Its a poorly written plot, tacked on at the last minute. It doesn’t make sense when you thonk about...
NPH talked about using "bullet time" against Neo...bullet time was never referenced in the Trilogy, only by the IRL directors. All Neo did was "move like they (the agents) do" according to Trinity. This would make sense if the Trilogy was video game in this film universe but the film tells us from the beginning that the Matrix is real. There never was a game. So why is a fictional character meta-referencing a real world film technique that doesn't necessarily have a frame of reference within said universe....
You could easily solve this by saying the trilogy was a film series and Neo is an actor but the check clears either way
I take it that the "Matrix Trilogy" referenced in universe is the game trilogy...which just happens to look just like the movies look in our world. I agree it falls apart a little if you look at it too hard.
I have to admit, I actually kind of liked the idea of reverse-bullettime being used against Neo.
Basically, in the original trilogy, bullet time was when Neo's perception and physical speed were sped up so fast that bullets looked like they were moving in slow motion. What the Analyst was doing in this movie was letting Neo's time perception speed up, but not allowing his physical speed to speed up. Kind of like the drugs from the recent Dredd movie. At least, that's how I took it.
As for how the Analyst knew about the term Bullet time, that's simple:
The Matrix GAME that Neo created used the term Bullet Time, so anyone in that world familiar with gaming terminology knew what it meant.
Of course, the real explanation is that it is a gimmick to allow to the characters to have meta conversations about the first movie within this movie, but we already know that.
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