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the ultimate in pointless kinetics.
I don't know WHY I pay-per-viewed this flick. It scoured the cable company's usual vapid selection of hi-def films. I then cross-referenced them on Rotten Tomatoes, the review website, and made a list of the highest rated films.
Interestingly, this film was THE highest rated of any of the available pay-per-view fare, a 92 I think!
Well, make sure you take your Rotten Tomatoes with a grain of salt.
{WARNING! Spoilers ahead!}
This film consisted of several iterations of the very same scene. It goes something like this:
EVIL CIA DIRECTOR:
We've got Bourne cornered THIS time. I want a 7-block perimeter hermetically sealed. All available personel on alert! Special Ops, too! Shoot to kill. Bring in the helicopters. I want roof to roof surveillance. Snipers at ready. There's NO WAY he can escape!
{Hint: Bourne escapes, leaving a few broken windows, crashed cars, and mercessly beaten up CIA agents in his wake ... and oh, there is usually a nice explosion or two thrown in.}
In between these frenetic, utterly predictable cat and mouse episodes, punctuated with dizzying camera movements and loud noises, there are only they most rudimentary and perfunctory efforts at characterization and story-telling.
Finally, we arrive at the most anti-climactic of climaxes in memory. He finds out his real name, which is NOT Jason Bourne, but "David Web." AH HAAAAA! Huh?
Don't ask me the signficance of this vital discovery. I just saw the movie.
Follow Ups:
I enjoy both.
YECH
Camera work and the color pallette were ridiculous. Please Lord, let not its undeserved technical awards inspire others to do the same. I thought I was being clever as the group wanted to see Live Free or Die Hard, I talked them into this using the Oscars as proof it was a superior movie. Just fookin awful/......
There's a muscle on her arm
With a red and blue tatoo
That says
Fort Worth I love you
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Some actors you avoid unless they are in a killer flick and part of an ensmeble cast.
Matt Damon, Tom Cruise,etc... pick whatever doesn't float your boat.
Matt Damon is good enough to be a supporting actor. How or why he became a star I do not understand.
You know, I agree with that assessment of Damon. He does not wear well on the screen. I can't think of a single role he played in which I didn't feel Damon fatigue by the end of the film.
In "Ripley," his limite range almost worked for him, making his appear more of a sociopathic conundrum. Otherwise, I find his work extremely workmanlike and uninspiring. To be fair, I haven't seen all his movies.
Now, with Cruise, I would disagree. Yes, it's easy to get tired of his pretty-boy, physical appeal. But he CAN carry a movie, and he has given some very fine performances, Jordan's CONVERSATION WITH A VAMPIRE comes to mind.
I liked Damon in Dogma.
But then again, he wasn't a leading part, and there were enough good people around him that maybe any flaws weren't noticeable...
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
I tend to agree. I loved the first of the trilogy. It had a real sense of mystery about it. Even by the second that was obviously lost but it made for a decent enough thriller nonetheless (although I was missing Franka's presence ;^D). By the third it was just effects, action shots and implausible tie-ups. Dissapointing but partly expected.
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