What a huge disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2007)

Please do not bother calling me names and sending me hate mail. I was so looking forward to this film, because I felt the other 2 were excellent films ( particularly the first). But I was so very disappointed with this one. I would never recommend it to a friend. For me, it was just one huge testosterone trip of car races, car crashes and physical violence. I wanted to leave the theater so many times but I was waiting for the sunshine to come through with the excellent acting of matt damon and joan allen. I wanted a significant amount of time allotted for us to look at their faces and see their feelings, their humanity, and watch their minds work and their characters develop.That happened for very brief flickers of time, countable on one hand. What a shame.
So many tired predictable plot elements and major plot details obviously thrown in for the sole purpose of allowing for a sequel. Dialogue was so boring, stereotypical, and just plain full of posturing.This film really insulted so many in its audience.
Boo hoo. damon and allen (and of course straitharn and glenn) are among our very best actors. yet this film was designed, written and edited such that acting was squeezed out; there just wasn't any time allowed for it. They just had to add in a 20th car chase, shooting, explosion,fight to the death etc etc to keep happy the largest summer movie-going population segment- teenage boys. So I'll just have to repeat-view the first Bourne film for Bourne satisfaction of the kind I am seeking.