The direction to me seemed pretty solid. All the lead actors gave great performances, and there was an obvious attention to subtle moments that fly over some people's head. The script was most likely completed before Webb jumped aboard, so really he had no say in where the film would go, all he could really do was set a tone. The movie felt pretty organic, the only things that felt out of place were crane scene and football post scene, but mostly everything else was pretty well done. I definitley think Webb will improve on the action aspect with this movie, due to the type of villian(s) this movie will have, they'll allow for a lot of variety in action set pieces. This movie is likely to be different than the last one though due to new writers and almost an entirely new crew. The things that will hopefully will be improved in this movie will be the editing, which hopefully the movie will be allowed to be longer than the last so that it gets room to breathe, and better staged action scenes, and a better written plot. I think this movie might have more of a lighter tone than the last one. Hopefully the writers were able to
balance everything out and not make the plot too convulated.