adminFilm: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, rob Yang, Michael Cernes, Larry Stoll, Shan Jacobson, Oliver Isaac, Robert Ludken.
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cinema: Rainbow town
Running time: 127 minutes
Type of film: Action/Espionage
Age restriction: Adults only.Prof Joel White
At the Movies
More than any film of recent vintage, the “Bourne Ultimatum” which put the actor Matt Damon in the role of Jason Bourne on everyone’s tongue about seven years ago, we have here a film which serves to support Hollywood’s claim of keeping one step — or more — ahead of the times.
The producers, in their willingness to spend almost a half billion United States dollars, have (to use an expression from my hometown, New York) “put their money where their mouth is.”
From the start, and moving rapidly across the globe, we are introduced to the effort, and the methods, that virtually every country with the means and even some without are using to assert themselves on the world’s stage.
Possibly embarrassing to the American government’s leaders, the US is depicted as using any means the fouler the more likely to succeed to spy on the world’s armament capabilities.
Sensibly, because painting with such a broad brush can sometimes leave an audience in the dark no pun intended we see virtually everything filtered through the eyes and efforts of two stellar actors, Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz.
The former, born in America in 1972, is new to me; whereas Rachel Weisz, age 42 and London born, has made several films with Israeli motifs.
I cannot recall a film whose photography is as unrelentingly spot — on reflecting the director’s claim: “we shot it as often as necessary till we got it right.”
Moving from country to country with inordinately expensive crowd scenes and local colour, the film deserves applause for refraining from cutting corners.
I urge especially action fans to see a film which will be talked about for years to come.
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