Days of Cinema

Style over substance. At first thought, it was a beautifully looking film, a stunning cinematography and out-of-this-world techs. I gotta say though, it was a bit intimidating watching all those bodies full of muscles. The problem with the film is it's obsessive intention of entertaining visually and not taking the responsability of recreating a beautiful epic story. We're not given much time to care about the characters, Snyder slightly introduces them and immediately tries to hide all the plotholes through bloody battles. The story is simply too shallow to entertain, unless you love video games, because to me, this was just a videogame. Unfortunately, we're not given the chance to touch the control. Most of the performances were over the top, except maybe for the lead actor, who I must admit was very funny, but sometimes unintentionally funny.

A stimulating thriller that will satisfy any fanboy of action flicks. I found this film to be as powerful in content as Scorsese's The Departed. You're probably wondering, why the low grade?, It is simple, is there any reason why Paul Greengrass is making us suffer with that hideous and horrible looking hand-camera work? Seriously, I'm not against these type of cinematography, but Greengrass uses it so excessively I got a headche. I began to wonder if Greengrass has the creativy to innovate, I mean, I know his trying to do so. All of his films look the same, not only the camera work, but also the editing and sound mixing. Matt Damon, he's an interesting actor, and shines on screen when doing action films, but I've always had a problem watching him. He never transmits anything through his eyes. At the end, The Bourne Ultimatum is successful, but also exhausting. I thought this was better than his oscar-nominated film United 93.