, with a great ending..

[bradley]

It was Smith's envy of free will that hit me the most when he was interrogating Morpheus.

[kumabear]

Hugo Weaving is a highly underrated actor. He is one of those artists who “ becomes” the character they portray. He wasn’t just Hugo “playing” agent smith. He WAS agent smith. He wasn’t just acting as Elrond. He WAS Elrond

[DarknessProphet]

5:06 Another very important change in Smith's appearance is that his glasses have become slightly more rounded.
All agents wear rectangular glasses while the awakened programs and humans wear ones which are rounded.

[thatfelladownunder]

Hugo Weaving is a legend. He did a small film after he did the Matrix and LOTR blockbusters as a favour to a director who helped him early in his career. I was an extra in that film for a week (Peaches) so got to see him interact with we “little people”. All round good guy and great actor.

[masterknife]

He plays a machine and yet he's the best actor in the entire film

[SamGiles]

Hugo Weaving was the perfect choice for this role. His performance was nothing short of extraordinary, whilst truly making the character his own. He was the type of villain that left a significant lasting impression, and very much amplified the cinematic experience.

[Nick]

I always find his fight with Morpheus the scariest scene in the film. We already know Morpheus is a great fighter after his fight with Neo. Probably the best fighter in the real world! So to see him not just loose but loose badly to Smith who doesn’t even flinch when hit, it really drives home the point these machines, especially Smith, are no joke!

[nickkuzinski]

when he interogates Neo, "and you help your landlady carry out her garbage" that almost amused look that he shakes off just in time to not violate the character of Agent Smith... priceless, my favorite line from the movie.

[harborwolf]

"It's the smell!"

The delivery of that line is... so good.

[Crimson]

Smith is exactly how Ultron should’ve been

[Josh-ntzg]

The way he always goes “Mr. Anderrson” always gets me

[JeffreyDeCristofaro]

One of the ultimate villains of cinema - cold, calculating, ruthless, difficult to beat and/or destroy, but not without a sociable personality and certain approach to life all his very own. Period.

[Xegethra]

I like how he also hates the Matrix, because he is trapped in it just as much as the people are. And rather than team up with the people to escape, he resents them for being necessary for the Matrix to survive.

[ProfessorArt]

The most scary thing about smith is that even before he is "set free" from the system we see how human he really is. He's unpredictable unlike a simple program.

[leadpaintchips]

TBH I find Smith the scariest in the first movie, just because of how calm he is even with his 'slipup' when he was interrogating Morpheus. When that level of anger and disgust is _quiet_, that's when the truly horrendous is going to go down. When he started yelling and raving it just lessened the threat for me. He was focused, methodical, ruthless and _righteous_ in the first movie, which is just terrifying in someone who hates that deeply.

[carsontodd]

If I'm not mistaken, Hugo Weaving is also a stage actor. And from what I've noticed those types of actors bring something that your typical Hollywood actor can't. Idk what it is or how to describe it, but it really adds to the movie/TV.