13 “Matrix” Mistakes That Only Those Who Chose the Red Pill Noticed

A date forever marked as a key point in film history is June 10, 1999, when The Matrix premiered. With scenes of frantic fights, revolutionary effects and deep philosophical discussions, this film had the power to leave audiences in ecstasy for a long time. No wonder it spawned a new sequel in December 2021, Matrix Ressurections.

The box office, public and critical success, in addition to the awards that the feature had, made many people not even notice that, yes, The Matrix has its flaws. There are continuity errors, production errors, special effects and small holes that do not spoil the films, but make us see them with different eyes.

So, we from awesome.clubwe put on our sunglasses and black overcoats and broke into the matrix to unravel and show you some of the biggest mistakes present in the Matrix trilogy.

Starting with the first film in the franchise, The Matrix, released in 1999, we have a very famous and tense scene where the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) gets into a conflict with one of the agents of the Matrix, Agent Brown (Paul Goddard), on top of a building. Agents are actually Matrix programs, so they have superhuman capabilities and are known to be unstoppable.

So much so that, in this scene, Agent Brown simply dodges all the shots made by Neo, at a very high speed. Deviations make a very interesting blur effect to see on the screen, the revolutionary bullet time. So interesting that hardly anyone noticed that the bullets did nothing to the windows of the building that was just behind the agent.

In one scene, Neo’s workplace is shown, a company with the big name on the facade, “Metacortex”. Once inside, at the end of a corridor, few people noticed but it is possible to clearly see the name of the company written differently: “Meta Cortech”. Someone missed this detail.

In that same scene, Neo, who was still Thomas Anderson, receives a mysterious package from FedEx. Not understanding anything, he opens the envelope and finds a cell phone. The phone is turned off but still receives a call. The scene is fast, but it is possible to notice that the screen did not light up when receiving the call.

Still at that moment, Neo tries to escape the agents through the window, climbing the building outside, but when he drops his cell phone, he realizes the danger and gives up. When the phone is dropping, you can’t see people on the sidewalk, only cars passing by. However, in the next cut, when the agents already have Neo arrested, the sidewalk is full of pedestrians.

Another very famous part is when Neo meets Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne III) and is introduced to the two pills, blue and red. The next time you review this scene, pay attention to Morpheus’ hand, which from the beginning holds a metal case that holds the pills. Before sitting in the armchair, the box appears and disappears from his hand. There’s even a small part of this scene where the character’s arm changes position between one cut and another.

The scene in which Neo awakens in the real world to discover that he has spent his entire life in a cocoon, along with thousands of other people, generating energy for the Matrix, is shocking. In addition, it has its share of controversy, as he wakes up without any hair on his entire body, and can walk or talk, even though he has never used his muscles in real life. At the very least, he should have atrophied muscles. Since the movie doesn’t explain this, fans can only speculate on the explanations.

There’s also a scene where Morpheus attacks Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), so his teammates have time to escape. They are in the bathroom of an abandoned building, practically in ruins. And they start fighting and breaking various walls and tiles. One of Agent Smith’s punches punches a hole in a section of the red brick wall. Literally seconds later, the same place appears without the hole.

Yes, we’re talking about Morpheus’ glasses. Maybe you don’t agree that they are the coolest, but that they are interesting, they are. A rodless model that challenges our understanding of how it sits on the face, and mirrored lenses. Except for the scene where Morpheus explains to Neo the difference between the Matrix and the real world, as a mistake made the character appear with black and mirrored glasses alternately.

Regarding the second film in the franchise, Matrix Reloaded, released in 2003, there are many flaws in the production to be pointed out. At the time, a list of more than 80 errors found in this feature circulated on the internet. Even without the misconceptions, both this and the third film in the franchise did not please fans, being far from the success of the first.

There’s no time to comment on 80 mistakes, but right at the beginning of the movie one of them is obvious. Three agents knock on a heavy metal door looking for Neo. It looks like metal, sounds like metal and, being a fortress, it should be metal. In short, there is no doubt about what it is made of. The agents start hitting it and there is a clang of metal, but when it finally gives in, the broken door is made of wood. Continuity error or hole in the script?

Matrix Reloaded didn’t disappoint in its fantastically choreographed fight scenes, and one of them takes place in a white hallway filled with Agents Smith versus Neo, Morpheus and the Locksmith (Randall Duk Kim). There is a detail that is very difficult to notice, early on, when the first Smith appears. As he speaks, despite being very close to the three heroes, the reflection in his glasses only shows an empty hallway. After the cut, however, the reflex starts to show its opponents.

What would an action movie be without a chase scene? Matrix Reloaded delivers a chase on a highway, with lots of stunts and explosions. But we may notice an error when Morpheus sticks a sword into a truck to rescue the Locksmith. It’s close to the edge, at arm’s length, but when he uses it as a step, it’s much lower. And when Morpheus takes the sword back, it’s close to the edge again.

Matrix Revolutions, the third in the franchise, was recorded alongside the second and released just six months later. Despite this, it has far fewer errors than its predecessors. One of them is pretty easy to spot when everyone is in a meeting room with Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). Throughout the scene, Trinity is shown switching positions with Link (Harold Perrineau Jr.) several times, depending on which camera is filming her.

At the end of the film, we have a conversation between the Oracle (Mary Alice) and the Architect (Helmut Bakaitis). The Oracle is sitting on a park bench and when she gets up, we can see a sticky tape stuck to the backrest, in the place where she was. It looks like just a detail of the set, but these tapes are used by the production to demarcate the position in which the actors must stand. Someone forgot to take one!

We hope that fans of the franchise are not upset with us for pointing out so many mistakes in the Matrix films, after all none of this takes away the genius and beauty of these works. Either way, we want to know if you’ve watched the sequel, Matrix Resurrections. Does this movie also deserve a list of mistakes?