Should be seen as intended nothing more

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2011)

Many disclaim the film for it's lack of depth or story veracity but they try to see more than what it actually is: ~90 minutes of rapidly evolving action centered around a small group of characters. Personally i enjoyed the movie and here's some of the main aspects.
IMHO best thing was the idea of the camera over-taping over an older tape of the 2 "main-lovers" in the story. Not going to comment on how well they constructed around the idea but i found it very innovative from an artistic point of view as throughout the movie you see fragments of the old tape AND helps build-up this awesome ending to the movie.
Characters. The story doesn't evolve much around them and you don't really get attached to any and i'm sure that may annoy some of the viewers but in order to create a realistic background to this fast-paced action there wasn't any possible way to give the characters a chance to play-out their role any more. Also i found their acting (as little as it was) a bit off. Girl in the ending scene from under the bridge wasn't convincing at all. The "narator" ..guy who carries the camera... is something else, his lines are so unbelievably annoying that i was glad when he died in the end, although retarded as he was, it did humanize him a lot more..even more-so than the guy who risks his life for the chick who's probably dead. Another minus was the vague content of some scenes like the running up and back down some stairs. I'm sure they could have made the guy trip the camera go out and come back a few moments later when they needed the flashlight from the camera and instead work a little on other moments like the "fortunate" exit from a subway tunnel right into a military hospital built right there (srsly?). The nauseating camera work was really convincing. People that cry about this shouldn't be watching the movie in the first place. Overall the movie is worth seeing if not for the context then at least for the good special effects.