The editing itself is great, you have a good sense of pacing and you brought out a very action-y feel.
Many thanks, Mastamind! This is the first good thing anyone has had to say about this video. I readily acknowledge the interlacing issues and the letter-boxing issue is my worst editing nightmare (my software didn't scale ratios well before its most recent patch, distorting things to fun-house proportions).
In all the places you mentioned though, the interlacing and letter boxing stems from footage salvaged from a hard drive crash. ...Yeah. It didn't fair well, to say the least. Unfortunately, those discs were lost in my move two years ago and I refuse to download the footage online (I would rather own the discs and I fear the US copyright people trolling most torrent sites). I think I might have left them at the ex's place, but can't say for certain, which is heart-rending in and of itself. If I can ever find those discs again or obtain new copies, I will happily remaster this AMV.
On a side note, if you ignore the black bars, it plays beautifully on my tv. Then again, I am playing a relatively uncompressed version of this vid there. In short, I think my web encoding skills have lost their polish in three year's time. **shurgs** I will read a few more encoding tips, hunt down the new versions of some of my old tools, and definitely do better next time. Promise.

There is nothing like a moonless night to watch a few AMVs.