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ELI5:why was The Matrix so revolutionary?

What was so special about The Matrix? It doesn't seem that different from most special effects movies.
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They introduced a lot of new special effects techniques. One of the more well know ones was the "bullet time" effect, which had a bunch of cameras positioned in a path around the actors each taking a single frame of the scene in rapid succession, to give both the slow motion effect and the camera panning effect.