Actually, the matrix has it going relatively slow also. The amount of shells is realistic looking, and most of the scene is in slow motion - but the parts that aren’t show a ratatata minigun.
I have actually heard, beleive it or not, that they use a Wooden bullet. The wood is a cheap balsa-like material that fragments into nothing less than a foot out of the barrel. They only use these on SMG’s and Assualt Rifles and the like. I don’t think they work on MG’s since the movie gun blunder database (I can’t find it, no link, sorry) was full of “I saw a blank adapter on that M-60!” reports. I think even automatic pistols don’t need the full blowback to work, but I am uncertain.
I could be wrong.
Originally posted by Whack-a-Mole
That would be our governor - Jesse “The Gov” (formerly “The Body”) Ventura.
For an amusing discussion about such things, check out this part of the Movie Cliches database. Great site.