I haven't been watching many movies lately. Really the only movies I see now are ones that I flip to on TV or ones that are on at a friends house. So to be completely honest the last movie I saw any part of was High School Musical. No offense but that movie was horrible. It was a huge downgrade from the movie I watched right before I saw that, Remember the Titans. Now that's a great movie and I think I'll go and watch it right now

Journal entry critique the critic

To be completely honest I don't read many film reviews. I just don't see the point to read them myself when I can ask someone else what either they thought of the movie or what a critic said about the movie. But I read the film review of the Bourne Ultimatum by Rex Reed of The New York Observer. I really only picked Rex because I liked his name, and he was writing about a movie that I liked so I thought I'd see what he had to say about it.
Right away Rex goes into great detail about the movie and writes a long paragraph describing the ins and outs of the movie. But the action was his favorite part about the movie by far.

The ingenious ways they die pump oxygen into the bloodstream of The Bourne Ultimatum, keeping you dizzy and creeping you out. Bring smelling salts.

This rex guy never seems to really saw anything that is of importance or of substance. He just goes on and on about what a great action movie this is, repeating the same thing over and over again. Rex seems to think that it is only about the action scenes in the movie, or if he doesn't he doesn't saw much to explain himself. The one time he does say something other than how the action was incredible, Rex makes a good point. Saying that through all the action the plot never stops.

In almost every action movie these days, the plot skids to a halt at random
points while the actors blow things up or beat the hell out of each other.
Here,
every single set piece—the cat-and-mouse game in Waterloo Station, the
rooftop
footrace in Tangier, the de rigueur car chase through the streets of
Manhattan—is shot and edited at Grand Prix speed, yet the film never loses
its
momentum, balance or sense of story and character.

When I was watching the movie I found myself imersed in all of the aciton but also liking the plot, and how it never seemed to take a backseat to the action of the film. The second of the points that I agree with Rex on is that the villians, or other assassins, are all played by very down to earth people. The movie makes the villian look just like us, blending in with their surroundings, and it just takes the moive to another level.

Unlike the grandiose, megalomaniacal archfiends in the James Bond franchise, the
assassins in the Bourne films have been played by some of our most
down-to-earth
character actors-

While Rex seems to think that this movie was incredible on many levels, and so did I, the way that he writes his review makes me not really want to go see it again. The review had little substance and was very repetitive. Everything in the review was about the action, or how great of an actor Matt Damon was (which he hinted at, and then finally put a whole paragraph on him) leaving the reader of this review to really question either going to see the movie or just how good the movie actually was. Rex uses way to many big words to look impressive, which really takes away from his review of the film.

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