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The Bourne Supremacy – 2 Stars (Average)
In a CIA sting in Berlin two agents get murdered and a former agent, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), is framed for the hit. Bourne was in India with his girlfriend at the time, having dropped out of the CIA after suffering amnesia.
The sting gone wrong was an inside job, which was one of CIA's own, just not Bourne. In the meantime, the CIA wants Bourne dead, and so does the ruthless cartel that was paid to frame him.
This is an action adventure, and not a bad start to a movie, but the presentation suffers because it is too hard to follow the story line, the sound is terrible (you just cannot hear much of the movie without turning up the volume very high), and the main auto chase scene in the movie is beyond ridiculous.
Yes, there are cars crashing everywhere, but what happens during the chase is just stupid. Why is it that in the movies, always, always, always, there are 5,000 cops and police cars chasing the wronged victim, and the police officers chasing the "bad guy" are cast as idiots?
The police in The Bourne Supremacy are presented as dumber than a rock when, in real life, just the opposite is true, as the criminal is more often than not captured because he is dumb.
This flaw in movie making hurts the reality of the presentation in a suspenseful drama, and makes it tougher to swallow. Please, leave the dumb, bungling cop routine for comedies (I believe we call this associating appropriately).
Catch Me If You Can – 2 Stars (Average)
This movie is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. who successfully conned millions of dollars by impersonating a pilot, physician and legal prosecutor, and he did this all before his 19th birthday. Abagnale was nothing if not very bright, and even more clever than bright considering his age.
Catch Me If You Can stars Leonardo DiCaprio (the pursued) and Tom Hanks (the pursuer), both former Academy Award winners. Catch Me If You Can has a great story line, but it is not a great film. In a word, it was disappointing.
This great chase has its moments, just too few of them. Both DiCaprio and Hanks are miscast in this film; the casting director should be demoted. The script is suspect too because it is disjointed and lacks believable depth.
The Breakfast Club – 2 Stars (Average)
This film focuses on five teens who spend all day Saturday in detention at a high school. They arrive not knowing each other and leave as new friends, having experienced some personal growth as their self-defense mechanisms crumble under the stress and proximity of the situation.
They are Andrew the Jock (Emilio Estevez), Brian the Brain (Anthony Michael Hall), John the Criminal (Judd Nelson), Claire the Princess (Molly Ringwald) and Allison the Kook (Ally Sheedy).
The Breakfast Club was written and directed by John Hughes. The number of awards this film received was zero, zip, nada (or, you might say, average).
This is a film about the interpersonal relationships among the teenagers, all of whom suffer from difficult relationships with their parents.
The impact of the parents' treatment and expectations is more than evident, and underscores how impressionable teenagers are at this point in their understanding and maturity about life.
The Christmas Child – 2 Stars (Average)
A Chicago journalist goes to a small Texas town on an assignment with another motive in mind, to find out about his past. He was adopted and wants to find his roots.
His marriage is on the rocks when he arrives, and by struggling to find his past, and confronting the truth, he finds himself and saves his marriage. This film could be on the Hallmark channel, as there is no filth, no violence and no sex to mess up a good story line with some surprise happenings.
Arsenic and Old Lace – 2 Stars (Average)
A drama critic discovers that his two elderly aunts are helping their male callers by poisoning them with arsenic and burying them in the basement. Their nephew who is mentally ill and apparently harmless, digs the graves in the basement and believes that he is President Teddy Roosevelt.
This film, made in 1944 (the year I was born), is in black and white; color films had not yet been perfected. Arsenic and Old Lace stars Cary Grant in what must have been his first film, or one his first films, as his performance is not star quality.
The film is funny and gives a real snapshot of how the movie business has changed in a half century.
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