Borne Ultimatum

First movie had lit­tle to no shaky cam. Sec­ond movie had enough to annoy me and trig­ger my wife’s motion sick­ness. I guess I’ll be rent­ing the third movie some day when the wife’s not around then. Thanks for the warn­ing Les!

In response to SEB 30 Sec­ond Movie Reviews: “The Borne Ulti­ma­tum.” by Les.

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2 Comments

  1. ken says:
    August 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    I went to this movie with Denise and two friends. My very uncom­fort­able friend Steve remarked after the movie, “there was absolutely no slow part to that movie … outta my way!”

    I’ve only seen the shaky-cam used to good effect in a few places. For instance, the space sequences in Bat­tlestar Galac­tica. But shak­i­ness aside, this movie was thrilling action action action all the way through. There were plot points that were very intel­li­gently done. The pace kept ten­sion high, the action was really well chore­o­graphed, and there was exter­mely lim­ited use of the “he’s the hero/sacred cow, so he gets lucky a lot”.

    That said, don’t see this movie expect­ing a bril­liantly thought-out piece of art. There are some huge holes, and some typ­i­cal hol­ly­wood­isms. It might not be fair, but I hap­pened to watch Fel­low­ship of The Ring the day after going to see this, and it made me real­ize the myr­iad ways Bourne III fell short.

    But man, was there good action.

  2. Mark says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 am

    Which is pretty much all I expect out of any of the Bourne movies and why I’ll def­i­nitely end up rent­ing it. I may even rent it when Michelle is around, as shaky cam is much less a prob­lem for her on the TV than on the big screen.

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