I personally despise the trend towards hyper-edited, hyper-frenetic fight scenes. I understand the theory behind editing and presenting them in this way--it's an attempt to make these scenes more immersive, to put us (or the camera as our surrogate) directly into the fray of battle. Unfortunately, 99 times out of 100 I find the style distracting and frustrating, obscuring of the action rather than illustrative of it. For a perfect example of an effective "old fashioned" action scene look to Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," "Sanjuro," or "Seven Samurai"--in these films there's often quite a distance between POV and action and often minimal editing, yet the kinetic nature of the scenes virtually leaps off the screen. How can I be emotionally involved in a fight scene if I can't see a damn thing that's going on in it?