There are few video game skills as memorable as Max Payne’s bullet time. The trick brought the thrill of 1999’s The Matrix to video games, letting players slow down time and send Max flying through ...

When The Matrix hit the cinemas back in 1999 it started a minor revolution with its use of so-called “Bullet time” — a freeze-frame technique in which the action could move round a momentarily frozen ...

The Matrix was a Trojan Horse. What began with Y2K futurism, kung-fu, and “bullet time” later evolved into a brooding treatise on free will. The sequel to the 1999 phenomenon, The Matrix Reloaded, ...