8 More Movie Sequels With Visual Effects Inexcusably Worse Than The Original

The original Matrix movie was a groundbreaking sci-fi action flick, widely credited with making "bullet time" - aka super-cool slo-mo - a staple of a lot of Hollywood blockbusters.

This went hand-in-hand with its Oscar-winning visual effects, which is the one thing the movie is most famous for: whenever The Matrix comes up in conversation, a key talking point is always its cool, stylised, grimy dystopian look, as well as its inventive action sequences, achieved via an impeccable mix of practical stunt work, and unobtrusive digital enhancements.

So the fact that that legacy has been tarnished with scenes like the Neo vs. multiple Agent Smiths fight in The Matrix Reloaded is a great shame.

It's just not very good at all, with the jarring WTF transitions between the real actors and the fake, floppy, weightless Keanu Reeves proving a major distraction, and with the insane amount of digital bodies cluttering the screen, the whole thing quickly devolves into a big black wave of incomprehensible visual noise. In fact, the CGI is quite spotty throughout both Matrix sequels, with the far cheaper original proving the best-looking of the three.

For a series whose visuals inspired an entire generation of filmmakers (and changed the way Hollywood approached action scenes), the poor CGI on display here is criminal. Of all the things to get wrong, this was not one of them.

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