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 Wednesday, August 15, 2007
OK the movie has been out for a couple of weeks now, so if you haven't seen it and don't want to know what happens, stop reading now. I'm not going to detail the plot in depth, but some of the things about this movie that irked me happen later in the movie so they are considered spoilers.

In general, I really like the Bourne franchise. They are not the typical "explosions every two seconds" type of faire. Typically, Bourne is trying to escape from most conflicts, and is most likely to be found scaling a wall to disappear than setting elaborate traps to catch people.

I think the essence of Bourne vs. Bond is that Bond is chasing people while Bourne is being chased.

That being said, I went to see this movie opening night. In general I liked it. My one major gripe with it is that it left a lot of questions unanswered. I was expecting to leave the theater having all the major plot lines closed in a neat little package. Instead it ends kind of mysteriously, with a couple of lose ends hanging. Some say this leaves open the possibility of another movie. I doubt there will be another, so it's just annoying.

Some of the major questions left hanging were:
a) Why did Bourne volunteer for Treadstone? What was the old him running from that made him agree to give up "David Webb" for good and become Jason Bourne?
b) It appears the director of the CIA, who knew about Black Briar and was trying to set up Pamela Landy to take the blame for it all got off Scott-free at the end. So he is at least one significant bad guy who is still at large and can come after Jason Bourne again in the future.
c) What was the secret relationship between Julia Style's character and Bourne? At one point she says to him "So you really don't remember anything from before?" and he says "No". But that is never brought up again. Were they romantically linked in the past?

Anyways, all in all I enjoyed the film. But if it really is supposed to be the end of the series, you'd think these plot holes would be filled in for the viewer, instead of just alluding to something and never delivering the goods.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:36:24 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Comments [1] -
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