> > What's better than one Agent Smith? 500 Agent Smiths. I'm ready to put that down as the best fight scene, ever. Just ruling beyond belief, and I had a huge smile on my face the whole time.
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> I have the feeling that I'm the only person in the world who was bothered by how fake the computer rendered Neo looked. It completely wrecked that scene for me, since I noticed it from the commercials, and when that scene started up my mind just went *click* fake fake real fake real real fake etc.

I found the same thing. While it didn't *wreck* the scene (which I still think was totally cool), it was visibly fake enough that it brought me back down to earth several times during the fight. In fact, I remember sitting there thinking "Why does it spoil the fun when Neo starts looking like a video game character instead of a live actor, but it doesn't when I'm watching an obvious special effect such as 500 versions of the same actor on screen at once?" I don't know the details of how they do this stuff, but to me the multiple Smiths were seamless; the sudden "everybody just changed into a video game for two seconds there" moments weren't.