Michael Bay is well-known for his extensive and frequent use of jump cuts when filming scenes that involve heavy, intense action. There's nothing wrong with using jump cuts to denote the speed of what's happening on screen, but when almost every Transformer death, gunshot, sword slash and movement is conveyed and presented with the use of such a technique, it makes following what's actually happening extremely hard to follow. There are multiple scenes throughout all four films that basically become montages of flying scrap metal, tortured faces and collapsing buildings all strewn together and made to look like a single fight sequence. What happened to tracking shots, long shots and single-camera filming? Action sequences in the films could be so much better and entertaining if there was simply more variance in how they were filmed. By all means use jump cuts, just don't depend on them to the point that what we're watching makes as much sense as sunbathing in the rain.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
