Review of Amber

The Rookie: Amber (2021)
Season 3, Episode 9
7/10
Shaky camera
16 April 2021
Okay I understand some person(s) in Hollywood long ago convinced a few directors that camera shake would make the scenes more realistic, like a novice was doing the recording. So they have the hand held camera operator abnormally move the camera, or actually have some other person grab the camera and shake it. Just quit doing that.

The problem with this technique is it instantly takes me out of the action and makes me think about the camera and camera operator. It's distracting but not in the way you'd want it.

For me camera shake, artificially induced, has ruined too many movies and TV shows. I often can't sit through it and stop watching the movie or episode. Amber had a number of scenes where camera shake was introduced. It may have been to simulate video from a body cam but that was never part of the episode.

Otherwise this episode had some interesting dialog and action.
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