08-08-2012, 10:54 AM
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.
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.
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