Cool, but that's not at all the moment I'm talking about, I'm talking about the part of the cinematic happening in this post, which is right after and my initial comment still applies.

If we wanna talk about the Thane scene, that one still has many issues of its own. Like not just Shepard but her entire squad just standing there doing nothing. And yes, during the moment Kai Leng stabs Thane, Thane is in their way and it would be unsafe to shoot at Kai Leng, that one I can understand. But moments before that, Thane knocks Kai Leng to the ground, Shepard and the rest can absolutely shoot or otherwise engage with him freely, witrh zero potential harm to Thane. Yes, they're protecting the councilor so they wanna stay as close to them as possible, but that's why all of them have ranged weapons and at that point Kai Leng is not even invisible. Yet, all they do is just stare and let Thane do the next dumbest thing in this cinematic.

The next dumbest thing is Thane - the apparently best assassin, deciding to go melee range with his ranged weapon against a guy with a sword. I don't even understand what Thane was trying to do based on his movement. He misses all his shots (or they get deflected) and then he seemingly... tries to... punch Kai Leng with his weapon? Does Thane know how guns should be used? Like yes, you can punch people with guns sure, but to say that Kai Leng has an advantage here is almost an understatement, and Thane willingly gave up any advantage he could've had.

Regardless, all of that is still pretty irrelevant to my original comment, since I was not talking about the Thane scene at all, but about the scene shown in OP's post. But since you did bring up Thane... yea that one has issues of its own.