MovieChat Forums > Fast & Furious (2009) Discussion > Camera is usually too close.

Camera is usually too close.


I have been marathon viewing this series after having only seen #1 in the past. So far I've enjoyed them all, but part 4 had one big negative. Like so many action movies today (Batman Begins and Transformers 2 are others that come to mind) the camera is SO CLOSE to the action.

When there's rapid-fire fights or gigantic robots battling, or groups of speedy cars zipping along, it helps to take a step back and see what's going on. In this movie though, I kept losing track of where the cars were in relation to each other, and couldn't tell what was going in during some of the high speed chases. It wasn't always an issue (I liked the hijacking at the beginning), but there were many instances where there were no wide shots when they would've helped capture the action better.

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Yeah and I think it would have been logical taking one easy cinematic step - "clear differences" between the cars in a car chase (different looking models, DIFFERENT COLORS AND STRIPES.

Now we have multiple greyish/blackish cars without stripes in the final chase sequence, and filming so up-close make them really hard to differntiate even though they are different makes and models, since I (and most viewers) are not expert on production "race" cars.

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