I seriously hope it hasn''t screwed the movie up that much. I''m taking it in Monday and hoping it will be twice as good as I hope.

Ya its WORSE then Blair Witch, WORSE and its an ACTION movie.

I don''t know, the camera work didn''t bother me much, certainly not enough to affect my opinion of the movie (which I really liked).

Oddly enough the only movie I''ve seen where the camera work physically affected me was one of the LotR movies... we were sitting way too close at a really big screen and the fight scenes made me rather dizzy.

It was still an okay movie, I enjoyed parts of it. But really there is no excuse for not putting the camera on a damn tripod. Having a shaky camera during dialogue scenes is just uncalled for, it was making me nauseous.

I was surprised how much I liked the first movie...I''ll be curious to see if I can get past the camera work...

I''ll agree with the good movie yet sh*t camera work crowd. The movie played out well, had an interesting plot (though not as good as the first) and lots of interesting twists. Yet as was stated before, the camera looks like it was held by an acrobat on crack. It definitely brought the movie down a notch.

We saw it last night and thought the same thing:

Decent movie/ AWFUL camera work. Two in our party fell asleep because they couldn''t tell what was going on.

The weird thing is that they filmed most of the scenes with regular means, and I think most of the shake was added digitaly. Which makes NO sense whatsoever. None. Maybe they will have a special edition where there is no DP with epilepsy.

And some of the angles they shot were SO much better than the ones they used! (I saw the making of on MTV, and you saw a lot of the pre/shakes footage).

-todd

Gluh. Shaky-cam. Well, i''ll prepare myself mentally to go to see it tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up everyone.

The best was an opening sequence (this won''t be a spoiler) where a character is sitting at a desk writing -- the camera is moving around a bit -- enough to be distracting. Next scene starts with a helicopter fly-over-the-city shot, oddly it is perfectly smooth. I guess they couldn''t have a handy cam guy shaking the camera around on the helicopter while they''re shooting -- because if they could have, this fricking director would have done it.

Otherwise, a decent -- albeit straight forward -- thriller.

Funny, just goes to show ""different strokes.""

I thought the camera work was excellent. I liked the fact that nothing was slowed down, that there was a gritty realism to it.

Great movie.

I must say I''m with the majority on this one. Good flick that was practically ruined by idiotic cinematography. There''s a way to film things so that they''re gritty and realistic but also visible. In the first movie, when Bourne took out the guards at the embassy you got the sense that you were watching one of the more dangerous people on Earth. In this one you got the impression that there were humans (possibly) somewhere in the scene doing things, perhaps involving fighting or high-speed tandem needlepoint.

Same with the car chases. We assume that there were several cars involved and that on occasion they would contact each other in alarming ways. They were relatively exciting still but so friggin'' obscured through blur-cam and shakey-cam shots that the excitement you would ordinarily derive from such insane driving was diminished.

In the hands of someone who wasn''t afraid to actually show you what was going on for more than a second at a time, that movie could have been awesome as an action flick. As it stands it''s marred.

Its gonna suck, but not as bad as Catwoman.

Your monitor must be made of jello for you to experience anything like that in a game. And you almost prove my point for me there, we''re all gamers and most of us don''t get motion sickness easily. I sat through the Blair Witch Project without batting an eye, and I''ve never had a FPS make me sick. I actually got nauseous in the car chase scene. Take that as you will.

Besides, the beef isn''t with getting sick, it''s with obscuring what would otherwise be fun action sequences. The camera was shaking so badly, and zoomed so far in that I couldn''t tell what was going on, that was my problem. The fight with the German man? I couldn''t tell who won till it was almost over because they were both wearing black shirts.

See, that''s the part that I actually liked.

To often directors get by with a scripted, ballet-like fight sequence (see Jackie Chan, et. all, as well as every single blockbuster film this year) in lieu of something dramatic.

The fight scene with ""the Professor"" (he''s in the first film) is nasty, frenetic, and short. Like two people really trying to kill each other. And you can''t tell who''s winning-that adds to the drama.

Just my 2 cents though.

I''ve never seen anything as shaky and unwatchable as this movie in a video game, except maybe getting super-spin stunned by a monster in Everquest while in the middle of a 100 person raid with spell effects turned on max....that might come close to how unwatchable the action sequences in this movie were.