Renfield Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

3. The Frustratingly Choppy Editing

One major frustration with this movie is that it feels like it's been edited to within an inch of its life.

In the (otherwise enjoyable) action sequences, the editing is choppy to the point that it's tough to savour all the brutal violence and acrobatic mayhem - presumably the fault of director McKay by failing to shoot sufficient coverage for these set-pieces.

But overall, there's a frantic, rushed pace to the entire 93-minute movie, breathlessly darting from one scene to the next as though worried that the audience will lose interest if it holds on any single moment for more than a few seconds.

It's easy to suspect that the studio might've put their grubby fingers over the final cut and reduced it down from a longer runtime in the quest for a breezier outing, but all in all this is a movie that definitely could've chilled out and slowed things down a bit. It has "studio cut" written all over it.