Films featuring
Joan Allen

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Monday, January 14th, 2008

You start down this path, where does it end?

It was probably inevitable, but a faint hint of repetition has crept into the Jason Bourne franchise. This third movie feels an awful lot like the second, but that’s not entirely a bad thing. There is enough energy to what’s happening on screen that you don’t notice the similarity between the two films.

Matt Damon; The Bourne Ultimatum

Of course, film franchises thrive on a bit of familiarity but we can at least hope that they have the sense to stop long before they have to use ever-increasing numbers of stunt persons to double a geriatric Matt Damon.

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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Monday, December 17th, 2007

It’s not a mistake. They don’t make mistakes. They don’t do random.

Given his initials, it’s probably not a stretch to think that Robert Ludlum was inviting comparisons between his character Jason Bourne and Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Not being a huge reader of Ludlum’s novels, I’m not able to comment on the literary character, but as played by Matt Damon, Jason Bourne exists as almost a complete antithesis to the cinematic character of Bond.

Matt Damon; The Bourne Supremacy

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Yes (2004)

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

There’s no such thing as nothing, not at all.

Sally Potter, the writer and director of Yes, has Something Important to say. Sadly, whatever message she was attempting to deliver gets lost among the gimmicks that call too much attention to themselves. It doesn’t help that the main characters are hollow ciphers asked to carry the burdens of their respective cultures.

Yes

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