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The Bourne Legacy - Drunk Monk - 08-08-2012
If they made a movie about 009, would you watch it? How about if 009 was chemically enhanced to have super human skills?
This has a great cast and great cinematography, but it's a weird spin on the Bourne franchise. Renner and Weitz have a good chemistry, especially at the beginning, and Norton is always satisfactory. The rest of the cast are mostly cameos. I was entertained, but the nods to Jason Bourne became distracting. The fights are okay, a tad too frenetic with the camera work, and a lot of wirework parkour. There's an arch villain that emerges in the latter part of the film that has incredible potential for some serious mano-a-mano (if that went to a sword fight, this film would have been stupendous) but it ends up in a motorcycle duel. This would make a good rental or netflix streamer, but don't have incredibly high expectations, especially if you are attached to the original Bourne Trilogy. This has very little to do with that at all.
Re: The Bourne Legacy - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-10-2012
Haven't seen the movie, just reading the review. I have a quibble. When did Sean Connery star in Casino Royale?
oh crap - Drunk Monk - 08-15-2012
you're right. been juggling too many axes lately. i'll have that fixed first thing tomorrow. thanks!
Re: The Bourne Legacy - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-15-2012
And I don't think there have been four Casino Royales. I know of two, unless there was a third on TV.
Re: The Bourne Legacy - cranefly - 08-15-2012
Oh dear.
I'm not a very careful copyeditor of late...
fixed - Drunk Monk - 08-16-2012
There were 3 Casino Royales. The first one was really rare, a pre-Broccoli film.
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Re: The Bourne Legacy - cranefly - 08-27-2012
Well, I had a free movie ticket that was only good at a Regal theater, and there's one at Jack London Square just two blocks from Sungevity. So when I went up for that, I decided to go early and catch a movie. I would have preferred seeing the new Batman, but it wouldn't get out in time. So I went to The Bourne Legacy, because I've enjoyed the one or two Bourne flicks I've seen.
DM was right about the Asian arch villain who appears late. Appearance-wise, he just reeks of Hong Kong fuey. But as DM says, the climax is a very long chase scene through Bangkok (I don't think it's Bangkok, but I'm blanking on it), mostly done on motorcycles, and it never goes to hand and foot. Let me repeat. It never goes to hand and foot. Something happened in the making of that climactic battle. I can't imagine this was how it was originally envisioned. Did someone get hurt? Did they look over the rushes of the hand-to-hand combat and realize it was unusable and they didn't have time to reshoot? Why this Asian bad-ass dude in the first place if he doesn't try to chop the socks off the new-Bourne? Admittedly a lot of work went into the chase scene, but it didn't feel at all inspired. It felt like cobbled-together chase sequences from some video game, and I caught myself daydreaming and looking away from the screen halfway through it.
I might be saying a bit too much from here on, so a spoiler alert should be given.
There was a sequence in the early going involving a Predator drone. Predator drones are spooky as hell. I fear them. I fear the future of this country should our Government get out of hand, because any uprising by the people won't stand an effing chance. Not with Predator drones above. They fly so high you can't see them, you can't hear them, you can't shoot them down. But with their incredible cameras and sensing devices they can find and destroy anyone on the ground. That's effing spooky.
So in The Bourne Legacy, there's this Predator drone after the new-Bourne. It flies down low, edging around hills and valleys, dips in and around trees, and it's noisier than the four-engine P-3 Orion turboprop submarine hunters that used to fly in and out of Moffett Field all the time. This Predator makes a huge roar when it passes by. And because it is flying so ridiculously low, it's vulnerable -- not just to anti-aircraft fire, even to a rifle.
Why? Why did they change it like this? How did the Predator come to lose its spook? Either the director or the producer or some crazed foley expert must have decided it needed to be close and noisy and super-maneuverable for the greatest suspense. Whoever it was, they deserve a good dose of death from above.
I noticed other similar cases of foley folly that destroyed much of the suspense in certain scenes, but the Predator was the worst offense.
All in all, I suppose it was entertaining enough, and I like Renner and feel he does a good job, but ultimately it felt lacking in several areas.