"People leave the frame while talking? No big deal, it'll all be dubbed in post anyway."

also, the reaction gasp at :40 is one of the oldest and most overused canned effects out there, probably second only to the Wilhelm Scream

i hear Travolta is actually OK in this (aside from the fact that he needs 4 lbs. of pancake makeup and a girdle for scenes when he's playing 30 years younger), and this could have been at least an interesting movie if it was made 20 years ago by at least semi-competent people.

In real life, people are incapable of holding cameras steady so that only adds to the immediacy of the footage and gives it that gritty authenticity that films where the camera people are apparently able to manipulate cameras without wobbling about like drunks lack.

Put it this way: it's a really bad sign for a movie when the studio sits on it for a year or two and then, instead of releasing it, sells the rights to the filmmakers for cheap and washes their hands of it. Lionsgate thought this was so terrible, they didn't even try to re-coup costs in the usual way.