The bullet dodging makes no sense
I was thinking about bullets, and why can they damage both the agents and the 'visitors' to The Matrix, who KNOW the bullets are not real. How does your mind make any damage from them 'real', when YOU KNOW they are not real?
In any case, the agents use kung-fu and dodging instead of something more logical. Why are they not programmed to simply be impervious to bullets? No more stupid dodging waste-of-energy stuff, no more Neo being able to kill them because the minigun shoots bullets so fast (why did they not START with a helicopter and a minigun anyway? Why the whole lobby scene? They can have ANYTHING THEY NEED and they do not want to 'need' a helicopter?).
I mean, they always do the more convoluted, harder, more toil-filled thing instead of the simple, easy, quick solution. Why is this?
Why does Agent Smith try to kill Neo with kung-fu and TRAIN (sigh, as if the driver couldn't slow down..), when the spider droid should've strangled Neo instantly when they noticed he's awake?
Why do they 'dodge bullets' painstakingly (but not if someone gives a small SPEECH before shooting, because there would be WAY MORE TIME TO DODGE it in the latter case... sigh), when they could just program the bullets to be INEFFECTIVE AGAINST AGENTS, or they could program the AGENTS TO BE IMPERVIOUS TO BULLETS.
Why would they even let agents be killed at all? They are programs, so what the heck, why would they have to follow the 'rules' so much? That's like a moderator of a forum that can be kicked offline by writing insults at them in chat. What kind of sense does that make?
There are so many other instances of this inefficiency as well - why even bother using cars, when you could jump around roofs, or more importantly, just SPAWN instantly somewhere 800 km away?
Trinity does only ONE jump, when she should have just kept jumping like that from roof to roof, leading to a super fast and interesting chase, where agents jump after her and so on.
Then again, why are the agents so careless about 'showing their abilities' to the public, they don't have MiB-style memory erasers (though why can't 'The Matrix' automatically 'filter out' anything the agents do so no one can see, let alone remember anything about them except the 'normal' stuff? OR, why don't they let this 1999 'reality' be at least SLIGHTLY more interesting? I don't fully buy Smith's explanation about 'misery and suffering' anyway)..
It's like the machines WANT to do things as inefficiently and stupidly as possible, 'so the movie can happen'.
If the machines were competent _AT_ALL_, this movie absolutely could not happen the way it does.