The editing is so chopped up that all I from it was a headache

Rating: 3/10 (18 October 2015)

Well, this movie is showing on FX, and I watched. It is pretty much what should be expected from this kind of science fiction movie, but a great deal of it was action and effects, including a lot of hand-to-hand fighting. I don't have any problem with action/fighting as long as it is done well. But with this movie the director and the film editors have done something that I disdain. The actors go through choreography very slowly while the people carrying the small cameras move around excessively, and then during editing, they cut up the film into little short segments that don't even last a full second. They apparently believe that a lot of camera motion combined with this type of film editing adds up to an action sequence. I do not agree. The word that comes to mind is "jerky", and it all it does for me is to leave me with a headache. The film segments that are spliced together ought to last for several seconds at a minimum, and the camera should remain in one place for the duration of any one film segment that lasts for at least several seconds. The jerky effect that they produce is not the least bit watchable as far as I am concerned. It is simply garbage. If I had seen this in a theater where I had bought a ticket, I would have gotten up and gone to ask for a refund of the ticket. If a movie were perfect in every other way, this cheap way of creating action sequences would still ruin the movie. And this movie doesn't have very much going for it, except for good special effects that every once in a while they let you see for more than a couple of seconds. The special effects are good but not enough to make up for the headache. When I want to see action, I want to see action, and jerky cameras combined with sub-second film splicing does not equate to action. Neil Blomkamp is obviously an idiot. This movie belongs in the garbage can, and I will never again see another movie directed by Neil Blomkamp.