Jason Bourne--Avert your eyes if you haven't seen the movie
we just saw this and I agree completely. The last 40 minutes or so was really tedious and silly. And the female lead (who I just found out was Alicia Vikander) was so boring she made me want to go to sleep.
Few things
When hiding from the closed circuit camera world, do not try to make your hair look different, or wear a hoodie.
If you have a bunch of really secret stuff, spanning years, keep it all in one subdirectory so it can be easily copied.
Movie was great....
Motorcycle, then the Swat truck chase, excellent....
yeah its not up there with Citizen Kane or The Seventh Seal or criterion collection worthy by any means, but its a good popcorn movie. Took my father (he watches any Bourne movie on any channel any time its on) to see it at amc on route 10 sunday morning. $11.35 for 2 tickets. $12.75 for 2 bottles of water and a box of junior mints.
My wife and I thought it was a blast. Enjoyed every minute of it. All these movies are two-hour chase scenes with some spy jargon and psychobabble thrown in. I'm not sure what else people might be expecting.
I typically like this kind of movie but this one was just really boring the 2nd 1/2 and I thought Vikander was completely dull & uncharismatic.
To me, he was too unrelated in this one. The chase-to-face ratio was maybe 7-to-3 in the preceding Bournes. And I had no complaints. The boat captain who fished him out of the water. The fellow "asset" who connected as he lay dying by saying "look what they make us do" or something like that. The German actress love interest with her watchful, intelligent face studying this Bourne guy. Pamela what's-her-name getting it the same way Bourne gets it. There are grace note moments sprinkled between the chase scenes in the right amount in the other Bourne moves.
But here, the ration was maybe 9-to-1 tipped toward chase. Maybe if they had let Julia Stiles stick around.
I thought it was fun, but maybe not quite as fun as the others.
conandrob240 said:
And the female lead (who I just found out was Alicia Vikander) was so boring she made me want to go to sleep.
I sort of agree with this. She didn't make me want to sleep, but her character was not compelling at all, which detracted from my overall enjoyment of the movie.
Alicia should maybe have let her real accent show throughout. Consistently.
It's not her fault that her part as written was almost 100% icky.
And it's not her fault that what she was brilliant at--pecking away on her computer to hack into other people's digital life--is such an unappealing, un cinematic thing to be brilliant at.
It's the screenwriters fault.
Images of other people on their computers--these should not be in movies.
This is my new rule.
For VI, maybe he can become aware that he has a child. Or the bad guys could kill his brother leaving brothers child an orphan. I just think a little moss makes the stone's hurtle down the mountain more interesting.
breal said:
For VI, maybe he can become aware that he has a child. Or the bad guys could kill his brother leaving brothers child an orphan. I just think a little moss makes the stone's hurtle down the mountain more interesting.
Could not possibly disagree more. The only thing more boring than the throw-a-kid-into-the-mix-to-shake-things-up trope is...hmm...nope, that one IS the most boring.
He's more compelling when he's protecting something, Brick Pig. That's his genius, for ill or good.
Loved I, II, and III. That other Bourne, Jeremy Renner, was fine in IV, don't get me wrong, and I always like Rachel Weiscz (sp?)--but I was not in to IV the same as I-III. So, I was psyched to see Matt Damon back in the role again, for V.
Saw it last weekend. Matt was fine, just fine. Great opening scene, the same one that gave the viewer such a charge in the trailer.
And the move kept rollicking along for about half an hour. There was that Julia Stiles techie woman from the first three movies, gone rogue but still doing techie stuff to save the world.
And then, after about the first half hour, the narrative sputtered.
Script doctor brain trust, answer me this: Why?
If something about the story / script needed tweaking, what?