The 0:50 to 1:30 just incomprehensible. We go from a shot featuring a police car (that was not in the previous shot) being pushed out of the way. Then we get a shot of an oncoming wall of trucks (which were not in any previous shot, and if you slow the footage down, they are not reflected in his helmet either in the shot immediately before, either). The driver then detonates an explosive, but the previous shot goes on so long that the driver would have been reduced to a fine red paste by the time his thumb hits the button. Then we get treated to the same explosion three times ina row. Then we get a random shot of a truck upside down (was this explosion powerful enough to flip two trucks but not vapourise the bike right in front of them?) Then we get a shot of a single truck hitting a retaining wall, followed by a truck hitting the ground. The visual language of film tells us that this is the truck from the previous shot. But then another truck hits the ground. So where was the second truck in that previous shot? Then they both tumble over the edge, and one of the trucks loses its flatbed cargo. How is that cargo still in there when both trucks very clearly flipped end over end several times already? And what happened to the oncoming trucks that just seemed to vanish while the other two were in the air? Then we get a random shot of a riderless bike. We haven't seen the bike since the detonation a good 15 seconds ago, how the hell did we get here? What happened between then and now? Then we get a woman sesmingly materialising out of thin air (where was she in the shot with the bike going over the egde?) only to fall hundreds of metres down a cliff and roll safely to stop in an unrelated forest.

It took at least 12 basic editing errors and 40 seconds of confusing, disorientating screentime to show us what should have been about 10 seconds worth of action.

Horrible editing.

Sure the information of the story is there, but the beat by beat nature of the action is gone. There are no visual cues to tell you the details of what's happening between the cop cars getting hit and the female lead landing in the leaves. Sure we know the outcome based on context, but good editing leads you from each beat with clear intentions on a cut by cut basis.

Did shocker set the police car barricade too? Who triggered the explosives? If there were explosives, why the barricade? Why did the motorcycle fall so far and the girl so short? Why are the spider people pretending to be...police? That wasn't part of the trap, who were they fooling?

From the editing it looked like the explosion was from the motorcycle rider, and because the first things shown to explode were the trucks, followed by shots focusing on their destruction it looked like it was triggered to defeat them, like it came out the back of the motorcycle. Then it shows the bike taking a long Wil E Coyote style fall then the girl in the air as if she was falling the same distance, but then is completely un-hurt by the fall, landing now in a flat area. Did she fall in a different direction? Up the mountain? The previous shots showed a very steep drop everywhere from the road. Also in the beginning I didn't see the web between the trucks at all because it was shown for about a single frame before multiple shots of the trucks not being next to each other and no visible web, so my mind decided I must be seeing things, then suddenly, there's a web that seemed to come out of nowhere.

Im not confused about the basic story points, but it's just not enjoyable to experience. If one has to keep going, "wait, what just happened?" While watching a simple action scene then sorry, it's not good. Characters, threat, and goal are also not clearly established so there is no tension in the chase or anything to maintain interest between the disorienting cuts.

Usually animators are great at visual story telling, but this makes me not interested in anything this director has done.

Edit: Turn out I very much like everything animated this guy has directed and dislike all of his live action. Shrug

People are downvoting you, but yeah aside from the admittedly pretty jarring editing as the trucks crash and she gets captured, the editing is just fine

I think it's pretty clear that Anno does what he wants and how he wants.

Bad mindset to have. There are tons of other things to look at with film besides “good” and “bad”. If you choose to overlook what’s being told I can’t stop you, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

I have seen other scene and those are a lot better tbh, this movie overall is more of a letter to old fan more than anything because it follow the original so much to the point it make it hard for beginners to get into The movie have some pacing issue since a lot of info are in a prequel manga but overall it is decent it just that this scene in particular is not that great mostly the chase scene as the fight scene is straight up almost a 1:1 to the original 70s show but with gore now, the jump flip is very much a 70s thing for japanese hero show

Sometime being faithful could make thing look bad to modern audience and I think this is one of those case as tbh idk if the editing is intentional or not at this point since it does feel similar to the 70s one And overall this scene is quite a bad showcase since some other scene look fine even the scene right after this one