The Animatrix - Final Flight of the Osiris
Final Flight of the Osiris is the first short on the Animatrix DVD. This is appropriate, because the story helps explain both the Matrix Reloaded beginning as well as the game Enter the Matrix.
 | Final Flight of the Osiris was created by Square Pictures, the people who made the Final Fantasy movie. You can really tell in the graphic work - they do a simply amazing job on the human body. |
They show this off with the first half of the short. In it, a black man and oriental woman are facing off in a Japanese training area, both blindfolded. Each has a long sword. They do a long fighting sequence, each slowly undressing the other by slicing away the clothes without hurting the person. Each takes a small peek at each other near the end of the fight. They are left with barely enough clothes to keep a PG rating.
Suddenly, there is danger, and you realize that these are Thadeus and one of his crew members, Jue. They race their ship, the Osiris, to safety above planet, somewhere they have never been before. It is a desolate wasteland. They see the drilling machines set up to burrow down to Zion and realize they have to warn Zion of this impending attack.
However, like an angry swarm of bees, the machines begin attacking. Knowing that their ship is probably doomed, Thadeus sends Jue into the Matrix, asking her to get this package to a mailbox - to in essence mail it to a post office box so that another group can pick it up later when it's safe. They kiss before Jue goes in, because they know that it's unlikely she will make it out.
Jue goes through some pretty gymnastic feats on her wait to the mailbox, while in the "real world" Thadeus and his crew do a very Star Warsey "Han and Chewy" set of firing at the incoming machines. There are simply too many, though. Soon the various crew members have been killed, and the ship goes down. Jue gets the package into the mailbox, and is picking up her cell phone to call Thadeus when the Osiris is destroyed. She drops to the ground, dead.
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