Enough with the Jiggle Cam Already.

Rating: 5/10 (18 February 2007)

The good story and action scenes have a high potential for a great movie. However, the director has ruined this film with the "Jiggle Cam" effect. If the point is to make it look like it was a seasick camera operator with alcoholic withdrawal symptoms, then the effect worked. I watched this on TV and was praying for the commercials. The action scenes are a blur of incomprehensible snippets from a bad dream, pieces of jiggling camera flashes that confuse the viewer. Who is shooting who, what car is he in, why are we in an office and why is the cameraman jiggling around? Whose viewpoint is this shot from? Code Blue, in room 410, bring epinephrine STAT! This director went over the top using the effect with the result that a great film was made into a cliché hospital TV show. Jiggling the camera is cliché already. There, that ought to get the message across. Hollywood, ENOUGH WITH THE JIGGLE CAM ALREADY! IT HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH!