Corrected entry: When neo is talking to the Council member because they both can't sleep, the Council member mentions that he doesn't like sleep, and has been sleeping for 11 years so he figures he'd make up for the lost time, this would mean that he was plugged in. But there is no plug in the back of his head, and its not in his hair. (00:17:00)
Corrected entry: During the freeway chase sequence, Morpheus is fighting against an Agent on the top of a truck. Morpheus wards him off pretty well considering that he got his guts kicked out by Agent Smith in the first movie. Quite a progress in contrast to Trinity who while fighting against an Agent in the skyscraper gets herself thrown around like a doll and even takes a bullet in the belly. It's never explained why Morpheus has suddenly become so powerful.
Correction: Agent Smith in the first film was the premier Agent, the strongest and fastest and most powerful of them all. Something else to keep in mind: Morpheus only managed to do so well against Agent Johnson because he had a weapon, giving him much more of an edge in hand-to-hand combat. Even so, he gets flung around quite a bit himself and the end result is the same: he still loses the fight.
Corrected entry: When Neo is fighting the three agents at the meeting he knocks the last one into a street lamp. When he hits it the bulb falls and the bulb stays lit the whole fall down.
Correction: When Neo knocks the Agent against the street lamp, what falls down isn't the actual bulb, but the thick glass that covers it. The bulb remains in its place, and the glass falls down, appearing to be producing a light of its own, when it's actually just reflecting the light coming from above.
Corrected entry: At the end of The Matrix, Neo puts on his sunglasses and looks up. He then just flies. In The Matrix Reloaded, he always crouches as if he is about to start speed skating and causes the ground to ripple around him, whereby he then jumps and does his "Superman" thing (as Link puts it).
Correction: At the end of the Matrix, he looks up and the camera zooms away into the sky. He had time to do his crouching routine before jumping in the air.
Corrected entry: In the freeway chase where the agent jumps on the front of the car causing it to flip once he jumps off, we see a shot of the car landing on its roof and there is no one in the car.
Correction: Watch the trailer in slo-mo. The driver is in the car and pushed backwards by the force of the flipping/crashing. In the cinema, it happens too quickly to notice the driver.
Corrected entry: When Trinity is about to jump down with the keymaker to the bikes in the freeway scene, she is on the left side of the keymaker. When you see them in mid-air, she's suddenly to the right of him.
Correction: Trinity leaped forward and to the right. Because she made a stronger leap than the Keymaker, who is considerably less athletic, the first two shots show her rapidly passing him in mid-air. By the time the camera shifts to the low-angle shot, she is far enough out in front of him so that she actually appears to be to the right when they are seen from directly behind and from a low angle.
Corrected entry: In the freeway chase scene one of the twins is shooting at the Cadillac to his left. They are separated by one lane and the twin has a clear shot. Both cars then pull up to another car traveling in the middle lane and the twin's shot is blocked by this tan SUV. The twin decides to shot through the tan SUV and you see blood sprayed on the windshield. In the next shot you see all three cars from the front and the tan SUV flips over forward. There is now no blood on the SUV's front windshield.
Correction: There's no blood sprayed on the windshield at all. The red color on the windshield that you see in the shot from the side is visible even before the Twin fires. It's a reflection from the outside, which of course would not be visible from a different camera angle.
Corrected entry: During the entire time that Trinity and Morpheus are being shot at by the twin in the car, we never see him reload his gun, despite the fact that he fires about 350 shots at them from one clip. It can't be due to them being able to bend the rules of the matrix, as eventually he runs out of ammo, looks at the gun in disgust and ditches it.
Correction: Just because we never SEE him reload his gun doesn't mean that he didn't do it at all. There are any number of times when the camera cuts away from him; he could have been reloading during any of those.
Corrected entry: When Neo and Trinity leave the elevator in Zion and people go talk to Neo, Trinity leaves but Neo asks her to wait. There is a very tall guy behind Trinity while she speaks. When she turns around there is nobody there.
Correction: In the wide shot of her stepping away, there is a man with a ponytail standing to her left, that is the man who was previously behind her.
Corrected entry: In the first movie we are told that the clouding of the sky eliminated all life on earth because of the lack of sun - so why are Trinity, Neo, Morpheus and Link able to calmly step out of their ship before it explodes, as there would be no air to breathe without plants?
Correction: Two Theories: The original movie never said that clouding of the sky eliminated all life on Earth. Both the original Matrix and The Animatrix state that the sky was clouded by humans to block out sunlight, so that machines would not have access to solar power. So techically the air could still contain enough of the proper gases to allow humans to breathe. Secondly, In Matrix Reloaded, we learn that the machines have been aware from the beginning of the existence of Zion and humans outside the Matrix, and they in fact allow it as a way to protect the anomaly that allows the Matrix to function and remain compatible with the plugged-in humans. In this case, perhaps they produce the oxygen?
Corrected entry: In the Chateau where Neo fights the Merovingian's men, after the men shoot at Neo, only to have their bullets stopped, they all drop their guns. Throughout the rest of the scene, the guns are nowhere to be found.
Correction: Wrong. The tommy gun ends up near the edge of one of the black squares on the floor; another rifle ends up near the edge of the curl at the end of the left staircase; still another one ends up at the base of one of the statues; the others can be seen in several shots during the fight. Not a single one of them disappears.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Trinity is speeding away with the Keymaker, how can the Ducati be slower than the cop cars which are obviously gaining on her? It can't be due to traffic - when she's on the hard shoulder, with completely empty space in front, the cops are still alongside.
Correction: Cop car speed aside (a constant source of debate), why would Trinity put the Keymaker in that kind of peril? She was obviously trying to find a way to keep the police at bay, not outrun them.
Corrected entry: Right after the explosion with which Morpheus finishes off the Twins,Trinity voices concern over Morpheus' well being by calling his name. But Link replies by saying that Morpheus is all right and asks Trinity to keep moving. How were they able to speak to each other without using that all important mobile phone? They weren't already connected, because in the very next shot you see Trinity ring up the operator asking for a download on how to hotwire a motorcycle.
Correction: They don't talk to each other. Trinity just say it and Link is sitting in front of the monitors watching it like a movie and just says it like other people would say it.
Corrected entry: After Morpheus slices the car the Twins are in, you see the car skidding to a stop. The camera cuts back a fraction before the car actually stops, but it's obviously moving very slowly. However when you see the car in the next shot, it's flipping over. There is no way that its minimal momentum would have flipped the car, cut with a sword or not.
Correction: The shot was, as was much of the movie, in extreme slow motion. It appeared that the truck did not have sufficient momentum to flip, but when the scene cut back it was closer to normal speed.
Corrected entry: As in the first film, the Agents are firing .50 caliber Desert Eagles. The Agent in the police car fires several shots that hit the car door right next to Trinity. A shot from a Desert Eagle would not only go through the car door, it would probably go through Trinity and hit Morpheus as well.
Correction: Not necessarily. The Desert Eagle also comes in a .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum model. Also dependant on whether or not the bullet would go through the door is load amount (how much gun powder is used to propel the round), the grain weight of the bullet, and what type of bullet (full metal jacket, hollow point, lead tipped, ect...) Not to mention the physical characteristics of the Cadillac's door.
Corrected entry: This happens in the scene in which Trinity is about to leap off the window, and she runs across an office while an Agent fires at her. Although the side walls of the office are far away from Trinity, the agent hits a LOT of objects that are close to the wall (desks, cabinets, etc). You can see that on the side shots. Considering the distance of the target and the fact that it's an Agent, this isn't very likely.
Correction: There is a different agent that is shooting her from the side, not the one from behind her which is what you are talking about. You see him walk through a door and Trinity starts running away.
Corrected entry: The French guy's henchmen tried to shoot Neo, but he stopped the bullets. The guys were about 3-4 metres from Neo, but the bullets were spread across quite a wide rectangular area in front of him. He doesn't stop them very far away from himself, so why aren't they all bunched really close together?
Correction: Because they intentionally shoot in a wide area to hit Neo even if he jumps or roll over to avoid being hit.
Corrected entry: There is no "West 101" - Highway 101 only runs North and South.
Correction: It's never specified which city/cities action takes place in within the Matrix. As such, it doesn't have to follow any specific highway naming conventions.
Corrected entry: A lot of people in Zion wear dirty and/or holey clothes (including Neo, who at one point wears a sweatshirt that's more grey than white). But in the scene where Neo asks Trinity not to go into the Matrix, there is a close-up of their hands and you can notice that both have manicured hands and Trinity has clear nail varnish on. How come they can find nail varnish in Zion when there is not enough washing powder to go around?
Correction: Because they are famous and get many gifts as shown when they came out of the elevator.
Corrected entry: During the part just before the twin gets his arm caught in a door, Trinity and the keymaker are by the door, it cuts to Morpheus picking up a sword, then the twin in front of him solidifies. Trinity and the Keymaker go through the door with Morpheus now right behind them, and close it - Morpheus has somehow got past the twin with no problems and is in the car park with them.
Correction: We see plugs in many of the stars of the film because they still need to use theirs to reenter the Matrix. It is reasonable to assume that people like Councillor Hamann (and some of the other people we see, for example, during the celebration scene) would never need to reenter the Matrix and would want all evidence of their prior lives removed, plugs and all.
Phil C.