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3. The Bad: Terrible Direction

I never have trouble with action movies. Shaky-cam: no prob. Quick cutting: fine by me.  POV filmmaking combining both of those things: I loved Hardcore Henry.

But in half of this movie’s action sequences, I had real trouble following what was going on. The office building fight jumps rapidly between different characters so frequently that it’s impossible to read who is doing what to whom. Also, there is legitimately a fight scene that takes place ENTIRELY IN A CLOUD OF SMOKE. It’s like they don’t want anyone to follow it.

As I’ve previously mentioned, the editing is slipshod and creates a film tied together with twine. And, the weird method encouragement Ayer is said to have given his cast seems violently misguided. A stronger director would have reeled in worse performances from Joker and Enchantress and would have beefed up motivation for Katana and Boomerang.

He also wouldn’t have spent so much time letting the camera leer grossly at Margot Robbie’s body in every scene she’s in. Oh yeah, we’re talking about that because…