300 Cars Wrecked and $2.5 Million Spent on One of the Most Expensive Action Scenes in Cinema

Modern cinematic history is filled to the brim with memorable scenes. The Matrix trilogy is a perfect example of how a movie can have some great sequences that made the viewer sit on the edge of the seat.

However, it should be remembered that many times what we see on the screen cost a huge amount of work and, above all, money. Such is the case with the highway scene in The Matrix: Roloaded, where the Wachowski sisters rose to the challenge. The undertaking for those times, however, consumed a huge amount of money and required incredible resources.

It cost more than $2.5 million to record the scene in which Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker are chased by agents on the highway. What was the reason for such a high cost? Mainly because the filmmakers had to construct a stretch of road measuring two kilometers on which the scene was shot. Having three lanes in each direction, the road was located on the old runway of NAS Alameda in California, USA. What's more, the whole thing was surrounded by a 20-meter wall (via Sensacine).

The car chase would not have been so impressive without the cars themselves. It is worth mentioning that the scene was not filled with CGI vehicles. Instead, General Motors donated 300 cars, none of which survived to the last day of filming (via Forbes).

The result enabled Matrix Reactivation to take second place when it comes to films with the most vehicles destroyed. However, it fell quite far short of the leader. The honorable first place is occupied by the third part of Transformers. In Michael Bay's movie, more than 500 cars were scrapped, all of which were either way headed for the scrap heap.

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