The Bourne Legacy (2012) or, Bourne 4: Hokum

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A dynamically designed poster for Tony Gilroy's The Bourne Legacy

A governmentally employed assassin, who had previously been much used by a cynical retired Air Force colonel, now gets hunted by him, as he gets in connection with a skilled chemical engineer.

Edward Norton (The Invention of Lying (2009)) is a dreary heavy as the commanding, tight-assed colonel, but also the more sympathetic parts played by Jeremy Renner (Ingenious (2009)), - who at one point in the film is battered something awful, - and Rachel Weisz (Death Machine (1994)) can't alter the fact that this the 4th film in the Bourne franchise, - for the first time without Matt Damon as the now absent Jason Bourne, - is cryptic bordering on incomprehensible.
Without any introduction to the film's new elements, such as color-coded 'chems', parts of its dialog come across as advanced theatrical exercises. This is fatal, and it makes The Bourne Legacy seem incredibly long. The impressive cast here are gathered for what is essentially an audience-hostile fart in a can. 
The Bourne Legacy is written by twins Dan Gilroy (The Fall (2006)) and co-writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton (2007)), based loosely on the Bourne book series by Robert Ludlum (The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)). It has two successful suspense scenes in it: One is a shooting scene that takes place in a laboratory with a mad Zeljko Ivanek (The West Wing (2003), TV-series), and the other is a high-speed car-motorcycle chase in Manila.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 125 mil. $
Box office: 276.1 mil. $
= Flop
[The Bourne Legacy premiered 30 July (New York) and runs 135 minutes. Matt Damon would not do a Bourne film without Paul Greengrass, who directed the 2nd and 3rd film and decided against doing the 4th. Tony Gilroy had written scripts for the first 3 films and was promoted to also direct the film, which takes place partially during the events of the preceding The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Shooting took place in the Philippines, including in Manila, in Seoul, South Korea, Alberta, Canada, New York and Chicago, Illinois from September 2011 - ?. The film opened #1 to a 38.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed in the top 5 for another 3 weeks (#2-#2-#4) and grossed 113.2 mil. $ (41 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 17.4 mil. $ (6.3 %) and China with 16 mil. $ (5.8 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 2.5/4 star review, equal to two notches better than this review. Greengrass and Damon were lured back for a 5th Bourne movie, Jason Bourne (2016), which did not feature Renner and was a box office success. Tony Gilroy has stayed away from directing since the film; instead he has returned as producer of the great Nightcrawler (2014), consulting producer on House of Cards (2015-16) and co-writer of The Great Wall (2016) and Rogue One (2016). The Bourne Legacy is rotten at 56 % with a 5.9/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Bourne Legacy?

Knight and Day (2010) - Diaz and Cruise invigorate Mangold's action romance

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Stars Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise in what looks like a very uncomfortable shooting position on a poster for James Mangold's Knight and Day

A sexy mechanic babe falls for a resourceful charmer on board an airplane, but he turns out to be a rogue CIA agent, who wants to protect a newly created super battery, - and its inventor, - from some shady villains!

Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher (2012)) plays a classic Cruise hero here, who can simply do just about anything, and Cameron Diaz (The Invisible Circus (2001)) is charming and sympathetic in the other lead. Knight and Day lives on their charisma and good chemistry, coupled here for their second time, (the first one being in Vanilla Sky (2001)). Great New Yorker director James Mangold (Cop Land (1997)) creates a slick and neatly photographed (by Phedon Papamichael (The Descendants (2011))) film that holds no surprises and doesn't transcend being a pretty pedestrian time-passer. It feels like a vanity project and it is truly a trifle, looked at from any angle, but it is still a well-driving vehicle with two lovely stars. - And one spectacular car and motorbike chase through the bull run in Sevilla, Spain!
Knight and Day jumps from country to country seemingly only motivated by the fact that it adds spice to the production. The much better version of the film it tries to be would be something like True Lies (1994). The script reportedly went through a staggering 12 writers' machines, but it is Patrick O'Neill (Sun Gods (2002), TV movie) who is credited for it.

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Watch an official trailer for the film here

Cost: 125 mil. $
Box office: 261.9 mil. $
= Flop
[Knight and Day premiered June 16 (Sevilla) and runs 110 minutes. Many stars were in talks to star in the film before Cruise and Diaz were cast. Cruise took a pay cut, only receiving 11 mil. $ for his performance and no "first dollar gross", meaning he might not have made more on it than the 11 mil. Diaz's paycheck is undisclosed. Filming took place in Massachusetts, Jamaica, Illinois, New York, California, Spain (Sevilla and Cadiz) and Austria (Salzburg) from September - December 2009. The release attracted little interest: It opened #3 to a 20.1 mil. $, behind hold-over hit Toy Story 3 and the new comedy release Grown Ups, in North America, where it grossed 76.4 mil. $ (29.2 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 28.2 mil. $ (10.8 %) and France with 14.3 mil. $ (5.5 %). The film is said to be Cruise's lowest attended action movie opening since Legend (1986). It received many bad reviews, but Roger Ebert gave it 3/4 stars, a notch better than the review here. Knight and Day is rotten at 52 % with a 5.6 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Knight and Day?

Spectre (2015) - Mendes' 2nd Bond is mostly good

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Daniel Craig looks snug and ready for action on the poster for Sam Mendes' Spectre

Spectre is the 24th Bond film. It is the second by British master filmmaker Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road (2008)), his 7th film overall. It is written by Neal Purvis (Johnny English (2003)), John Logan (Skyfall (2012)), Jez Butterworth (Black Mass (2015)) and Robert Wade (Die Another Day (2002)), based on Ian Fleming's (Diamonds Are Forever (1956)) characters.

While M and his spy service is under pressure in London from a new hotshot, who thinks traditional intelligence is antiquated, Bond chases leads to find and apprehend the leader of the evil SPECTRE organization.

Spectre opens with a high-octane chase that ends in a spectacular helicopter finale at the Day of the Dead in Mexico City, one of the film's highlights.
Besides the exciting action scenes that are a key part of the films, and which don't disappoint here, Spectre is a rich serving of lots of elements of story, characters and style. Thomas Newman's (Bridge of Spies (2015)) immersive score also works its charms professionally. Spectre is a highly entertaining cocktail, which brings the new Bond back to some of the roots of the story universe, links the former three films, and throws out some of the solemnity and grey seriousness of the same three previous films. It slices the Bond babe ingredient from the 007 recipe in favor of connecting Daniel Craig's (Munich (2005)) Bond with Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Color/La Vie D'Adèle (2013)).

Craig has grown on me, and I think he has grown into a good Bond for me by now, although I still don't appreciate his diva-ish snide comments about his character and the Bond universe (which, besides being nearly universally beloved, is also making Craig a very wealthy man.) But boy can Craig wear the hell out of a tailored suit and some awesome shades!
Magnificent Monica Bellucci (Malèna (2000)) is in the film for precious few moments, regrettably. Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)) is another newcomer that seems an obvious fit as a brutish henchman. He is great here and very exciting against Craig, who also has a fine fight scene with him on a train through North Africa, besides a fun car chase in Rome. Irish Andrew Scott (Pride (2014)) is an appropriately disgusting fellow as the surveillance-obsessed new London power-person; part of this side of the plot seems to have been directly inspired by the News of the World scandal and Britain's general surveillance obsession.
Naomie Harris (Ninja Assassin (2009)) is delightful as Miss Moneypenny; Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)) is good if barely noticeable as M; Jesper Christensen (The Bench/Bænken (2000)) returns for a frightening, strong scene as Mr. White; and Ben Whishaw (The Danish Girl (2015)) still brings personality and life to the character of Q. - Although I am disappointed that the Bond writers, who seem to here have created the first major character who is both gay and a good guy, (I can count at least 3 gay villains from past Bond movies in my memory right now), but who they don't allow a normal home life with a boyfriend or husband. Instead Whishaw's Q lives with his cats ... which sucks!
SPOILER Christoph Waltz (Carnage (2011)) brings the old heavy of Blofeld to life here again, and we are given new details about Bond and Blofeld's intricate backstory, which I had never heard before. Waltz makes sure not to overplay, but perhaps should have gone more for the jugular after all. Still it is exciting to have Blofeld back.
Spectre runs long, at 148 minutes, - a Bond movie shouldn't ever be longer than 130 minutes is my best calibration, and the pomposity of the length hurts the film.
SPOILER Waltz' Blofeld seems destined to be the cornerstone of the next Bond as well, as he probably breaks out of jail, which I am already looking forward to.

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Most of the cast with director Sam Mendes at the London premiere for Spectre

Watch the exciting trailer for the film here

Cost: 245-300 mil. $
Box office: 108.4 mil. $ and counting
= Too early to say
[Spectre is one spectacularly expensive film, ranking among the priciest of all to date: It will have to become a major, global hit to make back its budget and possibly emerge with profits. It was filmed in England, Rome, Austria, Mexico City and in Morocco. Spectre broke UK's opening day and opening week records, and it looks like it will get a warm reception in North America as well. Spectre is fresh at 62 % with a 6.4 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Spectre?

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation/Hamilton: I Nationens Intresse (2012) - Flawed spy hogwash

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Mikael Persbrandt looks intensely at us in a stately suit on the poster for Katrine Windfeld's Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

Hamilton, a deadly spy-weapon of the Swedish state, survives a major arm's deal gone haywire in Uzbekistan and must soon thereafter rescue a Swedish weapon's technician in Africa.

Hamilton is a technically well-oiled adaptation of Swede Jan Guillou's (Coq Rouge - The Story of a Swedish Spy/Coq Rouge (1986)) same-titled 1988 novel, the third of his 13 novels of spy Hamilton. Stefan Thunberg (False Trail/Jägerne 2 (2011)) adapted the novel and Dane Kathrine Windfeld (The Escape/Flugten (2009)), who passed away tragically young earlier this year, directed the film.
The visuals and especially the fight scenes are molded after the Bourne movies (2002; '04; '07; '12), and Hamilton's stunt coordinator Cedric Proust (In the Valley of Elah (2007)) actually worked on the stunts of The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
But the angle taken on the novel is fundamentally flawed here: Hamilton should have been revived ('he' has been adapted before as Harold Zwart's Commander Hamilton (1998) and the TV-miniseries Hamilton (2001)) as a period film, set in the time it was written for, or left alone. - The world has changed a lot since the books.
The fact SPOILER that Hamilton to a large degree takes place in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan and so on, but that the villains are all sinister, cynical Americans are the typically Swedish, politically correct choice. Hamilton is a film that steals American formalism and style in order to make an anti-American, nationalistically Swedish serving of genderless nonsense. A disappointing film.

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2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]

Watch the trailer with English subtitles here

Cost: Estimated 45 mil. SEK. ~ 5.5 mil. $
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertainty
[A lot of the film was shot in Jordan, where it was also screened at the Swedish diplomatic mission. Hamilton became the #1 Swedish movie in Sweden of the year with 512k admissions. - Good but not spectacular: This would only generate around 8 mil. SEK, and so the film can surely be counted as a flop of some kind. 2012 was the biggest cinema-year in Sweden in 25 years in terms of admissions, (18.4 mil. ~ 281 mil. $), but the support for Swedish films shown by the audiences are still way under for instance the neighboring Danish audiences' enthusiasm for Danish films. Hamilton was the only Swedish movie in the top 10, at #6. It was sold to "more than ten foreign markets." The film is the first of a proposed trilogy with Agent Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter/Hamilton: Men Inte Om Det Gäller Din Dotter (2012) being the second film. The third is still not announced and may well never happen. Hamilton doesn't have a Rotten Tomatoes score, but it does have a 6.3 user's average, based on 6.201 clicks on IMDb.]

What do you think of Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation?
If you've seen the sequel, how does it rate in comparison?

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - Cruise and Bird's phenomenal action spectacle

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1 Time Film Excess Award Winner:

Best Digital Effects

3 Time Film Excess Nominee:

Best Sound (lost to Drive)
Best Practical Effects (lost to Haywire) 
Best Digital Effects (won)

+ Best Action Movie of the Year
+ Best Blockbuster of the Year

Tom Cruise on the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, for Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Ethan Hunt gets helped out of a Russian prison to infiltrate the Kremlin, which, nevertheless, gets blown up and robbed of its nuclear weapons' codes. Fired by the US government, Hunt and three colleagues will now have to save world peace!

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is the 4th entry in the Tom Cruise-starring (War of the Worlds (2005)) franchise that is based on the Mission: Impossible (1966-73) TV-series, created by Bruce Geller (Have Gun - Will Travel (1958-63)).
The action sequences, in Dubai and in India in particular, are spectacular: Cruise, as usual, actually did most of his own stunts, including crawling on the Burj Khalifa (with safety wires that were erased digitally.) Fellow ass-kicker Paula Patton (Deja Vu (2006)) and Léa Seydoux (The Lobster (2015)) also did their own stunts in their intense fight scene. 
The new gadgets introduced are fresh and fun, and Cruise, who is in absolute top shape, and the rest of the cast are outstanding: Simon Pegg (Absolutely Anything (2015)) is funny; Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker (2008)) acts well, and Michael Nyqvist (John Wick (2014)) is frightening as a Breivik-reminiscent lunatic villain.
Brad Bird (Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (2015)) has directed M:I 4 as his first live-action movie after heading The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004)) and Ratatouille (2007), and it is undeniably an impressive debut for him.
Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), both) have co-written the script, and the plot simply sticks.
M:I 4 is a brilliant spy action movie, and perhaps the franchise's best, (a position that is only challenged by John Woo's great Mission: Impossible II (2000)).

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Watch the awesome trailer for the movie here

Cost: 145 mil. $
Box office: 694.7 mil. $
= Big hit
[M:I 4 was a phenomenal success, the highest-grossing film of the franchise and of all Cruise's starring vehicles. It made 209.3 mil. $ (30 % of the total gross) in the US with its most important markets after that being China with a gross of 102.5 mil. $ (15 %) and Japan with a gross of 69.7 mil. $ (10 %). Cruise has thrown himself into new, hair-raising stunts for the inevitable M:I 5, including hanging onto an airplane taking off and staying underwater without oxygen for a reported 6 minutes (!) for an elaborate underwater action scene. It comes out in July/August and is called Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015).]

What do you think of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol?
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Spy (2015) - Feig and McCarthy score spy spoof gold!

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+ Best Action-Comedy of the Year + Best Fight Scene of the Year: McCarthy's kitchen fight scene

The stars of Paul Feig's Spy sell the film well on this funny poster

Spy is the fresh spy parody from great writer-director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids (2011)), the #1 movie in the US right now and a movie that is spreading its action-packed fun worldwide as this is being written.

Susan Cooper has been an analyst at the CIA for years, when sudden changes send her to the front as an agent in Europe, where some rich, shady characters are readying the sale of a nuke in a suitcase!

Feig may have learned from his huge 2013 hit comedy (also starring Melissa McCarthy (St. Vincent (2014))), - which was also an action comedy, - that a real action-type plot helps for such a film: Heat wasn't really going anywhere exciting plot-wise. - Spy, on the other hand, stomps around internationally with a well-defined, clear plot objective.
Spy's plot isn't very far from the plots of 'real' action spy movies. For a spy spoof, it has just the right amount of characters, comedy interplay and action. Furthermore the action of Spy is very well-staged and exciting, and the fights, - oh yes, there are fights! - are great. - Seeing McCarthy kick ass in completely unbelievable ways is pretty f-ing cool. Especially her kitchen fight in Spy is hilarious. The film has neat cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)).
The comedy is a mix of wit, physical, gross-out, crude comedy - mostly insult comedy, - implicitly playing on McCarthy's character's coming into her own at work, as a person, and as a woman. There were a bunch of kids in the cinema I saw it in, and they had a blast, (although it is decidedly not a kids movie), as did the adults. Often in Spy, one gag or zinger's resulting laughs weren't over before the next made me laugh again. I really love the spy parody sub-genre, so it was a real joy for me to see such a resourceful cast play one out in a well-written script and clear direction, loaded with an abundance of inventive, fast-paced fun.

McCarthy is an energetic powerhouse in Spy, and I was glad to see that, perhaps due to her clout with director-friend Feig, she was not only confined to God-awful outfits. She gets to dress up here and look really good, (even if Rose Byrne's (Insidious (2010)) delightfully bitchy character tries to tear it apart for her.)
Jason Statham (Crank (2006)) is very funny in a ridiculously intense braggadocio part; Jude Law (A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)) works as Cooper's handsome idol; Brit Miranda Hart (Miranda (2009-15)) was a new face for me, but she was awkwardly funny as McCarthy's sidekick. Bobby Cannavale (Annie (2014)) makes a fun second villain; Allison Janney (The DUFF (2015)) is solid as a tough boss, and Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)) also took several laughs as a foreign, helpful (but awfully handsy) spy.
There are a ton of favorite moments to take away from Spy, the best light-hearted fun you'll have with a movie, perhaps for all of 2015. - So don't miss it!
Feig is a very busy man these days: He's creating a new sci-fi/comedy TV series titled Other Space (2015), directing a Reese Witherspoon comedy titled Wish List and heading the new, hugely anticipated Ghostbusters reboot, with McCarthy. - Film Excess can't wait.

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The Heat (2013) or, Prissy and Offensive in Boston  
Bridesmaids (2011) - Subversive comedy with laughs a-plenty

Here's the red band trailer for the movie - enjoy!

Cost: 65 mil. $
Box office: 86.5 mil. $ and counting
= Too early to say
[There's no doubt in my mind that Spy will become a financial hit, as well as a critical, - it might be Feig and McCarthy's best reviewed title to date. It is blazing through cinemas globally right now.]

What do you think of Spy?

Haywire (2011) - Soderbergh's taut, stylish ensemble actioner is a masterpiece

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1 Time Film Excess Award Winner:

Best Practical Effects

4 Time Film Excess Nominee:


Best Film (lost to The Descendants)
Best Director: Steven Soderbergh (lost to Agnieszka Holland for In Darkness)
Best Cinematography: Steven Soderbergh (lost to Phedon Papamichael for The Descendants)
Best Practical Effects (won)

+ Best Breakthrough of the Year (Gina Carano)
+ Sexiest Movie of the Year
+ Most Undeserved Flop of the Year

The appropriately stylish, cool poster for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

Mallory is an American assassin and a damned skilled one at that. On a job in Barcelona, she gets set up. - And when she kills the British agent, whose mission it was to kill her, things have really gone haywire!

Real-life MMA-fighter Gina Carano (Blood and Bone (2009)) is deeply impressive and a wagonload of cool in her starring debut as an actress, and not just in the fight scenes, which are masterly choreographed. Master director and cinematographer Steven Soderbergh (The Informant! (2009)) creates striking images with minimal use of lighting, which plays neatly with David Holmes' (Ocean's Thirteen (2007)) score that seduces with bulging, cool 70s-like percussion. The sound side features lots of periods of bold uses of silence, and the noiseless aspect of Haywire is liberating, since modern action movies in general seem to have cultivated a bad habit of reveling in being as infernally noisy as possible.
Haywire is consistently stylish, self-conscious in its teasing us cinephiles playfully. It is a huge pleasure to watch it, and its ending is the coolest that has come around in any film in a long while.
Haywire is written by Lem Dobbs (The Score (2001)). Although Soderbergh has made many great films in recent years, this is his best in a long while. It is a raw, girl-power-infused martial arts action gift. - Yeah!

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Gina Carano in camouflage in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

Cost: 23 mil. $
Box office: 33.3 mil. $
= Huge flop
[The public didn't respond warmly to Haywire, and many have even ridiculed Carano's great performance in it. A sophisticated, highly intelligent, polished piece of super-entertainment with a female hero for the decade of course is quite an unpleasant shock... After an opening weekend of 8.4 mil. $, it ended up grossing 18.9 mil. $ in the US (57 % of its total gross).]

What do you think of Haywire?

The Core (2003) - Jon Amiel serves the world an overload of stupidities in barely watchable catastrophe sci-fi turkey

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+ Most Ridiculous Movie of the Year

The sensationalist poster for Jon Amiel's The Core

QUICK REVIEW:

The Core is a catastrophically bad catastrophe movie:
The rotating part of the Earth's inner core stops rotating and then has to, as tradition states, be rebooted with a giant nuclear bomb.
There is a row of good forces involved here: Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under (2001-05)), Bruce Greenwood (Flight (2012)) and Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight (2008)) namely, but, boy, have they taken a wrong turn in signing up for The Core.
This film is so foolish that it's half-way funny, as when SPOILER the singing whales save the romantic couple at the end. - GASP! But most of the time, it's just unamusingly stupid.
The science in The Core is so unreal that it has even won a poll, where hundreds of scientists voted about what was the worst science fiction movie.
It is directed by Londoner English literature student, now filmmaker Jon Amiel (Copycat (1995)).

 

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Watch the trailer for one of the most ridiculous movies of this millennium, The Core, right here

Cost: 60 mil. $
Box office: 73.4 mil. $
= Flop

What do you think of The Core?
In what science fiction movie have you experienced the worst 'science'?