Originally posted: August 5th, 2007
Ahem...Director Paul Greengrass suffers from a little-known disease of which the lone symptom is a chronic inability to distinguish between a tripod and a paint mixer.
Yes, I just saw the new third Jason Bourne movie. Just like the rest of the series, it was great overall. Overall. BUT, just like the second one, the action scenes were the one part that blew. Scratch that, the action scenes were probably just as great as the rest of the movie, except I couldn't tell because the camera was spinning around so damn much I couldn't see what the hell was going on. It sure sounded like cool things were happening, though.
Interestingly, the first movie (not counting a version from 1988 that apparently exists - I haven’t seen that one yet) didn't have that problem. Turns out that was a different director, Doug Liman. For the second movie, Liman stuck to the producing side and handed the director role over to the caffeine junkie known as Paul Greengrass.
If there's ever another Bourne movie, please, Doug, kick Paul's ass to the curb and direct it yourself, okay? Better yet, redo the second and third movies yourself (maybe a "Producer's Cut"). I would really like to finally see what happened during those super-awesome action scenes.
1 comment for "The Bourne Ultimatum or Shaky-Cam-O-Rama 2 or Paul Greengrass Needs to be Fired"
Hmm, interesting, thanks for post.