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Choosing four favourites isn't enough!
What's been fun about rewatching all the (Matt Damon!) Bourne films, is realising how understated their impact on film was.
This first film is remarkably unsexy when you look at it's set pieces; a Paris car chase in a mini, a one-on-one fight at a farm, hiding from marines in an American Embassy in Germany.
I'm not saying these aren't crazy, like who would even use an American embassy now?
But there's no crazy gadgets, no insane death tolls. It…
I'm currently in my Star Wars hyper fixation part of the year, and that gives me a positive bias (look at my prequel ratings). So seeing this just drown in it's amateurish haze is heartbreaking.
There's something so plastic and small about it's construction, and it's better to point to the thing that makes it so - it's format.
This needed to be a film, it should've been. What we have is six episodes of thinly stretched nothingness - none…
How are they walking on the moon with no spacesuits? Where did the robot come from? Who made the cheese? So many questions, a masterpiece sequel to 2001.