I don't really need to review this movie, because I've reviewed the previous ones, and the same thing goes. It's a fun movie, it's got cool spy drama and action, the camera shakes too much, I give it an 8.
What I want to talk about is how annoying it is to be me.
There is a scene in this film in which the pragmatic but compassionate CIA agent, we'll call her “Hillary C” is challenging the reckless, triggerhappy CIA agent. He tells her how dangerous things are these days, how there's threats out there, and how his program is good because it “cuts through all the red tape.” She can't believe his audacity, and wonders how long this can go on for, how long before it's used against the good guys, against Americans. He tells her it will go on “until we win the war.”
This quote makes no real sense in the context of the scene, or the film. There's no war going on in the film. There's really no direct mention of terrorism or the “war on terror.“ It's just CIA dudes trying to catch Bourne. The only reason to write the line that way is to reference the Bush administration.
So, to me parallels to the liberal whining about Bush's wiretapping programs is obvious. To me, at least. Which is why it sucks to be me, as I mentioned earlier.
See, the average American sees that and they might miss it entirely. They might just associate it with some generalized criticism of government in general. I can't do that. I know the people who wrote the screenplay are liberals. I'm not even going to bother googling it to see if I can prove it, because I know they are.
Actually, strike that, I think I will.
Which will lead me to note that Tony Gilroy just directed Michael Clayton, a movie starring noted liberal George Clooney, and which is about a heroic lawyer who is fed up with corporate greed and malfeasance, and must take a stand.
And I'll find this, which is hilarious. That's right. One of the writers, Scott Z Burns, is the producer of An Inconvenient Truth.
And then I'll find this, in which the director of The Sentinel, Clark Johnson, talks about how he dislikes George W Bush (apparently even more than David Duke), how we're all being watched since the Bush administration came into power. The writer on this film is George Nolfi, who also has writing credits on The Bourne Ultimatum. Maybe that's not proof of anything, but I doubt a guy like that will work with somebody who's not similarly left-leaning.
Unreal.
I wish that for just one day America could see the extent to which everything they see, everything they hear, everything they read, is controlled by liberals. I can't go to watch an action movie and not be surreptitiously fed spoonfuls of anti-Bush propaganda.
I can't even imagine what would befall the Democrats if they lost their near total control the media. Of print, of television, of film... They can barely win elections when they tell everyone what to think. Take their brainwashing away, and they wouldn't just lose elections, they'd cease to exist as a political party.