What a load of hokum. All razzle-dazzle with no real story, no character development, no real movie. It's as if they spliced a lot of action sequences together with transition scenes that don't make any sense.
Some of the action sequences seem great until you think about them. I kept thinking to myself, over and over, Why are the characters doing this? What does this mean? And, most often: Huh?
Why is our hero in the Alaska wilderness? It's a training area. Is this a training exercise? No, that would make too much sense. Wait, he's not supposed to be there. But then... duh... why is he there?
The black ops agency is killing its own people. Why is that? It makes absolutely no sense. Does anyone care if it makes no sense? Does anyone read these scripts before these movies are shot?
How does our hero find the hot scientist babe? If the bad guys are there to kill her, why don't they just go ahead and kill her? Why try to fool her first? Or are they really trying to fool the audience? Ya think?
Our hero and the hot babe are on the run--a mad, scrambling, crazy run--away from the government bad guys (the government is always the enemy in these movies, for some reason) and they just happen to have a laptop computer with them? Huh? WTF? How did that happen?
(This movie treats the audience like morons, in the same way the black ops agency treats its field agents like morons.)
Wait, our hero had a low IQ, and now he's brilliant? How in hell does that work? Where do we get that pill?
What is all this hokum about a virus and, I guess, genetic engineering? The movie has some 'splainin' to do.
Most of it is confusing, silly and pointless. I did like a few scenes, and I do like going to the movies. But Lord, this is a load of crap.
Check your brain at the door. And don't ask too many questions.
These Bourne movies have gotten worse each time. The first one is pretty good, one of my favorite action films. Then they go downhill. Why is that? I think these movies are made to be stupid, for a younger and dumber audience. For an audience that is incapable of critical thinking.
In Hollywood, big dollars don't go with high IQs. The big studios, which have big bucks to invest in a blockbuster movie, don't care about intelligence or quality. They care about one thing: money.
So the movies get bigger and dumber. And so do the audiences. Hooray.
Welcome to the Big Brainless Blockbuster.
-- Roger
Copyright © 2012, Roger R. Angle
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