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Hanna Review – Saoirse ‘Bourne’ Ronan Impresses

 Hollywood  3 Responses »
Apr 102011
 
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Friend’s Father – Hanna, what did your mother die of?
Hanna – Three bullets.

Who needs Bourne when you got Hanna?

Yeah, who needs Jason Bourne when you have a pretty young gal with a doctorate in Bournology.

New Kick-Ass
It’s been some time since we watched a nice action film starring a young girl.

Man, Kick-Ass seems like a million years back.

So we were more than thrilled to hear about the new action film Hanna featuring the young Irish actress Saoirse Ronan.

In the style of Bourne or Bond movies, Hanna is an action film that moves at a blistering pace, leaving little time for you to exercise your brain cells.

Chases, fights, gun-shots and bodies dropping to the floor at frequent intervals are de rigueur for this genre of films and Hanna doesn’t disappoint on this score.

The movie opens in the Arctic landscape where Hanna and her father Eric Heller, a former CIA operative live in the woods, far away from civilization. Continue reading »

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The Bourne Legacy Review – Mediocre Shit

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Sep 062010
 
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Back in the old days, when we were in the spring of our lives we greatly enjoyed Robert Ludlum’s books.

We read most if not all his spy thrillers.

If memory serves us right, the Chancellor Manuscript was our first Ludlum thriller, a novel we picked up sometime in the 1970s from a neighborhood circulating library when we still lived in India.

Over the years, as we grew older the interest in Ludlum waned a bit although we still dutifully read the books.

Lately, we watched the Bourne movies too where we saw Matt Damon performing all those wild stunts.

As the Ludlum fans know, Jason Bourne is perhaps the author’s best known character.

So, the other day when we espied The Bourne Legacy (2004) by Erich Van Lustbader in the New Arrivals section of our local library we greedily picked it up. Why the 2004 book was kept in the New Arrivals section of our library, we have no idea.

A writer of crime fiction/spy thrillers, Erich Van Lustbader is not an unknown name to us. In the early or mid 1980s, we read a few of his books including Ninja. They were not bad books but nothing to get terribly excited about either.

Erich Van Lustbader takes charge of the Jason Bourne character in the novel The Bourne Legacy under a contract with the late Robert Ludlum’s estate.

Like most books of this genre, the the 453-page novel is an easy read and we finished it earlier today.

Our Verdict
Bourne Legacy is a mediocre piece of shit. Continue reading »

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