The two kung-fu films mentioned, The Matrix and Charlie's Angels, both include scenes where someone jumps up in bullet-time and kicks a bad guy across the room - I think the writer was referring to this phenomenon. Obviously The Matrix is a fantasy film and Charlie's Angles moreso so anything goes really.
My major space gripe is that in sci-fi films there seems to be no up or down, everything exists on one plane. At the end of Return of the Jedi, when the rebel forces are caught between the Death Star and the empirial ships, they say "OMG WE'RE TRAPPED!". But they could have just gone UP or DOWN, and saved a whole load of bother.
My major space gripe is that in sci-fi films there seems to be no up or down, everything exists on one plane. At the end of Return of the Jedi, when the rebel forces are caught between the Death Star and the empirial ships, they say "OMG WE'RE TRAPPED!". But they could have just gone UP or DOWN, and saved a whole load of bother.