American directors cannot shoot fight scenes!

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2003)

With this movie it proves that most American directors do not know how to shoot a fight scene correctly. Doug Liman is trying to make Matt Damon look like Jet Li, but to no avail. The camera is undoubtedly sped up to make the fight scenes look more realistic, but that's not even the worst part. The worst part is the awful framing of the fight scenes. What is with all of the POV shots that American directors love to do in fight scenes. I know that they are trying to put me (the audience) into the fight, but I don't want to be in the fight. I want to watch the fight as it unfolds. Another director that does this in all of his movies is Michael Bay (The Rock, Pearl Harbor). The only American directors that have gotten it right are the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix). Once again proving that there is no action like Asian action.