When you watch the Bourne Legacy it quickly becomes apparent that this was not a film that needed to be made. The original films with Matt Damon were adapted from Robert Ludlum novels. This film was sort of just tacked on to the end and was "inspired" by Ludlum's work. On one hand that means that this is a mostly original story which is something that is lacking in Hollywood at the moment but on the other hand that means…

By now I think you know what I'm going to be saying here. You've probably guessed that I'm a bit of a Harry Potter fan and you'd be more or less right. I have all the books, I have the films on DVD and I have the audio books as well (the Stephen Fry ones though admittedly I got them more for him than for the story itself).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (HP&DH:P1), is one of…

Just to start off, I like action films. I don't mean to say that they are serious business and that you need to completely suspend your disbelief to appreciate then and that "come on, it's just a movie! Stop thinking about it and just enjoy it!" But I do like them. That said, I'm not sure that you can watch action films and take them seriously. I mean I suppose back in the days of Terminator (I & II only) you…

I have an odd relationship with this film. One the one hand I feel like most of the characters are better developed than in the first film, the art direction and action scenes are truly stunning and Luke Goss is, as always, a mesmerising presence on the screen. On the other hand the story is weak, a good portion of the acting is substandard at best and the script is, in parts very good, but for the most part trite…