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Originally Posted by Wormius
I don’t think “bullet time” aged as well as it could have. It was cool at the time though. Plus one scene in the later movies with the thousands of Agent Smiths looked really off.
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Why watch the later movies, they're not good.
As for the effects in the first one, the main reason I feel it holds up so well is that the effects are used with so much thought. Or I guess you could just call it good writing and directing. What really makes a great special effect is not just the quality of the effect, but how well it works with the moment in the story. Bullet time looks very CGI (like it always did), but it's such a great beat in the story that it doesn't matter when you're watching the movie. It's good enough for what it needs to be at that moment.
When you strip the scene out of the movie and remove the story context, then the technical deficiency starts to be noticeable.