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cwfilmbuff43. The Bourne Ultimatum
I’m happy to see that three movies in, the series still holds up, and I hope it’s the last film they make. Although the Bourne series continued after his death, Ludlum only wrote the three books, and it works so well as a trilogy I would hate to see them bring the character back for, in the words of Paul Greengrass, The Bourne Redundancy. There are a lot of great throwbacks to the previous films, some more obvious than others, but I suspect the movie would be plenty entertaining to someone who hadn’t seen the first too. After all, how much back story do you need to enjoy a really excellent car chase (they still haven’t topped the chase in Identity, but that’s a pretty high bar and they come damned close). Best of all, like its predecessors, it’s an action movie that you don’t need to place your brain under the seat to enjoy. The audience’s intelligence is never insulted - a rarity in the summer action genre.
I’m happy to see that three movies in, the series still holds up, and I hope it’s the last film they make. Although the Bourne series continued after his death, Ludlum only wrote the three books, and it works so well as a trilogy I would hate to see them bring the character back for, in the words of Paul Greengrass, The Bourne Redundancy. There are a lot of great throwbacks to the previous films, some more obvious than others, but I suspect the movie would be plenty entertaining to someone who hadn’t seen the first too. After all, how much back story do you need to enjoy a really excellent car chase (they still haven’t topped the chase in Identity, but that’s a pretty high bar and they come damned close). Best of all, like its predecessors, it’s an action movie that you don’t need to place your brain under the seat to enjoy. The audience’s intelligence is never insulted - a rarity in the summer action genre.
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Date: 2007-08-10 04:28 pm (UTC)Seems like something you'd enjoy.