The Viewing Files: Bourne and Indy Doing It Right

And I'm back to catching up with my Letterboxd movie reviews and hopefully not going nuts in the process.

This time round it's action all the way with Bourne and Indy fighting off the bad guys.  Just the thing you need to unwind when everything around you seems kind of crazy.

The Bourne Identity

Starring: Matt Damon

Original release: 2002

Synopsis: Amnesia sucks.  Especially when there are people trying to kill you.

 

Spies chasing spies and I am so there.  The fight scenes are pretty awesome too. 

The Bourne Supremacy

Starring: Matt Damon

Original release: 2004

Synopsis:  You think they would've have learnt the 1st time round.

 

Any movie that has 2 kiwi's in it as badass assassins spies has got my vote.

The Bourne Ultimatum 

Starring: Matt Damon

Original release: 2007

Synopsis:  Workplace blues really are the worst. 

 

Watching this trilogy makes you realise that working for the CIA is not the career path you ever want to try and that your work colleagues are really not so bad after all.

The Bourne Legacy

Starring: Hawkeye before he was Hawkeye

Original release: 2012

Synopsis:  Same story, new assassin trying to get away from it all.

 

An assassin/spy and his doctor fall in love and run away together and not necessarily in the order.

 

Personally I felt sorry for the wolf.

Jason Bourne

Starring: Matt Damon

Original release: 2016

Synopsis:  And you thought your work place was bad.

 

Those pesky ex-work colleagues just don't know when to leave you alone.  It's even worse when they keep on trying to kill you.  Bourne should seriously know better by now.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Starring: Harrison Ford

Original release: 1981

Synopsis:  Archaelogist 1, Nazi's 0

 

There's snakes and treasure and an adventurous quest and bad boys up to bad things and it's all just a fun homage to those 1930s and 40s film serials.

 

The fact that I'm an archaeology buff also helps.

 

Don't think.  Just enjoy

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Starring: Harry... again

Original release: 1984

Synopsis:  Creepy cults never end well.

 

I'm pretty sure Mr Spielberg went to the studio and said "I wanna do a sequel, only this time I want to throw in a musical number, a human sacrifice cult, elephants, crocodiles..."

 

And he did.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Starring: Harry and Sean

Original release: 1989

Synopsis:  The Holy Grail and no it's not Monty Python

 

Basically father and son bickering throughout the movie and it's as entertaining as hell.  Throw in some archaeology and another adventurous quest and I'm a happy camper.  Harrison Ford and Sean Connery totally own this movie.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Starring: Harry... the senior citizen

Original release: 2008

Synopsis:  No Nazi's but Russian's instead

 

Indy is still Indy and yet somehow this film just didn't work for me on any level.  By the time the reveal near the end happened I just wanted to throw the whole thing away as a bad idea.