The Bourne Supremacy

Onward with the Jason Bourne story.

This is two years after part one ended. Jason and Marie have put some distance between themselves and whoever is out to kill him or both of them and are now in Goa, India. However, the vengeful arm of the agency or anyone they are connected with reaches there, too. The assassin sent to do away with Bourne and opting to do away with Marie instead turns out to be Russian. We later learn he is Secret Service in Moscow.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, two agents are killed while on a mission and at the crime scene a partial print that matches Jason Bourne's is discovered. This happened under the eye of one Pamela Landy, a woman surprisingly far in the dark for someone that high up on the corporate ladder and calling shots. So, still everyone is after Bourne and Bourne is after everyone that is after him.

Some - but far from all - of the loose ends from part one are tied up. Need to leave some for part three, no. The inevitable car chase this time takes place in Moscow. No glass panes smashed far as I could see.

The point of irritation in this one...no matter how big or small the place, assassins just happen to run into their targets and vice versa. Seriously, Jason Bourne is randomly spotted in Moscow by his nemesis.This is a town of about 11,5 million citizens. Even if you are in the same approximate area the chances of you running into each other would be slim, at best.

Still, not bad for a film wedged in between two others storywise.

7/10

The Irrefutable Truth about Demons

Anthropologist Harry receives a video tape showing a rant by the leader of the Black Lodge cult, including a specific threat addressed to Harry. He shrugs it off, even after another warning received from a weird woman who he runs into outside of his place of work.

Soon after, he is kidnapped by a group of weird looking cult members, that refer to him as 'slave' and chain him to the floor in a room. Lucky for Harry, the floorboards are not too solid and he can break free and run off, thus saving himself for whatever was in store for him. He stumbles into a restaurant, where his girlfriend Celia is waiting and before passing out he sees Le Valliant, the cult leader, sitting at a table nearby.

Later, as his girlfriend's place, as he is taking a bath he has a vision of her throat being cut and the body thrown on top of him, while his head is held under water. When he comes to and stumbles out of the bath, he discovers Celia suspended in a crucifixion like setting just as the police start hammering at the door.

He flees, dressed only in a towel, to a rundown motel. From there he calls his colleague Johnny for help, but the unfortunate young man does not live long after leaving Harry. After he discovers Johnny's body in an alley, covered in cockroaches,he again sees Le Valliant. To the rescue comes the weird woman, who introduces herself as Bennie. Together they get away on a bus.

But there seems to be no escaping the cult. Apparently, they had something to do with Richard's death. He even sees Celia, alive, and realizes she is a member, as well. The members always seem to find him and, finally, he is overwhelmed by the group and Le Valliant digs out his heart with his bare hands.

Through some ritual, however, Benny keeps him alive and together they go and face the cult again. And prevail after actual demons come to take out Le Valliant, whose powers may have been transferred to Harry.

Next we see them in an insane asylum, where Harry coughs up a bug and Celia returns to tell him that she killed Richard. Later, in the yard Harry reunites with Benny and they find a dead bug that comes back to life in Harry's palm. In the last scene, Celia gets in her car outside the asylum, where Richard (as a zombie? a demon?) is waiting for her in the backseat with a knife.

Weird, weird, weird.

3/10

Star Trek Into Darkness

We start off with Captain Kirk getting in trouble (yet again) for ignoring protocol by risking his ship and crew to save one crew member. Spock, that is, who finds all this highly illogical, of course.

The threat this time around comes from one super human (?) that goes by the name Harrison but turns out to be Star Trek nemesis of old lore Khan. Khan and his people have been asleep for centuries but he alone has been woken by Star Fleet, to use him in any way they can (him being stronger, faster...generally better than everyone else). What they didn't foresee apparently was that he did not comply with their plans and hits them hard, right there in their own HQ.

What follows is a intergalactic man hunt that leads the crew of the Enterprise to Kronos, where they inevitably have a clash with the local Klingons before Khan saves (!) them and gives himself up after learning that 72 torpedoes are aboard the Enterprise. What Kirk and his crew do not know (yet) is that inside every torpedo is a creature just like Khan, so his first order of business is to save his kin.

The Enterprise gets an unexpected visit from a ship headed by star fleet commander Marcus, who wanted Khan dead rather than captured so as to cover up his misjudgment in waking him up in the first place. He is certainly right in warning Kirk about trusting Khan but has no qualms about blowing up the Enterprise with everyone on it. So Kirk, with help from Khan and Scotty, take matters into their hands and take over the now enemy ship.

Of course, Khan turns out to be a very bad guy, indeed. He takes the ship and forces the torpedoes to be transferred over from the Enterprise. As soon as the beaming is concluded he starts shooting the Enterprise. This leads to, first, a battle of the two ships in space and, second, an epic fist fight of Khan vs Spock back on earth, where in the end both ship make it, Khan's not quite in one piece.

Other than action and fists flying, there is also a lot of crying going on, as you can see in the representative photos. Even Spock cries. And he yells. And he gets very, very angry. What gets to Spock is Kirk dying. But, thanks to Khan's superior blood, Bones is able to save him. All is well.

8/10

Ghost Ship

Last Sunday's horror film bonanza (see my previous posts) concluded with Ghost Ship. Sort of as a way to calm down after The Collector/The Collection we needed something blood free and relatively calm. It was....fine. Not really scary.

Some guy contacts a group of what can only be described as ocean teasure hunters because he saw a seemingly deserted ocean liner in the middle of nowhere while flying over and, who knows, it may be worth something. The group is beat and ready to go home but the promise of financial gain prompts them to join in.

When they find the ship it does hold what they were hoping for - gold. And lots of it. It is also haunted by seemingly all the passengers that were on it when they 'mysteriously disappeared' in the 1960s. The disappearance, of course, was not so mysterious after all. Most were killed for the gold the ship was holding.

The new arrivals also find a pile of bodies that could only have been there for a few months. And they start seeing things and miscalculating dangers and people die. (Of course they do.)

Not too surprisingly, the guy that first alerted them to the ship's existance has something to do with all the eery things that have been happening. Turns out he is not a human but once was a very bad man and has to collect souls for his boss (the devil, one assumes) and the ship seemed to be as good a hunting ground as any, but he needed to get someone to fix it agains because it was in danger of sinking.

In the end, the lone survivor is straped to a gurney, because she is badly injured and as she lifts her head she sees the boxes of gold being loaded onto another ship and the bad guy boarding with them.

Oh, well.

4/10