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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?
