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Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2007)

Why Hollywood thinks that 8 bazillion cut shots equals action I do not know. The amount of cuts required for this movie must have junked 3 or 4 cropping machines. When we got near the end of the movie I thought someone had put my head in a vise, all the while drilling into my eye as the pain from retina tore through my iris. Please make this stop.
Snarkyness aside, the movie for all it's brain pounding camera work was still enjoyable. We saw an afternoon showing so the theatre wasn't too full. The dialogue was good. There was no star wars-esquire scenes of people uncomfortable with their lines. The acting was well done with woodenness down to a minimum for this action movie. The director did a good job of shot locations(when you can see them!) production was also good. Action is great and mostly believable, unlike transporter 2. No major gaffes for a great action movie. Just the choice of blue tint the entire movie and of course wild and wacky shaky camera /cut scenes. Would have been an eight or nine but the camera work just was too disjointing to get any feel for the real action going on...it almost makes one wonder how back in the old days they showed action without CGI and shaky camera. Go back and watch raiders! All in all a fun action movie that is very believable(for the most part) good special FX and a decent plot. I would recommend it, But bring your motion sickness pills!