After sitting through "Takers" with my stomach rearranged by hyperactive camera spazzing, I hereby formally request all directors and cinematographers to just get a grip already and STOP. WIGGLING. THE CAMERA.
The wobbly handheld approach has its place in documentaries, first-person horror and small Danish movies, but any filmmaker who considers going jiggly should first sit down and watch Fritz Lang's "M," and then decide whether scrambling the audience's visual field is truly the best approach to telling a story. Even in an action movie. Especially in an action movie. I thought the point of watching fistfights, chases and shoot-outs was to actually see the fistfights, chases and shoot-outs.
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