Crane shot bonanza!

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2007)

Let's start with the bad things: Sean Bean's terrible American accent, bad acting all round (with the exception of Radha Mitchell). The good: good special effects and a butch female motorbike cop. Plus there's more crane shots than you can poke a stick at. I'm not sure where to put this... It didn't save the film, but it did make me nauseous. And that took my mind off things a bit. I doubt Roger Avary foresaw so many crane shots when he wrote the script - "crane goes up, crane goes down, crane goes sideways, crane does the shimmy shimmy shake..." Maybe if Radha Mitchell and the butch cop had got it on... I like to think they wanted to, they just didn't feel it was the right time. Shame, it would have been the first sex scene shot entirely by crane.
5 out of 10.