Arterial Spray

According to impressions read online, I thought this was supposed to be better than Casino Royale? It’s not. This isn’t even the best Bourne film, the first two are much better as “film”. This serves as acceptable fan service, giving us some more insight into Bourne’s past, however this comes at the end of the movie and it’s filled with too much of things we’ve already seen from the previous films. I liked it, but overall The Bourne Ultimatum is “meh”.

Being on Blu-ray it looked pretty good in HD and sounded excellent, though it’s not as high quality as other HD transfers I have seen. I imagine it being filmed in the 80’s and not much care taken with the source material over the years and probably not much money put into doing a really high quality transfer.

The good thing is that the film is still great to me, a lot of action and pretty funny. It’s hard not to imagine a bearded Snape when watching Hans Gruber though. :p

Here’s another that looks and sounds good being on Blu-ray, but the image quality is really hit and miss. Some scenes look good while others show a lot of “noise” and don’t look very good. One positive however, is that this is the uncut version of the film, basically what is on the Criterion cut of it.

Robocop is another favorite of mine, and the themes used have held up over the years with privatezed services and over commercialization. Also, seeing “Red” from That 70’s Show play the bad guy is a treat.