This week's movie review
Last week, Ty asked me what I do in Friday nights.
Well, I'm not one to sit around alone. It's a useful skill that I learned on vicarage at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in San Jose, California. The first few weeks I just sat in my house and watched Friday night television. After I started to hit Full House re-runs, I knew it was time to get out.
But I digress. Tonight I saw the movie The Bourne Supremacy. I liked the first one, so I thought I would give this one a try as well. I'm glad I made it to a matinee and only paid $4.00 to see this piece of junk.
The first did a great job of character development, bringing Jason Bourne from nothing to a checkered past to a realistic and believable hero. This time the flashbacks were all about his first mission and how he get's pulled into the current-day ramifications of that mission so many years ago. Not nearly as powerful as the first one.
Also, in this age of bluescreen, CGI, wire-fighting action, a classic action pic with car chases and human stunts just doesn't quite do it anymore. Not that I am a big fan of all The Matrix knock-offs now-a-days, but the 15 minute car chase has run it's course with the Dukes of Hazard. That, with the wobbly-camera work during action scenes that seems to be common now, almost sent me into an epilectic seizure.
This coupled with the fact that Jason Bourne is a character completely void of a sense of humor, and you have a movie that was hard to stay awake through...literally. If it hadn't been for the explosions, I would have dozed of a dozen times easy.
Unless you get free tickets or need something to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon and can catch a matinee for less that $5, wait to rent it...maybe.
Well, I'm not one to sit around alone. It's a useful skill that I learned on vicarage at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in San Jose, California. The first few weeks I just sat in my house and watched Friday night television. After I started to hit Full House re-runs, I knew it was time to get out.
But I digress. Tonight I saw the movie The Bourne Supremacy. I liked the first one, so I thought I would give this one a try as well. I'm glad I made it to a matinee and only paid $4.00 to see this piece of junk.
The first did a great job of character development, bringing Jason Bourne from nothing to a checkered past to a realistic and believable hero. This time the flashbacks were all about his first mission and how he get's pulled into the current-day ramifications of that mission so many years ago. Not nearly as powerful as the first one.
Also, in this age of bluescreen, CGI, wire-fighting action, a classic action pic with car chases and human stunts just doesn't quite do it anymore. Not that I am a big fan of all The Matrix knock-offs now-a-days, but the 15 minute car chase has run it's course with the Dukes of Hazard. That, with the wobbly-camera work during action scenes that seems to be common now, almost sent me into an epilectic seizure.
This coupled with the fact that Jason Bourne is a character completely void of a sense of humor, and you have a movie that was hard to stay awake through...literally. If it hadn't been for the explosions, I would have dozed of a dozen times easy.
Unless you get free tickets or need something to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon and can catch a matinee for less that $5, wait to rent it...maybe.
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