Movie Review: **** The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

 The action continues, but we start with a tragedy.  Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), head of Treadstone is intent on getting Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) based on something he might remember.  The frame him for a CIA operation that went bad.  They then someone to kill Bourne.  Instead of killing him, they kill his girl, Marie (Franka Potente).  So Bourne is back and needing answers.  Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) now works high up in the CIA.  She and Nicky (Julia Stiles) are trying to get to the bottom of things.  Again Bourne is chased by the world, and finally things turn on Cox, who instead of being arrested does himself in.  Bourne is equal to the tasks of those who are sent to kill him, and he finally gets the person who pulled the trigger that killed his girl, Kirill (Karl Urban).  Some memories return for Bourne.  He is able to apologize to the daughter of a couple he murdered.  

Movie Review: **** Bourne Identity (2002)

 The Bourne movies are action from start to finish.  This is th first of a series.  Bourne (Matt Damon) has botched an assassination attempt, an was shot in the back twice.  He is fished from the ocean by some fishermen, and they save his life.  He does not know who he is, but they discover a chip in his. body with a safe deposit box number.  There he finds cash and passports from several countries with his picture and the name Jason Bourne.  He recruits a young woman, Marie (Franka Potente) for a ride.  However his former boss, Conklin (Chris Cooper) of Treadstone is not willing to let him go.  Conklin's boss is Ward Abbott (Brian Cox).  They send several assassins after Bourne, but they are not successful.  He gets Marie away.  In the end he get away himself.  Abbott orders an assassin to take out Conklin.  The woman who was Bourne's handler is Nicki Parsons (Julia Stiles).  She does not believe Bourne has gone rogue.

High action and the amnesia angle makes this a more interesting movie.  

Movie Review: ****The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)

 This is a very good retelling of the Loch Ness monster story.  A boy finds an egg, and takes it home.  The boy is introverted and clumsy, and scared of the water even though he lives by the loch.  His father is away to fight in the war.  The egg hatches into a cute little seal looking creature.  He keeps it secret, but it is impossible to keep it secret forever.  The man who has moved into the house to do the upkeep, Lewis Mowbray, finds our, as does his sister Kristie.  But his mom doesn't.  He lets the beast go, as he grows very fast.  He visits the beast and they go on a swim.  However the military is defending theloch under Captain Hamilton, during WWII.  Some practice rounds get too close to the beast and causes him to have som PTSD.  Now the military are looking for him, and others, some for the notoriety and some for possible money.  His mother finally realizes he is not lying about the monster when it visits, and now they are trying to escape past the submarine nets.  

• Alex Etel as Angus MacMorrow
  • Brian Cox as Older Angus MacMorrow
  • Louis Owen Collins as young Angus MacMorrow
• Emily Watson as Anne MacMorrow
• Ben Chaplin as Lewis Mowbray
• David Morrissey as Captain Thomas Hamilton
• Priyanka Xi as Kirstie MacMorrow

Movie Review: X2 X-Men United (2003)

X-Men series

This is a movie with lots of excitement.  The part about Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) looking for his roots, and finding everything abandoned and destroyed at Lake Alkali was sort of not congruent with the action and was a bit lost.  But he comes back just in time to protect the children at the school from a governmental incursion by our evil enemy, William Stryker (Brian Cox) (who wants all mutants dead) and is actually the creator of Wolverine.  This movie makes good use of Magneto (Ian McKellan) and his side kick shape shifter Mystique (Rebecca Romijn).  Mystique helps Magneto escape by giving one of his guards an injection of iron; which Magneto uses to make bullets and a metal platform on which he can float. It also tells us more about the powers of Dr. Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his machine Cerebro.  However, in the wrong hands, and with the wrong manipulation this machine can become one of great power, capable of killing.  The school is attacked by Stryker's government men, and most of the students escape, but six are taken hostage.  Cyclops (James Marsden) is taken captive with Dr. Xavier.  Stryker has a drug with which he uses to manipulate people.  He used it on Magneto to get information about the school and Cerebro.  He also uses this on Cyclops to make him an enemy to the X-men.  This movie is about team work, and some members sacrificing and protecting others. Wolverine ends up leading the escapees with Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean (Famke Janssen).  They not only have to keep the children safe, but also rescue Cyclops and Dr. Xavier.  This takes teaming up with Magneto and Mystique.