The more important issue is: If the camera is a part of the story, that doesn't mean it has to be
the worst camerawork ever.
I just saw it and I have to say I agree with the reviewer, but I think 90 % of the problems come from
the bad camerawork.
2 wherein he details how Clark Kent is the alien Superman's commentary on the human race could be transplanted onto an analysis of Fulci's career: Fulci's movies are bumbling messes of astonishingly
bad camerawork (there are more «dramatic» zooms in his work than in the entire run of «Starsky & Hutch») spiced liberally with his thoughts regarding how women are meant to be pierced in any number of ways to fuel the purpose, good or vengeful, of men.
Not exact matches
Far more problematic is Demange's decision to suffuse the film's action sequences with jittery, shaky
camerawork, with this technique draining such moments of their effectiveness and,
worse still, ensuring that they're almost uniformly incoherent.
The
camerawork by New Hollywood DP John A. Alonzo (Chinatown), who shot documentaries with Friedkin when they both worked for David Wolper in the mid-1960s, is a sterling example of late -»80s cinematography (for better and
worse), featuring lots of blue and an aggressive use of shadows to add expressionist texture to interiors, along with appropriately bizarre lighting effects in the wooded scenery outdoors.
The 3D 48 fps edition looks amazing in steady close - ups of faces, for example, but has the negative effect of accentuating the
worst of Jackson's decisions: the use of rapid - fire editing and unsteady
camerawork for his action sequences.
His
camerawork, his musical choices, his sound design, none of his accomplishments (for better or
worse) ever feel accidental.
Not that that's a
bad thing necessarily, as the visceral nature of such fare certainly can make for an engaging viewing experience, and some of the appeal of this film comes through the use of in - your - face
camerawork and a constant sense of urgency.