Matt Damon is a busy guy. And he's perfectly cast as the central character in the "Bourne" series. This trilogy completing installment is just as good as the other two. The high pitched action is directed by Paul Greengrass who also did "Bourne Supremacy".The nearly seamless action is beautifly shot, too. Comparison could be made to James Bond, but 007 was always fighting foreigners. Here the villain is the CIA. Conservatives will see the movie as: "there's those Hollywood liberals again making Americans out to be 'the bad guys', even if it's just "a few bad apples" . . . it's all pretty familiar stuff. Remember "Seven Days Of The Condor" had Robert Redford being hunted by the CIA because he was onto something that might threaten "the American way of life", like screwing with the world oil supply. Cliff Robertson laid it out perfectly in a rant at the end of that movie.
It is a hackneyed theme, alright. The way the movie ended it certainly looked that more "Bourne" will be coming along. But there will have to be a totally different plot-line.
Directed by Paul Greengrass, USA 2007 8/10
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I saw this movie and I think you have it just right.
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