Action — Directed by Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine

Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agency tries to track him down.

Matt Damon is back as Bourne in his third installation, and as expected, it is the weakest of the three. The script for this one is real real bad, and the action feels forced. You never get to connect with Jason like you did in the prequels and it really destroys the movie. There’s no urgency to his search for the clues and the assassin(s) just falls flat and feels as a whole the whole thing feels tepid , underdeveloped and, yes, old. Nothing new in this movie you haven’t seen a million times before.

Action is done with lots of camera cuts, angles and makes a mess of things. You never feel like you’re in the combat like in the first two movies. The whole root-top action is a total mess and totally unbelievable. There are a few highlights though that make it bearable. Jason jumping into buildings through the window only to leave the same through another. Now that’s cool.

The female lead is, well, how shall I put it, totally meaningless. She essentially gives up her career just to follow Bourne. What’s her motivation? We never get one, she just tags along for some inexplicable reason. Bad script. Bad script!

My rating: 5/10

High-school student Sam Witwicky buys his first car, who is actually the Autobot “Bumblebee.” Other Autobots arrive on Earth, searching for the Allspark, and the war on Earth heats up as the Decepticons attack a United States military. Sam and Mikaela are taken by the top-secret agency Sector 7 to help stop the Decepticons, but when they learn the agency also intends to destroy the Autobots, they formulate their own plan to save the world

This is a movie for kids and former kids who watched the cartoon version as they grew up. I caught myself groaning several times during the ordeal I suffered trying to watch this. It’s not that it’s a real bad movie, it’s just that I’m probably not the target audience. It’s a fact I will have to live with. I am getting old… Sigh!
It is entertainment and nothing else. Note that I didn’t say good entertainment. Atleast ’some’ semblance of reality would be nice. There’s just no way these robots could be defeated had the movie tried to seem believable. In under a second those fighting it would have been wiped out. Thankful enough for the actors, the robots go into some kind of lets-do-nothing mode during the fights. Otherwise the fight scenes would have lasted about 5 seconds. That’s how powerful the robots feel. And moving 10 feet sometime takes them 5 seconds or more, while it at times takes under a second. Go figure. Guess they can’t make a movie where the robots slaughter everything in sight. No place for humans then I guess…

My rating: 5/10