On Why the Bourne Series is the Best American Film Trilogy Ever Made at 08/11/2007 09:54am

Umm... who would cast Brian Cox or Chris Cooper as government baddies? Really?

First off, X-Men 2.

Second off, Breach, and almost every other Chris Cooper role involves him being either a government official/worker (Kingdom, Syriana, Jarhead) or a "bad" guy (American Beauty, October Sky)

I suppose that's my first problem with this article. You started off with asking who would cast people we already know well to have played govn't baddie roles as govn't baddies.

My second and largest problem is the fact that you ignore Jason Bourne becoming less of a person throughout the series. He is a real character with a real problem in the first film, but in the following films he is just a machine on the warpath with the occasional moral dilemma just to show that he's still trying to become somebody new. Less time is spent creating the character than is spent creating the net of government operations revolving around Bourne. And in each movie, they give us the "No, that wasn't the big operation, THIS is the big operation" crap that hardly counts as a legitimate reason to continue the story. They could use the same formula for eighty more movies. "No Jason, operation Black Tar was just a cover for operation Armored Scorpion" and then he proceeds to take out that mission leader.

I'm really sorry that you had to write this fanboy piece after getting hyped up on the new film just to get shot down, but you really should have thought out your "best trilogy ever" claim before posting it. Maybe you wouldn't have gotten so much flack if you had just said "Why the Bourne movies are quality pieces of film."

But who could honestly say even that when Paul Greengrass got his jittery little mitts all over the cameras for the second two films?