Movie Review – The Bourne Trilogy
A dear friend and a passionate fan of film asked me to write a review of The Bourne Ultimatum, but it has not been without updating the memory of the first film in the series of possible and actually saw the second. (For the cinematically challenged, it is clear that The Bourne Identity in 2002 was followed by The Bourne Supremacy in 2004 and the latest release, The Bourne Ultimatum this year should be). Now I got the second when it was released in Chandigarh missedand the third has not yet released here. So I watched all three in a row.
Each film can be viewed in isolation and enjoyed the good directors strive for. The action is high voltage, relentless and breathtaking. The second and third are similar and sometimes repetitive in this respect. Sometimes the director of the child seems more than anything else. His gaze made believable, can be enjoyed by all cinema lovers. Now this is where the purist in me beginsFlutter. Apart from the opening scene of Jason Bourne's recovery from the sea in one shot was half dead, the story does not resemble transition to the series of books. So guys like me who read the classics by Robert Ludlum in their college years is a problem. The emotional trauma of amnesia that he suspects is a murderess, is missing. The hero of the books is constantly at war with what he wants to be and not what they instinctively. I still remember the Koreanbattle cry of "Who Saw the first JB speaks in unarmed combat.
The books were the romance of the world in the era of Cold War espionage. "Carlos the Jackal" boys and inspired awe as Ludlum to weave compelling stories evokes for him. But Gorbochov played spoilsport and broke the evil empire. Illych Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos lost its steam and was arrested by the French. E 'therefore understandable that in the present context should not the original storygain acceptance by the cinema audience. The reasons for Carlos and the importance of his capture would have simply lost the MTV generation. So instead of deciphering the complexity of global espionage 70s, is now a greedy billionaire Russian oil that will be neutralized.
The love story between Bourne and Marie St. Jacques never really takes off. I'm constantly on the run in the first two films and the Madame was cheap at the beginning of the third. Nottingling scenes which is good, but not emotional development interests, love is disappointing. Only raw, heart-pounding action. Great to see, but I do not remember, some time after the film.