It couldn't have been a hand-held camera, chimps don't have hands.

Rating: 3/10 (23 August 2007)

I just saw this movie tonight and sadly I think the cameraman was an advanced epileptic. The camera-work beyond SUCKED!!! I sat in the middle of a 250-300 seat theater and after about 30 minutes of trying to get my eyes to focus for more than a millisecond (even during quiet scenes of conversation), I had a raging headache. It was simply impossible to follow the action and it was not just annoying; it ruined the movie. It would have been really nice for Universal Pictures and the audience if after reading the script, taking the time to meticulously choreograph the action, chase, and fight scenes, and paying all those nice people lots of money to act it out if Paul Greengrass had thought to actually have had it filmed professionally instead of having a drunken chimp wave a second-hand video camera in the vague direction of the action. What a waste of time and effort. It makes no difference how good the action is, how good the script is, how good the acting is, etc. if you are unable to follow what the hell is happening on the screen! Don't go see this. Wait till it comes out on video and then just listen to the audio when you rent it.