Mmmm Matt.
It can’t get better than Bourne 3, with 2 hours of watching Matt Damon run back and forth across the screen like pac-man in heat.
OK, I liked it. Of course. Paul Greengrass is genius. That car scene is even better than Russia 2004.
That said, I do have some notes.
First off, this movie is non other than one long third act chase. The entire sequence of events really just builds on what we missed in 2. The character doesn’t develop and when Bourne finally gets to meet his maker in the stark New York City office, he does nothing about it. This moment should have come at midpoint and the second half of the movie would take us beyond the CIA and into a world where Bourne made the decisions that brought him here today. Even the key art suggests we’d get some of the answers to these questions.
An American hero who kills to save the lives of others. How poignant could you get? Very, if only you would have illuminated it ultimately for us.
