6 Movies in One Week! (Part One)

Singapore Airlines is always a good way to fly. I agree with my colleagues that the stewardesses are a sight for sore eyes, but most of the time my eyes are fixed on the monitor in front of me. Even in economy class, everyone gets a personal monitor with access to dozens and dozens of movies and TV shows, hundreds of audio CDs, and scores of games. The movies and CDs are all on-demand. You can make a selection any time you want, with options to start, stop, pause, fast-forward, and rewind. And that's how I ended up watching 6 movies in a week.

Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy. Definitely two of the better spy movies I've watched. They're smart, they're slick, they're intelligent. If you're looking for James Bond. Go somewhere else. Story of a black ops agent who loses his memory in a mission gone wrong. With the help of an unwilling stranger, he tries to piece back his life, and later decides he wants out. His handler thinks he has gone rouge, and so orders his operatives in the field to take him out. There's not much plot twists, but it's how the story is played out which makes the movie good. Particularly liked the escape from the US Embassy, the Mini Cooper car chase, and the hand-to-hand combat in the French apartment.

Bourne Supremacy is more of the same, but with a new plot. We find Bourne and his wife Marie living happily and anonymously on the beach in Goa in southern India. A Russian assassin comes to town and before the couple can escape, kills off Marie. As the movie tagline said, "They should've left him alone." Apparently, Bourne knows something from his Treadstone days that someone would prefer he forget permanently. Some agents under CIA surveillance in Berlin were killed during an operation, and the scene was set up so Bourne would take the blame. So Bourne comes out of retirement to face his tormentors head on, and make them leave him alone. More car chases (taxi vs. SUV), more stalkings, more gunfights. I've got a stack of Robert Ludlum books at home, but never read any of them. These movies are interesting enough that I might start reading them.