#52
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by TheOnes » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:46 pm
Given this is the second Bourne film i've seen (friend took me to see Bourne Ultimatum when it came out. Havn't seen it since), i was pretty lost at a few points. Ie: I only knew the first 20 minutes took place at the same time as the previous movie as i remembered bits and pieces from the 3rd film (Waterloo shooting, the control room hunting Bourne, etc) and it did a pretty good job of setting up and exploring consequences of Bournes actions through different angles via the Norton Man. However certain threads kind of lost me along the way. The whole problem with the [spoiler]med's and the crisis "your still on greens, they viraled everyone, etc"[/spoiler] just left me confused as i felt it went by too fast and didn't explain much. I couldn't get invested in that conversation as i didn't know what those meds were for. However i excused it as i assumed it was explored in the other movies and i should've watched them beforehand
Other than threads like that it seemed to have great structure to start off with. Things didn't seem to happen which either disrupted or didn't contribute to the flow of the story. Things seemed to happen naturally, including exposition (i felt it had a very real world quality where characters seemed to ask about things at the right time and get information in a way thats not convenient, not for the sake of the audience knowing about it but still feeding them). Full scenes seemed to hand off pretty well. And i really loved seeing the process the C.I.A (i think) was taking on hunting Aaron and the doctor from the house. They really seemed to figure things out and analyse like people really would, instead of the typical: "Derpie doo the computer triangulated signals from Aarons gold teeth inside a metal container the size of a train". They sourced evidence and went through everything manually and you really believed the logic behind the conclusions they were coming to based on great set up and development. But IMO it completely fell apart when they hit the Philippines.
The sudden of inclusion of a [spoiler]new hit man with a glazed over backstory who seemed to be a grunt while the department can relax and play chess for a while[/spoiler], boring action where somehow i didn't care what was happening and it was the worse shaky cam ever (normally don't mind it as much as anyone, but this time it just annoyed the hell out of me). The viral being built up as being impossible and theoretical and a reason why they hadn't done it for the blue meds yet seemed to be relatively easy to create, administer and take effect, and we never see any markup or increase in performance or a consequence from this. Which made it seem like a wasted plot point. And then the movie just stops with a lack of resolution or a checkpoint to have a reason to end. It was just like: "We ran out of footage. Don't worry we'll have more in a few years".
So to sum up.
First Half- Great structure, effort to catch on but slightly explained for new comers and great dialogue and tension 8/10
Second Half- Lazy action, structure turned into a mess like TDKR, development seemed to be chucked out the window and let the film down 4/10
Overall-6/10
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Some amazing stunt work and the chase scenes were excellent!
was very good in the part and was very easy on the eye! 
