Action should not have included cameras.

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2007)

For some, this movie will be nearly unwatchable; the plot seems to be really good, the action is non-stop and intense, the pacing may be a little frantic, and maybe, just maybe, there was some really good fight choreography.
But I couldn't tell through the disastrous camera work. It's as if someone not only shot everything hand-held, but added oscillating mass drivers turned up to 11. It took so much away from the film, I came away feeling ripped off. Yes, I know that that is Greengrass' style, but it was worse in this movie than his previous efforts, and when combined with the other movie-shooting clichés (the blurry obscured over-the-shoulder talking head shot, which is OK once or twice, but beaten like a dead horse here), ends up burying what felt like might have been a great movie in a total mess.