The Nausea Games

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2012)

This movie would have been really great had it not been for the WAY over-excessive use of the shaky cam for every single shot in the movie. There's nothing that ruins the experience more than some kid whose father rushes him to the emergency exit during an action scene to go throw up his popcorn just outside the door for all of us to see.
For example...***SPOILER ALERT***...
Every time the mockingjays mimicked the whistle signal, the idiot behind the camera would point up and shake the crap out of the shot. It felt like a 4-year old son of the director was handed a camera and told to "shoot the sky".
***END SPOILER ALERT***
Seriously. The use of the shaky cam just about ruined it for me. It's like when a singer uses so many vocal runs in a song that the melody is all but unintelligible. Likewise, this movie had emotion, a good plot, an engaging story, and good actors. Too bad we were all focused on the kid puking and trying to keep our eyes unfocused enough during the 2 hour shaky-cam fest to not join him ourselves.
DO NOT DO THAT IN THE SEQUEL! I came to see a movie, not ride the Tilt- a-Whirl.