Saturday, September 22, 2007

Bourne insanity - The Bourne Ultimatum Reviews

Bourne is a man in crisis. He can't remember his past. He is uncertain about his future. He needs to know the truth. He also has magic powers that would put Spiderman and Superman to shame. He leaps through the air, crashes through windows, drives off 10 story buildings, piles cars up like metal burritos, defies gravity and then miraculously walks away with only a limp. The holes in logic of this film defy description. We have a "Covert Op" of the CIA that apparently has the capability to control every camera, hear every cell phone, read every floor plan of every building ever made anywhere on the planet at any time...and yet.. Jason Bourne can walk right into their headquarters, steal top secret documents and then dematerialize like Frodo with a clocking device, without anyone even looking up from their laptop. Oh, did I mention that Bourne can travel at the speed of light? He can apparently move from country to country like most of us move from the refrigerator to the kitchen table. Not that he would ever need either one, because apparently he doesn't need to eat or drink. Anything. Ever. Some have tried to suggest that Bourne has a moral center. It's this "deep moral conscience" that forbids him from doing harm to anyone. Not anymore. He's had enough of that killing stuff. Really? He may feel bad about killing a fellow assassin but he has no qualms about driving a police car into oncoming traffic at 100 miles an hour. There are people in those cars. People with children, and babies in car seats, and grandmothers, and defenseless animals. The film is so worried about Bourne uncovering a plot by the "evil CIA" to kill 7 or 8 unsuspecting "US Citizens" that it forgets to notice that Jason is using a police car like a missile in rush hour traffic, putting hundreds of lives at risk. Not to mention thousands of dollars in increased insurance rates. If you ask me, if he wants to fight injustice, he can start there. This is just one more blurry, shakey-handy-cam attempt by Hollywood to promote their goofy "left wing conspiracy" mumbo-jumbo nonsense. My guess is that Bourne's next movie will have him out there combating global climate change. We'll just call it "Global Bourne-ing" and be done with it.

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