New camera crew please

Rating: 5/10 (6 September 2004)

Add me to the list of vertigo suffers...
As much as I enjoy the Bourne story--both the first movie and this one--I just couldn't get past the camera work in this movie. I can appreciate the notion of creating urgency, confusion, and intensity with such camera techniques, but felt it to be a major detriment to the film as it was employed. Rather than generating tension and then providing periodic release, the director went with tension throughout. I saw it on a large screen, close to the front, and found myself closing my eyes through parts of the movie to minimize the dizziness and nausea that set in about fifteen minutes in. Very distracting and disappointing. My wife and daughter also complained about being dizzy when the film was over. Here's hoping that #3 comes back down to earth. In spite of that, I thought the acting was excellent.