The Bourne Trilogy

So I can't imagine why I didn't blog this as I went along, but I finally got to see the whole trilogy.  The final one I just saw last weekend.

So what can I say, yes the car chase in episode one is a good one, though a bit "Ronin".  Still not the best chase with a classic Mini, but close.  The best chase with a contemporary MINI is still "Noble Son".

I never really figured I'd be interested in anything written by Ludlum, my spy thrills are better fulfilled with Deighton's writing.  And if something is Hollywood and that big a hit, then I generally find it's just empty thrills and an incoherent storyline.  I was very mistaken with this one.  It's a good fun story, which holds together.  Yes, real thrill a minute, more relentless than the "Three Days of the Condor", more credible than Bond.  Sure the story is a bit of a cliche, spy drops out and wants to be a pacifist, doesn't even know who he is.  Still for such a story to cross into mainstream pop culture is a bit of a step.

Can't fault the lead trouser - Matt Damon, he delivers everything we used to get from Clint Eastwood, Michael Caine, Steve McQueen, but he does it a little different somehow, a little more modern.

The choice of leading ladies was good too.  I don't just mean the cute girls Franka Potente, or Julia Stiles but also Joan Allen as the CIA spy boss who finds out something wrong was being done, and fight her way through three movies to sort out the mess.

Worth watching all three.