Although my wife hated it, I'm willing to overlook the comic book dialog and characterization, the cliched plot and the confusing editing. Matt Damon has done a very good job with the character, the improvisation in some of the fight scenes is entertaining, and some scenes (particularly Waterloo station) are very well done.

But we have to do something about that shaky camera. Good grief! I found it very hard to listen to the dialog (not missing much, I admit) because that shaky technique was making me so aware of the camera. I don't think Greengrass originated this, it appears to have originated in some TV police shows, some film school hack's notion of cinema verite.

Rather than making scenes "real," the shaky camera feels contrived and obvious and, well, stupid. Is there some way we can communicate to these people: understand the intention, it doesn't work, think of something else?

There is only one explanation that makes sense to me. The Democratic leadership is doing what their big money donors are telliing them to do. Presumably a lot of it is AIPAC money, and a lot of individual big-money donors just got really weird after 9/11.

I mean, I just can't imagine several hundred people being so willfully stupid as to march in lock-step to war with Iran following essentially the same script as they had for Iraq. We'd have to start discussing things like fluoridation to explain stupidity on such a vast scale.

The press are easy to understand. Anyone who has worked in a corporation knows that middle management communicates to you in all kinds of subtle and unspoken ways how top management expects you to speak and behave. These are (not very bright) career whores, pure and simple.