Started out strong, then fell apart with plot holes

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2011)

You probably know the setup already if you're reading this. I found the story intriguing and engaging for about half-way through, but then the plot holes just got bigger and bigger until by the end I almost didn't care what happened anymore. The weakest point: after it was explained to us what was really going on, I thought Neeson's character's motivation to do what he did was pretty far-fetched.
As for the action, is anyone else getting sick of the way fight scenes are shot nowadays? It's just one fraction-of-a-second cut on top of another: a close-up shot of someone swinging, a close-up of someone ducking, someone crashing through something, jumping off something, blah blah blah. This disconnected, quick-cut, patch-it-together-in-the- editing style looks like a sloppy way to avoid actually choreographing a fight scene, and it seems to be in almost every action movie anymore. It's even worse on the big screen. I find it nauseating and tiresome.