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Arius: Your father appears to be cooperating. You will be back with him soon. Won't that be nice?
Jenny: Not as nearly as nice as watching him smash your face in.

[Matrix has thrown a pipe through Bennett]
Matrix: Let off some steam, Bennett.

Sully: Here's twenty dollars to get some beers in Val Verde. It'll give us all a little more time with your daughter.
Henriques: Heh.
Matrix: You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix. You did.
Matrix: I lied.

Matrix: Where is she, Sully?
Sully: Kiss my ass!
Matrix: I can't hear you!
Sully: I'll say it a little louder, get fucked!
Matrix: [holds Sully upside-down over a cliff by his leg] Listen, loyalty is very touching. But it is not the most important thing in your life right now! But what IS important is gravity! I have to remind you Sully, this is my weak arm!
Sully: You can't kill me Matrix! You need me to find your daughter!
Matrix: Where is she?
Sully: I don't know. But Cooke knows, I'll take you to where I'm supposed to meet him!
Matrix: But you won't.
Sully: Why not?
Matrix: [holds the hotel key he stole from Sully that Cooke is staying at] Because I already know. Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix! You did!
Matrix: I lied.
[Matrix releases Sully, who falls to his demise]

Cindy: Can you tell me what this is all about?
Matrix: Yeah, a guy I trusted for years wants me dead.
Cindy: That’s understandable. I've only known you for five minutes and I want you dead, too.

Cooke: You scared, motherfucker? Well, you should be, because this Green Beret is going to kick your big ass!
Matrix: I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I'm very hungry!
Cindy: [hiding under a table] I can't believe this macho bullshit...

Bennett: Sully will make sure you get on the plane, Henriques will stay with you, make sure you get off. i don't hear from either one of them, she's dead.
Matrix: How much are they paying you, Bennett?
Bennett: They offered me a hundred grand. You want to know something? When I found out I could get my hands on you, I said I'd do it for nothing.
Henriques: Hey hold it!
[Henriques and Sully grabs Matrix]
Matrix: I'll be back, Bennett.
Bennett: John... I'll be ready, John.

Bennett: [after he shot Matrix] John! How's your arm John?
Matrix: [hidden behind a wall] Come over and find out!
Bennett: No thanks, I think I'll take a pass. John, stick your head out, one shot, right between the eyes, I'll make it quick, just for old time sake.
Matrix: Bennett, stop screwing around and let the girl go, it's me that you want, I only have one arm, you can beat me!
[Bennett laughs]
Matrix: [Comes out from hidden place] Come on Bennett, throw away the chicken shit gun, you don't just want to pull the trigger, you want to put the knife in me, and look me in the eye, and see whats going on in there when you turn it, thats what you want to do, right?
Bennett: I can kill you John!
Matrix: Come on, let the girl go, just between you and me, don't deprive yourself of some pleasure, come on Bennett, lets party!
Bennett: I can beat you, I don't need the girl hahah, I DON'T NEED THE GIRL!
[throws Jenny away]
Bennett: I don't need the gun John. I can beat you. I DON'T NEED NO GUN!
[Pulls out his knife]
Bennett: AND I'LL KILL YOU NOW!

Bennett: [On his way to kill Jenny Matrix, and seeing explosions outside] Welcome back John! So glad you can make it!

Bennett: [on his way to kill Jenny Matrix, tries to open the door, and the knob fells off, Bennett smashes the door open] You little BITCH!
Bennett: [He enters the room, saw a hole in the wall] Errr... GOD!
Bennett: [He looks through the hole, saw Jenny fled, Bennett hurled his way through the wall to chase Jenny Matrix] Catch... YOUUUUU !

Matrix: Don't break radio silence until they see me.
Cindy: How will I know?
Matrix: Because all fucking hell is going to break loose.

Matrix: [after killing a man in the plane] Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.

Soldier: Slitting a little girl's throat is like cutting warm butter.
Bennett: Put the knife away and shut your mouth.

Gen. Kirby: Keep on the airwaves and let me know if you hear anything unusual.
Soldier: I'll keep at it. What are you expecting?
Gen. Kirby: World War Three.

Biggs: Attention all units, emergency on theater level, suspect six foot two, brown hair. He is one gigantic motherfucker.

[Cooke aims a gun at Matrix]
Cooke: Fuck you, asshole!
[Cooke squeezes the trigger, but the gun clicks empty]
Matrix: Fuck *you*, asshole.

Cindy: What happened to Sully?
Matrix: I let him go.

Cindy: These guys eat too much red meat.

Bennett: John, I'm not going to shoot you between the eyes. I'm going to shoot you between the balls.

[Plane will not start]
Matrix: Come on, you piece of shit. Fly or die.
[Plane starts up]
Matrix: Works every time.

Gen. Kirby: Leave anything for us?
Matrix: Just bodies.

Cooke: Where's Sully?
Cindy: In the shower.
Cooke: Who are you?
Cindy: Room service.

[Cindy uses a rocket launcher]
Matrix: Where did you learn how to do that?
Cindy: I read the instructions.

Bennett: I really love listening to your little piss-head soldiers trying to talk tough. They make me laugh. If Matrix was here, he'd laugh too.

Arius: Mr. Bennett, my soldiers are patriots.
Bennett: Your soldiers are nothing. Matrix and I can kill every single one of them
[click]
Bennett: in the blink of an eye. Remember that.
Arius: Are you trying to... frighten me?
Bennett: I don't have to try. When Matrix finishes the job, he'll be back for his daughter. Now whether she's alive or dead doesn't matter. Then he'll be after you. Now the only thing between you and Matrix...
[points to himself]
Bennett: is me.
Arius: It is you that is afraid, Mr. Bennett. YOU are afraid of Matrix.

Bennett: Of course. I'm smart. But I have an edge; I have his daughter.

Matrix: We'll take Cooke's car. He won't be needing it.

Cindy: You don't even have a car.
[Matrix pushes Sully's overturned car back upright]
Matrix: Now I do.

Cindy: You steal my car, you rip the seat out, you kidnap me, you ask me to help you find your daughter which I very kindly do, and then you get me involved in a shoot out where people are dying and there's blood spurting all over the place, and then I watch you rip a phone booth out of a wall, swing from the ceiling like Tarzan, and then there's a cop that's going to shoot you and I save you and they start chasing me. Are you going to tell me what's going on or what?
Matrix: No.

Stewardess: Any carry-on luggage?
Matrix: [pointing to Henriques] Just him.
Henriques: [to Matrix] Open your mouth again and I'll nail it shut.

Matrix: A guy I trusted for years wants me dead.
Cindy: I've only known you five minutes and I want you dead, too.

Matrix: Come on, Bennett, throw away that chicken-shit gun. You don't just want to pull a trigger. Put the knife in me and look me in the eye and see what's going on in there when you turn it.

[while talking to a bunch of pretty ladies]
Biggs: Wanna see me kick some ass?

Lawson: I was afraid you'd miss me!
Cooke: Dont worry, we won't.
[Cooke and his partner execute Lawson]

Diaz: Mellow out man. We can't talk business with you waving guns in people's faces. Your daughter is safe, Colonel. Now whether she stays that way is up to you. My people, they got some business with you. And if you want your kid back, then you gotta co-operate, right?
Matrix: Wrong!
[shoots Diaz between the eyes]

Cooke: You know what I like best about this car? The price.
[Cranks up the car and backs up]
Forrestal: Wait a minute! You can't do that in here!
[Cooke speeds up and runs over Forrestal]

[Matrix declines an offer to resume his unit]
Matrix: This was the last time.
Gen. Kirby: Until a next time.
[pause]
Matrix: No chance.

Matrix: [reading about Boy George in a pop magazine] Why don't they just call him Girl George? It would cut down on the confusion.
Jenny: Oh, Dad, that is so old.
Matrix: Ha Ha. You know when I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive.
[thinks and smiles]
Matrix: Maybe they were right.

Gen. Kirby: Me and your dad have to talk for a minute
Jenny: Yeah Got a warrant?
Gen. Kirby: [sarcastically] Very funny!

Sully: You know i've got something I'd really like to give you.
Cindy: I'm not interested!
Sully: Ahh, you don't know what you're missing
Cindy: Well from here it looks like a nightmare, will you please leave me alone!
Sully: You fucking whore

Arius: Do you remember me Colonel?
Matrix: I remember you. Scumbag. Especially the people you've tortured and killed.

Arius: Now that I have you, you will do exactly as I tell you.
Matrix: Fuck you.

Cindy: Where are we going?
Matrix: Shopping.
Cindy: Shopping?

Matrix: What's wrong?
Cindy: This isn't a plane... i t's a canoe with wings.
Matrix: Well, then, get in and start paddling.

Matrix: Keep an eye out, they'll be coming. You're downwind, the air currents might tip them off
Jackson: Downwind?
[looks at Matrix like he's crazy]
Jackson: You think I could smell them coming?
Matrix: I did.

Matrix: Bennett! I thought you were...
Bennett: Dead? You thought wrong. Ever since you had me thrown out of your unit, I've waited to pay you back.
Bennett: Do you know what today is Matrix?... Pay day!

Bennett: John, I feel good. Just like old times. What's it feel like to be a dying man? You're a dead man, John!
Matrix: Bullshit!

Matrix: [pulling Sully out of the telephone booth] You son of a bitch!

Matrix: All I care about is Jenny.

Sully: This place used to be good for hunting slash.

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