Sep
19
2007
Dir: Paul Greengrass
Writ: Tony Gilroy ; Scott Z. Burns ; George Nolfi & Tony Gilroy
Based on the book by Robert Ludlum
- Matt Damon … Jason Bourne
- Julia Stiles … Nicky Parsons
- David Strathairn … CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen
- Scott Glenn … CIA Director Ezra Kramer
- Paddy Considine … Simon Ross
- Albert Finney … Dr. Albert Hirsch
- Joan Allen … Pamela Landy
Bourne is back. Or maybe it’d be more accurate to say taht he never really went away, as this film picks up even before the second in the series, The Bourne Supremacy, has finished. So it is worth your while making sure you’ve seen that before you take a look at this one. That being said it isn’t vital, you’ll pick up on a main plot soon enough, and while what you miss out on does add to the film it isn’t totally necessary as there is plenty of back story floating around in this film.
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Oct
03
2006
Dir: Clark Johnson
Writ: George Nolfi; based on the novel by Gerald Petievich
- Michael Douglas - Pete Garrison
- Kiefer Sutherland - David Breckinridge
- Eva Longoria - Jill Marin
If I’m totally honest, I’ve nothing really to say about this film. It wasn’t good. But it wasn’t bad. I went for the Kiefer-ness
Basic plot - there is a plot to kill the president and it seems that there is a mole in the Secret Service. So Sutherland’s Breckinridge is called in to follow the evidence. Which of course ends up pointing at Douglas’ Garrison. They used to be friends, but Breckinridge thinks that Garrison had an affair with his wife, so their relationship isn’t the best. Blah blah, cue dramatic music. Shoot-outs. high-tech gadgets and other bits and bobs.
It is a fairly competent thriller-type, but I really didn’t care. The problem may be that we all know that Douglas isn’t going to turn out to be the mole. And we all know that in the end Sutherland will figure this out. And we all know that a film like this will never actually kill off the president of the United States of America. And since we know all that, how on earth are we supposed to feel any tension or drama?
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