Good film but the Shake-Cam makes it unwatchable.

Rating: 3/10 (19 August 2006)

I did like the film in some respects but I do not like to leave the cinema with motion sickness. Paul Greengrass (a fellow countryman of mine) either has a neurological disorder or he's obsessed with throwing the camera around to induce sickness in his audience. There was a time when steadicam was used - very frugally - to try and give a little immediacy to a movie. Mr. Greengrass should try and grasp the fact that steadicam is like garlic - use it a little and only on occaasion. To have the entire film with focus going in and out, and with juddering and shaking (which would make a 7 year old with a camcorder look professional by comparison) shows that he has "Shake-Camitis", to the exclusion of all other cinematographic techniques. Anyone else on earth could have made a much better job of the photography. After I had to sit and suffer through The Bourne Supremacy (another of Mr. Greengrass's Shake Cam monstrosities, I've decided to leave Mr. Greengrass's films and his St. Vitus's dance to other unfortunate cinema attenders. UGH!