The Bourne Trilogy
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Vosen, the agent trying to just kill Bourne to cover up the Blackbriar assassin project is talking to Bourne on the phone when Bourne asks him where he’s at. Vosen replies to Bourne that he is in his office and Bourne tells him he is not, otherwise he would be talking to him face to face. Bourne clears out his safe using agent Vosen’s voice he recorded to open the voice locked safe to get information about Blackbriar.
Jason and Agent Landy figure everything out and Jason goes to the place where they trained him to confront the one person responsible for the training and mind games used on the agents. Agent Landy receives the files Jason stole from Vosen’s office and faxes them somewhere before Vosen can confront him and she tells him that it is all over.
Landy walks away and Jason meets Dr. Albert Hirsch who was in charge of the psychological conditioning for Treadstone and with Hirsch’s help remembers who he really was. When agents barge into the room where Hirsch and Bourne are Bourne jumps out the window and confronts the last assassin of the Treadstone project on the roof.
The assassin lets Bourne go because Bourne earlier could have killed the agent after Bourne crashed him into a barricade and left him instead of killing the fellow assassin. Bourne is last seen jumping into the river and swimming away secure in the knowledge that everyone connected with Blackbriar and Treadstone are either dead or going to answer for their involvement.
The Bourne Identity has the usual audio commentary and picture in picture bonuses of the Blu-ray movies as well as three features about the author Robert Ludlum and several others. The three features tell how Robert Ludlum came up with the ideas behind Jason Bourne and the three books for the movies.
The other features are alternate opening and ending, deleted and extended scenes some making of features called the Birth of the Bourne Identity and From Identity to Supremacy. Much of the first discs bonus features split between the author and several making of features that are quite interesting.
There are also other features including a making of a fight sequence and an insight piece from a UCLA psychologist and a feature from a CIA liaison officer analyzing the cloak and dagger aspects of the film. Probably the best additional feature and the most accurate in the entire film as well as describing the film is from CIA liaison officer Chase Brandon.
He describes the film, the car chase and the fight scenes very well and pretty much summarizes the film and I think why it was so good. Mr. Brandon says the fight scenes, the car chase and pretty much everything else about the film was not only realistic from the standpoint of low tech but the film was quite realistic in how they portrayed the covert ops of the intelligence world.
There are plenty of additional bonus features and well varied topic content that it does not get boring or uninteresting. The bonus content for the Bourne Identity is probably the most full featured and interesting I have seen on a Blu-ray movie yet, until I got to the second film.
The second film has the usual bonus content and a casting feature, several making of features including one for the explosion scenes and a look at the visual style used in the films. The bonus content also features some fight training of Matt Damon that he had to endure for the films and the car chase scenes in Russia.
The bonus features also include several features about scenes involving stunts and immense action scenes like the bridge chase scene and a great look behind the scenes using a special vehicle used to film the car scenes. The bonus content also has some more commentary from UCLA psychologist Miriam Davis talking about the mind behind the character.
Not all the bonus content in all three movies is full force single person commentary or a great addition to the film but most of it is at the very least interesting. A few of the features are a mix and blend of comments and statements from several people in the film and additions to the bonus content just like Miriam Davis who gives some comments into the mind of a person like Jason Bourne.
Both the first two films have some great making of bonus content and behind the scenes filming to show how they got all the great sequences and action on film. This is how the content and additional features of a great movie should be and are well worth the cost of the trilogy.
The third film does a great job with the bonus content but steered away from the author Robert Ludlum and the ideas behind the characters and the film. The bonus content in the Bourne Ultimatum concentrated more on the action and scenes in the film and several on how Matt Damon handled himself.
There are some great behind the scenes footage and making of for the car chase scenes and the high energy rooftop chase scene in Tangier. Seeing how Matt Damon trained for his fight scenes and car chase scenes gives you a much better idea of how well he does with not only his acting but as a stunt person.
Matt Damon does a lot of his own stunts and driving where he has learned a lot that shows well in the film and in the making of scenes. The bonus features on the third film show off his talents and those of others, especially director Paul Greengrass who made the film the action adventure extravaganza it is.
The Bourne Trilogy is a unique movie set with plenty of additional bonus content that amounts to about the best and most varied bonus features I have seen for any movie set. The Blu-ray edition is a must for fans of the films and contains enough featured and extra content to make it a great value.
I think some of the main concepts used throughout the filming and the main reasons the Bourne Trilogy makes for a great set of movies is the realism. The movies contain entire scenes like car chases using small normal cars and fight scenes using objects just picked up in the heat of moment that create great action sequences.
The films use real life and no computer animation or effects to create the realism that makes the film unique and believable. I really do enjoy the Bourne trilogy of films and I think several of the comments throughout the additional features capture it well.
One scene where director Paul Greengrass is talking about a car chase scene where Bourne drives a car backwards off a two story parking ramp onto some parked cars says it well. He does not want to pull the camera out wide during the filming because he wants the close in feel of a stunt and not a product shot.
The Bourne Trilogy on Blu-ray is a great collection of movies and tons of bonus content from all three movies that is a great cinematic event.