Friday, August 17, 2007

Bourne Ultimatum

I found time between romancing fat women and playing soccer to take in a movie in Boston. I checked out The Brattle, which is an independent theatre, but they were playing Meatballs so instead I stopped by the Loews in the square (Harvard that is). Couldn't find the pregnancy movie so instead I watched the Bourne Ultimatum. I had previously seen one of the other Bourne movies and was pleasantly surprised to find myself interested and entertained.

This manifestation of Bourne is interesting because the director or whoever hired a pretty good consultant that did a heckuva job making sure the little details about the spy business be correct. Whether choosing routes to walk to avoid cameras in London to using passersby as diversions or buying pre-paid telephones the movie let itself wonk out.

What's more, the movie included a rogue black-ops CIA office that was just amazing to watch. The people who ran it, the way they talked of drawing up rendition protocols and sneak'n'peeks really let me visualize (correctly or no) what I imagine to be happening in a case like Maher Arar.

The other thing I wanted to mention, since I just watched this Bourne thing, is there any movie I can't get on the internet anymore? No. Unequivocally no. There is no movie not currently residing on the internet waiting for me to find it and download it (in your face grammar).

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