10 Making-Of Movie Secrets Hidden In Plain Sight

The Matrix may be a technical marvel beyond compare, but it also hides a few sneaky technical sleights of hand in plain sight.

In the climactic sequence where Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) shoots Neo (Keanu Reeves), seemingly killing him, there's a quasi-pornographic overhead shot of the bullet's shell casing being ejected from the gun.

Except if you look closer, it's clear that we're actually looking at a blank round, because the front of the "casing" is actually crimped, as is standard practice in Hollywood to differentiate a dummy round from a real bullet, which would of course have a typical curved tip.

In a film which pulled off so many staggering feats of visual effects wizardry, this clearly could've been fixed in a hot minute, but the Wachowskis either failed to notice or, just as likely, didn't care enough to correct something so minor.