10 Most Dishonest Editing Cuts In Film History

5. It Takes 15 Cuts To Make Liam Neeson Climb A Fence - Taken 3

Modern action movies are routinely taken (!) to task for their hyperactive editing techniques, but this was elevated to a whole new level of ridiculousness in the wretched Taken 3.

In an early scene where hero Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is on the run from the cops, he leaps onto a car and then hops over a fence.

Given that Neeson was 62 years of age at the time of shooting, it's not terribly surprising that he used a double to execute the stunt, and an in hilariously misguided attempt to conceal the double, director Olivier Megaton chopped the simple stunt up into 15 cuts over the course of a mere six seconds.

Even were it not an absolute headache to watch, it's totally unsuccessful in its attempt to convince us that Liam Neeson actually scaled the fence for real: his face is visible in just a few early cuts, before his face is obscured for every other major "action" shot.

Seriously, why not just have the stunt double scale the fence from the back in a single shot? Or better yet, just cut the stunt altogether if a 60-something man can't realistically do it anyway.