This doesn't exactly speak to me, but then again I am rather tired of the "leading man as soft loser / everybody is in pain and life is hard" motif.

The trailer screams one week in the art houses, straight-to-video then straight to IFC where no one will ever see it again.

Who knows, Philip Seymour Hoffman could be a brilliant director who is being undermined by a weak ad campaign.







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Labels: Amy Ryan, film, movie review, Philip Seymour Hoffman

It must be something to spend a portion of your young life fighting in Iraq, seeing people die, see the horrible things that go down in that part of the world and then come back to America to find Comrade Damon peddling Jason Bourne Goes to Baghdad.

I could be missing the whole point here, I have read the book. But, from what I'm seeing here looks like we have a Hollywood production where the hero goes after OUR SIDE in the middle of the war zone - a war zone we are currently involved in.

Am I wrong? If so, let me know where I messed up.







Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland (Robin Hood)
Director: Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Actors: Matt Damon (The Bourne Supremacy), Jason Issacs (Soldier), Greg Kinnear (We Were Soldiers), Brendan Gleeson (28 Days Later), Amy Ryan (Changling) and Said Faraj

Labels: Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, film, Greg Kinnear, Jason Issacs, Matt Damon, movie trailer, Paul Greengrass