The Bourne Ultimatum review
Aug. 19th, 2007 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearMy brother suggested a spontaneous trip to the cinema last night, after our afternoon at the Tower of London with Bear. The Bourne Ultimatum was the only thing both of us were quite keen to see, so that was what we went for.
I was hampered slightly by the fact that I couldn't remember anything at all about the first two films, and I was left with lots of questions unanswered at the end, but overall it was pretty good. Lots of excitement, some interesting character insights, and Julia Stiles being very cute.
I still don't understand the reasoning behind the directing style, though. How it is a good thing for the camera to be jiggling about the whole time (even during close-up dialogue shots) and for half the shots to be taken from behind things so the characters' faces are obscured, or so close to the action that you can't tell what's going on?
I was hampered slightly by the fact that I couldn't remember anything at all about the first two films, and I was left with lots of questions unanswered at the end, but overall it was pretty good. Lots of excitement, some interesting character insights, and Julia Stiles being very cute.
I still don't understand the reasoning behind the directing style, though. How it is a good thing for the camera to be jiggling about the whole time (even during close-up dialogue shots) and for half the shots to be taken from behind things so the characters' faces are obscured, or so close to the action that you can't tell what's going on?
