Reviewing The Bourne Trilogy

Anyone that calls themselves an action movie aficionado has seen the Jason Bourne movies.If you haven't,here is a brief summary of each movie(possible spoiler alerts)!

The Bourne Identity-2002

Our hero starts the movie by floating unconscious in some ice cold water off the coast of Europe,having been shot twice in the back and generally not digging life.We don't find out til much later how he ended up in this predicament and I'm not going to tell you until you're done watching the movie. After he is spotted in the water by a fishing boat, the kind old ship doctor takes a liking to Bourne and nurses him back to health.Along the road to recovery the doctor finds a small device embedded in Jason's hip that shoots a laser onto a surface displaying the account number and name of a bank in Zurich,Switzerland.

Once the fishing boat goes to port the doctor sends Mr. Bourne oh his way.Suffering from amnesia and with only the money in his pocket given to him by the good doctor,Bourne sets off to find out all the information about himself that he can.He discovers a safety deposit box under his name at the bank in Zurich that is filled with money,passports and a gun.What follows is the beginning to my favorite series of movies to date.If you're a movie fan looking for car chases,death and utter mayhem,you my friends have chosen the right movie.

I can't reveal any more of the story without ruining it,so I will leave you with saying that Bourne meets a friend and many enemies along the way.The story does a very good job of keeping itself fast paced and action packed yet still manages to contain enough information to not leave you confused and asking TOO many questions.Of course you will be left with a few head scratchers at the end of the movie,but that's the point.At the same time,if there had never been a sequel the ending to The Bourne Identity is satisfying enough to not make you want to storm Matt Damon's house demanding answers.

As part of my first major blogging decision I have decided to rate this series as a whole since it is basically one really long movie instead of three seperate ones.

The Bourne Supremacy-2004

The second installment of Jason Bourne's journey to find himself starts in India.After escaping pursuers chasing him through the armpits of Europe,Bourne meets up with a woman that he met in the first film and they run off to spend a blissful eternity together in the land of cows and curry.I didn't tell you about the woman before because it would have been a spoiler...but assuming you watched "Identity" before reading this like I instructed you to,you now know her name is Marie.The American's that were chasing our lovebirds in the first movie have gotten ahold of their location once again and it's not long into the movie before Marie and Jason are on the run again.

(side note; Marie got much better looking in the two years between "Identity" and "Supremacy"...kudos to her) It's really too bad that she doesn't last long enough to oogle at very much.Yes,I just told you she dies.Oops!I actually had to tell you that because it happens right at the beginning and without explaining this the movie would make no more sense than a drunken street bum.Now...after Marie becomes one with a dirty Indian river, Mr.Bourne gets genuinely enraged and sets out to wreak havoc on Europe once again.During the course of this movie he starts to re-gain memories that he had lost and begins to learn about who he was and what atrocities he had commited before he got shot in the back at the beginning of the first story.

The second movie ends with an apology from Jason Bourne to his first victim's daughter. He leaves the girl crying,and then promptly gets shot in the back once again as he is leaving the building(not by the girl but by a fellow assasin ordered to kill him).This movie does a great job at intertwining the first story with the second while introducing lots of new plot lines and charachters.If you have any ounce of intelligence you'll be able to follow right along.As for the rest of you,if you don't know what's going on by now you shouldn't be watching.

The Bourne Ultimatum-2007

The third and final(for now....more on this later) chapter of the Bourne Trilogy actually begins in a confusing manner.After having actually ended the last movie in New York,staring into Pam Landy's office, Bourne starts off the third movie in Russia again...shot in the back.When I first saw this my mind wanted to explode.I had just finished watching "Supremacy" and I didn't see how he could have gotten shot again in Moscow without some explanation as to how he got there.Then it clicked.The third movie actually starts during the end of the second movie.Capiche?Now that we have that cleared up it's back to business.

Jason starts having more flashbacks,this time to the very beginning of his life as Jason Bourne.At the end of the second story Pamela Landy,who has by now established herself as at least some sort of an ally in this backstabbing movie,tells Bourne that his real name is David Webb.Now that Bourne knows this he starts remembering being in a room where he was transformed into Jason Bourne by an old man with bushy eyebrows.

There is a new villain altogether in this last movie.He is the deputy director of the CIA and he's brought it upon himself to throw all of his resources at Bourne in an attempt to cover up secrets that were uncovered by a London reporter.He naturally thinks it is Bourne that is leaking secrets about the government so he wants them both assasinated.The storyline follows our hero in a valliant attempt to reclaim his life and set the record straight.What will happen?Will there be a 4th?You must watch...and find out.

(actually if you google you can find that there will indeed be a 4th movie and that Matt Damon has signed on for it.)

So there you have it. you now the basic plotlines of all three movies.You can probably tell already that i adored these movies but if you are dense in the head and need some re itteration here it is.The Bourne movies contain amazing jobs by the actors themselves,breathtaking views of much of Europe and New York City,top notch special effects and enough twists to make a roller coaster queasy.I give this movie my most impressive grade.5!

1-the worst.the bottom of the barrel..utter and complete failure(the machinist)
2-almost the worst.the director and producer should still feel ashamed(the new Saw movie)
3-dead average(aka Righteous Kill)
4-above average but with something missing(see Spiderman 3)
5-as good as it gets(Scarface,The Godfather,Training day)

That's all for now.Much,much more to come!