Friday afternoon came to me earlier than planned as my boss let me out for the long weekend. Freedom!
I headed home on the bus (which was surprisingly more packed than the usual crowd…perhaps EVERYONE was getting off early?) and picked up a stack of comics from Mike, picked up a case of beer and stumbled upon a great sale of movies at Rogers Video where each movie was $10. That was a steal of a deal considering some of them were priced at $16.99. I also like buying previously viewed movies at a low price and then when Blockbuster eventually gets around to buying back movies at a minimum of $8, I bring back a stack of ones that I can do without and in the end, I don’t pay too much to rent them. In this case, my cost would be $2 to rent them instead of the $6 they usually go for.
I said farewell to Mike who was heading out for a grand weekend of cottage fun with his friends and then settled onto the couch for the rest of the night. It was going to become the start of a good long weekend. I perused some comics, had some beer and lit up the BBQ.
I popped in The Bourne Ultimatum and anticipated the wild ride. I had heard nothing but great things about this film. Turns out that they were all correct in their reviews. Once again, Jason Bourne took me on a high paced ride with some good chase scenes and some good insights into Jason Bourne’s story. The formula works. You have an assassin with no memory and every film he gets a little bit of the memory back. I haven’t read the novels yet and I heard they are slightly different than the films. So I can’t comment on how much they differ, but what I can comment on is that the Jason Bourne films are definitely up there in fun times as much as the James Bond series.
I also enjoy the camera work in the Bourne films…I think the erratic hand held cam style of filming started with The Bourne Supremacy and I enjoy it for it’s fast paced “I feel like I’m there watching Bourne kick some ass!” feel.
Two thumbs up. Three thumbs up because Julia Stiles was in the film as a brunette. Meow.