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James Cameron's best work is hard to top in terms of action.
But these days, in attempts to create more instant "exhiliration", many directors and editors are using horrible MTV style flash and gimmickry to leave the viewer stunned, but zombie-like in appreciation. I don't know what we just witnessed, but I'm sure it looked good!
Fight sequences for example: a series of tiny quickfire edits (was that a foot? look there goes a fist! ooo see that!?) soundtracked with the most crisp bone-crunching FX they could come up with are supposed to satisfy us.
And they do, obviously, because more and more films are being made this way - box office receipts ensure it.
Big action scenes now resemble computer games because of digital technology. I haven't had the pleasure of Transporter 2, but a glimpse of the trailer reveals so much hokey CGI at work it now seems anything is possible.
The world ends when anything is possible.
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