Couldn't get over the direction/camera work

Rating: 1/10 (21 August 2007)

I loved the first film, the second one less so and this was my least favourite by far.
From the point of view of plot, it was very much a re-run of the second film. The only twist was the end which I won't give away.
What utterly spoiled it for me was the endless "shaky-cam" which others have commented on. I see comments on the message board that this is somehow "real". It is not. It is a so-called documentary style, only because the scenes in documentaries cannot be rehearsed and so the cameraman cannot predict what is happening and keep the scene in his field of view. This is obviously not the case in a feature film. It is therefor merely a ploy, a false technique to *give the impression" of reality and is therefore even more unreal.
The best direction and camera-work is that which you do not notice. This was so in-your-face "look at my direction" that I had to look away for large sections of the film.. On the big screen it is overwhelming and the eye and brain search in vain for reference points to hold on to.
Sorry - but I just hated it.