Recovered Fragments

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2004)

Spoilers herein.
One of the highest compliments I can give a movie is that the way it exists as a film. Some mainstream movies do this: `Mothman's vision was mothlike. `Van Helsing' had swoopers and swooped. `The Limey' was about revisiting and had mini-revisits in the edit. "Good Thief" was about a drugged perception of a hyperperceptive man.
Now we have a Ludlum story, originally about the chaos of partial memory and told in a manner that is the literary equivalent of handheld with inadequate information. Watch what's done here: the way it is shot and edited combines the hectic chase, the frantic fight and the dimly recalled narrative. Its a very clever and cinematic formulation: possibly the best car chase in movies, one of the best fights... and get this: Matt is tolerable, even apt.
They must be setting up Julia for number three.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.