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Recently saw Once Upon A Time In Mexico, and I was shocked at how poorly done most of the action sequences were. I think there were more memorable shots from El Mariachi then the hypercut mishmash that were the gunfights in this flick.

Anyone else who has seen The Killer or Hard Boiled will agree that long action takes that actually show all the action are the way to go. Nothing in recent memory beats out that last hospital scene in Hard Boiled where the camera follows the two heroes down a gunfight in one hallway, into an elevator and up to the next floor, and then continues the action.

I guess I'm just venting mostly because of how much I was expecting from Rodriguez's latest. But really, directors of Hollywood: pull the camera back a little, show some more action. Your smashzoomed shots of a gun firing and then something exploding or a blood squib are practically interchangeable between movies.