This style worked very well in Gladiator as a means of communicating both the confusion of combat and the speed at which the combatants had to react. In this case, the film works really well with those who have what one might call a better trained eye. Those who do not watch much sports or films or television that uses quick cuts will probably find the cuts too fast. However, these people are probably outside of the target audience of the film.

The director was able to keep the pace of the movie up throughout the film, even with a few mandatory pauses, which was a pretty amazing feat.

But we should be talking about the poor physics! How much glass can one man crash through?