good or no good?
WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM, I'D ADVISE YOU NOT TO READ ON.
in the beginning, when bourne was in italy and the guys went to arrest him, the fight scene happened and ended so quickly i wanted to rewind. it's exactly the same kind of schizophrenic direction that made me enjoy the first one; remember the scene with the german cops how he starts with nothing and ends with a gun and two unconscious german cops? and he's like 'wtf?' this time he's not like wtf. it was fucking fantastic. it also reminded me of the misplaced scene in 'the last samurai' where tom cruise suddenly has two kitanas and four bodies around him. exact same speed and precision. man..
and i want one of those SIM chip rippers. BADLY.
my girlfriend made a very good point: when bourne gives the old man the .32 instead of killing him (yes, it was a very small handgun), it would have been better if the gun were empty. imagine the irony of pam coming in and seeing him there drunk and saying "blah blah i'm a patriot" and putting the gun to his chin and *click*. asshole deserved not to get off so easy.
loved the car chase scene. i'm glad to see how the guy got FUCKED UP when bourne turned his $90k mercedes sideways and shoved it into that partition. asshole deserved that, too.
"you look tired, pam; get some rest."
what a way to end... A fucking plus.
two complaints:
1) in the beginning, though, and this is the big inconsistency, bourne told marie she was gonna be driving. when they lost track of the guy they switched. bourne knew full well the dude would snipe him. by putting his 'loved one' in the driver's seat he got her killed. purposely. the character is supposed to be a thirty million dollar autonomous killing machine, right? he knew. how can he reasonably take out that anger on anyone but himself?
2) when he spoke to the daughter, near the end of the film, he should have poured out some of his own misery to psychologically bring her to his side. it wasn't 'apologetic' enough the way it came out. remember in the first film when he said he didn't want to do it anymore (and you get to see it's because he saw the african political leader's kids) you learn that he feels guilt, sorrow. that was not adequately expressed.
thoughts?
~ dan ~
WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM, I'D ADVISE YOU NOT TO READ ON.
in the beginning, when bourne was in italy and the guys went to arrest him, the fight scene happened and ended so quickly i wanted to rewind. it's exactly the same kind of schizophrenic direction that made me enjoy the first one; remember the scene with the german cops how he starts with nothing and ends with a gun and two unconscious german cops? and he's like 'wtf?' this time he's not like wtf. it was fucking fantastic. it also reminded me of the misplaced scene in 'the last samurai' where tom cruise suddenly has two kitanas and four bodies around him. exact same speed and precision. man..
and i want one of those SIM chip rippers. BADLY.
my girlfriend made a very good point: when bourne gives the old man the .32 instead of killing him (yes, it was a very small handgun), it would have been better if the gun were empty. imagine the irony of pam coming in and seeing him there drunk and saying "blah blah i'm a patriot" and putting the gun to his chin and *click*. asshole deserved not to get off so easy.
loved the car chase scene. i'm glad to see how the guy got FUCKED UP when bourne turned his $90k mercedes sideways and shoved it into that partition. asshole deserved that, too.
"you look tired, pam; get some rest."
what a way to end... A fucking plus.
two complaints:
1) in the beginning, though, and this is the big inconsistency, bourne told marie she was gonna be driving. when they lost track of the guy they switched. bourne knew full well the dude would snipe him. by putting his 'loved one' in the driver's seat he got her killed. purposely. the character is supposed to be a thirty million dollar autonomous killing machine, right? he knew. how can he reasonably take out that anger on anyone but himself?
2) when he spoke to the daughter, near the end of the film, he should have poured out some of his own misery to psychologically bring her to his side. it wasn't 'apologetic' enough the way it came out. remember in the first film when he said he didn't want to do it anymore (and you get to see it's because he saw the african political leader's kids) you learn that he feels guilt, sorrow. that was not adequately expressed.
thoughts?
~ dan ~
