CAUTION: If you easily become carsick or seasick, avoid this movie. Other reviewers have mentioned the fact that on the big screen, the shoulder-cam work can induce nausea in the viewer. Well, sorry to say, it has the same effect when viewed on a small TV screen.
Whoever came up with the shoulder-cam "technique" should be forcibly tied to the highest mast on the tallest ship and forced to sail around the world that way. I don't get it. Is it supposed to make the movie more realistic...as if you are right there in the room with the action? If so, the real world I inhabit does not lurch so precipitously unless I've had a few too many drinks. Furthermore, what are the benefits of being able to count the hairs in someone's nostrils? The slow pace of the film mentioned by other viewers would not have bothered me at all; but the camera work was a complete turnoff and I could not even finish watching this movie. Too bad...the storyline seemed quite promising.
Whoever came up with the shoulder-cam "technique" should be forcibly tied to the highest mast on the tallest ship and forced to sail around the world that way. I don't get it. Is it supposed to make the movie more realistic...as if you are right there in the room with the action? If so, the real world I inhabit does not lurch so precipitously unless I've had a few too many drinks. Furthermore, what are the benefits of being able to count the hairs in someone's nostrils? The slow pace of the film mentioned by other viewers would not have bothered me at all; but the camera work was a complete turnoff and I could not even finish watching this movie. Too bad...the storyline seemed quite promising.