Camerawork and music.. what the

What were they thinking? This camerawork is so distracting with constant zooms and pans, you can almost click at any point of this movie and see the camera panning quickly so you basically only see motion blur, or zoom of some kind.

The camera is 'shaky' all over the place, the beginning scenes don't make any sense and they introduce characters so much you have to wonder when will the actual movie or story even start, and when it does, it's boring, especially when it halts to a grind for the typical Kim Basinger 'romance scene' (I don't even know if Kim Basinger is in this movie, but the women in this movie have that kind of a vibe).

Then there's the REALLY confusing, stupidly shot, irritating 'stalking scene' where Douglas is walking from a café to another and people are just looking confused and talking on the phone and whatnot. Why would he be wearing sunglasses when it's not even sunny? This isn't The Matrix (and even if it was, it could be questioned).

The worst thing about this movie is so well exemplified in that same scene - a neverending, repetitive droning of three notes of the simplest instrument you can create on the cheapest synth you can find. It's like slightly-filtered pulsewave of perhaps just a sinewave - a very simple sound just repeated with three notes over and over ad nauseum.

WHO can watch this kind of tripe? When it's this badly shot, this badly edited, and accompanied by this kind of ""music"" (listen to REAL movie music, for crying out loud, or even some fusion jazz for reference - heck, saturday morning cartoons have more lively and melodic music than this boring crap that can never be called 'music' without quotes and heavy irony or sarcasm)..

..what kind of psycho would it take to enjoy this? Do you have to be on some kind of mind-expanding drugs to watch this movie?

Douglas can be great, he was good in 'The Game' and 'Romancing the Stone', but when you watch this movie, you wouldn't even realize you are watching the same actor if he didn't look so much like him.

It's like the year 2006 was the year when 'great actors' did roles, where they disappoint their audiences completely; just watch Steve Martin's 'The Pink Panther' (they didn't even bother changing the name or giving it a subtitle) to see what I mean.

A comedic genius like Steve Martin shouldn't give THAT kind of non-performance, and a prolific actor like Michael Douglas should not appear amidst this kind of non-music and horrible, horrible camerawork. WHO thought both of those are a good idea?

I am not even going to mention the colorlessness and the bad lighting, which is a trope in 1990s and 2000s movies - thank goodness for eighties..