The "Agent Smith Moment", occasionally shortened to ASM, is a term coined to describe a certain type of event in a movie, especially big-budget action movies; specifically, an Agent Smith Moment is when a character notices and recognizes their own imminant death and becomes aware that there is nothing they can do to stop it. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... Jump to: navigation, search Movie poster for Die Another Day, the 20th James Bond movie. ...

Origin of the Term

The name comes from a scene in the 1999 film, The Matrix, in which the character Agent Smith is interrogating Morpheus in a high level of an office tower, when a helicopter rises to the window, and Neo takes aim with a mounted vulcan cannon. A mere second passes between Smith realizing Neo is about to open fire, and Neo actually firing. Even with his literally superhuman abilities, there is nothing he can do to stop Neo before he fires the gun. Rather than waste effort trying anyway, Smith merely stands there and mutters "No." Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Matrix is a film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (Andy and Larry). ... From www. ... Morpheus in The Matrix Revolutions Morpheus as he styled himself inside the Matrix Morpheus is the name of a fictional character (played by Laurence Fishburne) in the science fiction films, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Neo is the name of the central fictional character from the movie The Matrix and its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. ... Mounted Vulcan The 20mm M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically driven, six-barreled, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling gun with an extremely high rate of fire. ... A superhuman is something exceeding normal human standards. ...

Since then, the term has been applied to many films with moments such as these. Another example can be found near the end of The Last Starfighter, as a disabled starship crashes into a moon. The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction movie or its subsequent novelization that year by Alan Dean Foster, or a video game based on the movie. ...