Bourne | review

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A few weeks back I watched the Bourne trilogy with my father, who have had the series recommended by a friend. It is an action thriller starring Matt Damon and it is surprisingly good. Normally I find action-thrillers rather dull, as I do not watch movies for the action but for the story, for the characters, the set-up and the plot. Similarly I do not tend to read crime novels more than once. Once the culprit has been revealed and the last threads have been knotted together, I loose interest in the story. This trilogy was different, however.

The story begins on a boat in the middle of the night. Upon discovering an unconscious man in the ocean, the crew members of a boat rescue him from the water, the bullets in his back and a tiny laser pointer showing the man's bank information. As he wakes up he is disturbed by a throbbing headache, a considerable memory loss and weird instincts that makes him a robotic killer machine if he needs it. Bit by bit he tries to discover who he is and what has happened to him, while a secret organization tries to terminate him for things he cannot remember he has done, or rather not done. 

Throughout the story we, as the seers, connect with the main character, Jason Bourne, on a deeper level than we normally would, due to him suffering from amnesia. Together with Jason we dig up his past through the three films, and together with him we have to deal with the dilemmas of his past, have to decide whether we are with or against him once we get the facts. This makes the story much deeper than I had firstly anticipated, as I thought the movies were like the James Bond series or like Mission Impossible where the main characters are one dimensional and the plot either too much and ill-founded, or too much and crude. 

Contrary to James Bond and Ethan Hunt, Jason Bourne has real character. Also, his relationship to women is much better and more interesting and more realistic than the two mentioned characters. Bond fools around with any woman he meets, ever. This is annoying and is very, very sexist. Ethan on the other hand is so perfect and it is just too freaking much, in my opinion. His feelings, the love of his life and his perfectly nice and proper personality is just too much. Jason Bourne on the other hand loves one girl, but again in a way that is far more realistic than Ethans, and I like this very much. He might not treat her perfectly, but that is just it. He is in a stressed situation and he has to think of their safety before her feelings. He does this because he likes her, not to be mean. Therefore I prefer Jason to Ethan and Bond. 
Moreover, who doesn't like a super cool, invincible ninja?

In every movie there is at least one car-chasing scene, and as they are a bit lengthy they get sort of boring in my opinion, but I am not very into that as it mostly consists of a lot of noise and wrecked vehicles and infrastructure. 
Apart from car-chasing there is also some pretty cool fighting scenes in every movie - both with and without guns. And as already mentioned Jason Bourne can be a killer-machine if he wants to, and has quite a bit of ninja-skill too, but his opponents are of similar skill, which only add to the enjoyment.  

Lastly I have to mention the cinematograhy which is quite beautiful; quite a few stunning shots of various cities gives the seer a nice overview of the storyline and nice breaks in the action. But not only landscape shots make these movies pretty; also the individual set-ups really add to the overall cinematographic feeling of the movie. There has gone series thought into every detail - considering both the plot and the shots - and it is this that makes the movies stand out in comparison to other movies of the same genre.

Overall very thrilling and entertaining films I would definitely watch again.