Almost very good

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2004)

Saving myself the summary...
Fast-paced action flick, which I enjoyed very much, despite its flaws. The car chase in Moscow must rank among the most violent ever filmed. Are these Russian cars really built like tanks?
Flaws, inter alia:
1) The camera work: the director overdid the 'shaky' bits. First, it make you nauseous when you're exposed to it on a large screen (and I saw it on a LARGE screen). It's OK for TV and NYPD, but not here. The nausea plus the overuse of the effect diminishes its impact in those instances where it could have been useful. It was a lousy directorial decision.
2) Why did they have to kill off Marie? To motivate Bourne? Cliché, and in your face - and that basically means crappy, lazy story-telling. I could think off-hand of at least five other, less stereotypical, ways of achieving the same aim; can't you? Or was it just because the screenwriters didn't know what to do with the romance angle? Does God exist? Who invented the doggy-bag? Some questions have no answers, I guess.
Never mind. I still enjoyed it, and didn't consider it a waste of either my money or my time.
3.5/5
Till Noever
Author: KEAEN, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, www.owlglass.com