Great movie, bad camera work

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2004)

Quickly, I love the movie. the charicters, the arc, and the pace of the film. Denzel was on top of his game, although he should have been dead ten times over. Walken had yet another class speech in the "masterpiece" bit. And ever the smaller charicters were played with great energy. Any one of them could carry their own movie. The soundtrack was haunting, done by the same woman who sang on the "Gladiator" soundtrack. My biggest problem with the film ? The camera work made me wish it was over much faster. The constant cuts, and splits and double and triple vision drove me crazy. This is one of the rare instances that the camera distracted you from the story. That little girl, Dakota is going to be a very big star. Over all a 9 out of 10.