Good action sequences but just SO unbelievable at times

Rating: 5/10 (18 December 2007)

The film as a whole is quite enjoyable for what it is but what really disappointed me was the sheer number of 'WHAT - how the hell could that have happened' moments in the film for me. To be a really good film, some element of believability needs to exist in context - in this there were moments which were just plain ridiculous. For example -when Bourne gets into the CIA guys office when the CIA guy is in a car supposedly going to meet him. DUH - was Bourne invisible or something to be able to just walk into the CIA HQ and up to the Deputy Directors office without being challenged?? And how did he know where the safe was in that office? Why, he just walked into the 'empty' building opposite, found himself the perfect 'empty' office overlooking the CIA guys office and watched him open the safe and somehow even knew that it was a voice code that opened it.
Far too many of these kind of blatant, lazy 'solutions' to situations that conveniently kept Bourne one step ahead of the bad guys in order to keep the film jogging along until it could wind itself up. Not bad but not good - certainly not the 8.3 out of 10 rating it gets on here!!