Better than the 2nd not up to the 1st.

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2007)

No surprises in this story line. Directing and editing are uninspired. Rather than take the time to choreograph and make his bored star learn fight scenes, or complex car chases; the director has chosen to heavily edit and swing the camera around. Its a misplaced attempt to express chaos or confusion or action by using hand-held style techniques. The character, so highly trained, would not have experienced these scenes in this discordant manner- rather time would have slowed down for him. This time expansion effect is well illustrated in the first film. Director Greengrass misses the point again. SPOILER: wouldn't the ending have also been more effective left at the smile without the confirmation of swimming away in the water? It also would have made a nice bookend to the first film (opening of floating in the water) for this ending to leave him (and us) floating. I hope when they do the Emerald City that they learn to create excitement and confusion without waving the camera around. A well developed fight can have as many as 3 blows without an edit. Never in this film! Get a choreographer! And watch the first one again. Its the 10- not this one.