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In Reply to: "Bourne Ultimatum": Slding into storyline oblivion..... posted by mr grits on August 3, 2007 at 19:52:38:
...it was loaded for bear!
While I did rather enjoy the movie (I had fallen asleep during a DVD showing of Supremacy), I actually preferred Live Free or Die Hard (within the genre). The car crashes, though, were louder in the former -- and I saw them in the same theatre.
But there were holes, many holes.
The rapid camera work allowed no sense of place to develop, so when Bourne was being chased through alleys and corridors we had no idea where he might be able to head, or where possible pitfalls lay. So how did he know? We were unable to discern his thought process in those high-pressure moments.
In Tangier he ended up with the constabulary chasing him en masse, although I saw no alert put out to them.
In New York he jump-started cars -- that's a survival tactic I thought had been made to disappear, among major auto makers.
Everywhere he went he still seemed to have the right access cards and codes. Very handy!
A key word in the plot is "blackbriar", which was first recognized through Echelon audio detection -- although how that word was distinguished from "blackfriar" (as in where you grab a pint or two) beats me, as the aural confusion can be found in several reviews, where even the critic heard and printed the latter word.
The exciting, early-on sequence of following Bourne continuously around town via numerous cameras happened, please note, not in America but in London, the most clandestinely-watched city in the world. That's a cautionary note for those who would have America be more like Europe.
The sound mix was excellent, one segment especially where it cut back and forth between two separate chases: LOUD, soft, LOUD, soft...
Bourne/Damon still has flat affect, but cleverly that was built into the character. The other members of the cast are quite good, especially David Strathairn. But why the two women turned on the gov and went over to his side, baffles me still.
clark
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