The other problem is that the film gets into a frustrating
rhythm of action scene / downtime / action scene / downtime and each of the quieter moments is horribly dull.
Not exact matches
Here we also have a foreshadowing
of Tarantino's
rhythm in the
action scenes to come, as the two fighters pause as Vernita's daughter arrives home from school.
The situations are realistic for the most part, and one gets the sense that even director Michael Caton - Jones (Memphis Belle, Basic Instinct 2) thought the film drags too much, as there are a few attempts at
action that break the
rhythm of the film, providing the worst
scenes.
Probably partly for that reason, his style eschews the most prevalent annoying tic
of contemporary directors (let's call it the Zack Snyder effect), who've gotten in the habit
of ramping frame rates up and down within
action scenes — sometimes within a single shot — to exploit admittedly - beautiful combat - porn imagery at the expense
of any sense
of timing and
rhythm.
The final
action scene was difficult, mostly because
of where we were in that variable tempo
rhythm.