Which feels more realistic? You are going for realistic in a non-superhero action movie. This gets the job done better than perfectly staged, perfectly lit and shot without a cut does.

Admit it, you're old-fashioned. You like things staged with meticulous choreography and filmed from four cameras and maybe a fifth helicopter viewpoint. That's just not where the art form is at nowadays. You might as well throw in bad English voice-overs and a generic Hong Kong background track.