41. The interview is like a fight scene. 42. The story lines are obviously designed to link the fight scenes, leading to moments of hilariously bad dialogue. 43. Their fight scenes are as scary as any of the nighttime assaults by their unseen tormentors. 44. There are touches of Leonard Bernstein, too, particularly in fight scenes full of Jets-and-Sharks syncopation. 45. They seized upon the chaos and confusion at the fight scene, underscoring conflicting eyewitness versions of the same event. 46. To be honest, the widely hailed fight scenes might be the weakest part of the film. 47. What was intelligent and depressingly predictive in the story becomes dry talk, broken up by clumsily filmed fight scenes, punctuated by grotesque dismemberments and impalings. 48. While the love stories are told with an intelligence and elegance that we come to expect from Lee, it is the balletic fight scenes that leave audiences breathless. 49. With fight scenes filmed as blurry whizzes of light and figures flying to and fro on the screen, the film is mesmerizing to watch. 50. You have to credit Rodriguez for crafting slick fight scenes and hiring talented stuntmen. |