THE BOURNE LEGACY, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 15 min )

I chose this poster because it has the wrong start date on it: It's a week ahead of schedule.

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where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Sunday, August 12th, 2012
show:  4:10 p.m.
costs:  $10.00 Ticket + $1.06 bulk Chocolate Candies + $4.50 medium 30.0 oz Hi-C Lemonade/Fruit Punch = $15.56
auditorium:  7
seat:  5th row, 9th column

synopsis/overview: There never was just one! And, because of the Jason Bourne "fiasco", Treadstone decides to shut-down the whole clandestine operation by "deactivating" all of the remaining super secret agents, one-by-one. But they underestimate the resilience and persistence of one "chems"-dependent agent.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Special Operations training site; 2.) Nosy writer; 3.) "You break it, you bought it"; 4.) Infection; 5.) Waterloo Station; 6.) Secret Lab; 7.) YouTube; 8.) "You beat the record by two days"; 9.) "You're not a contact, are you"; 10.) Eminent threat; 11.) A familiar name; 12.) "We're transitioning everyone"; 13.) Nosebleeds; 14.) '"You hearing that"; 15.) "We just lost that second beacon"; 16.) Implanted tracking device; 17.) "You should have left me alone"; 18.) "Sin-Eaters'; 19.) Mad scientist on a killing spree; 20.) Examining room; 21.) "I always thought he was gay"; 22.) Assassins in disguise; 23.) "You do this"; 24.) "Number five"; 25.) "We can't drive there"; 26.) "Can you viral-off Blues"; 27.) Viral receptor mapping; 28.) "This was me"; 29.) "Where the hell can she go"; 30.) "She was having her passport picture taken"; 31.) Watch; 32.) "Consider yourself informed"; 33.) Police; 34.) Chase; 35.) "Hang-on tight. Follow me"; and 36.) "No more!"

audience reaction:  Just an average reaction from this bunch.

recommendation:  It was just "okay", to me. This movie is one hour too long. There is not that much going-on in the first hour. So, if you go see this movie and happen to be up to an hour late for the show, you won't really miss that much! I'm afraid that only the Pilipinos will be the only ones most interested in seeing this fourth installment ( and that would be the Pilipinos in the Metro Manila area only ). Ha, ha, ha.

spoiler alert!  "There was never just one." Yeah, you kinda get that idea after watching part one with Matt Damon in it---Duh .... Here in the United States, if there is an emergency vehicle on the road with its siren blaring and its lights flashing, and whether or not the emergency vehicle is traveling in the same direction as you are, YOU HAVE TO PULL OVER TO THE CURB OR THE ROAD SHOULDER ( unless a center divider shields you from an oncoming emergency vehicle )---It Is The Law! After I was sworn-in as a naturalized citizen eleven years ago, one of the officials told me that a proper passport photo would have to have both ears shown! When I went to Davao City in Mindanao, Philippines ( southern part of the archipelago ), many years ago, I stayed mostly indoors sweating 24-7 for the first two weeks with an electric fan on full-blast until my body became gradually acclimatized to the weather. Yet, these two fugitives, fresh off the plane, stayed in a hot and humid bedroom without the electric fan on--and Metro Manila in Luzon, Philippines ( northern part of the archipelago ) actually gets much hotter and more humid than it does in Davao City! But, as soon as the bad guys came "sniffing around", the electric fan was kept turned-on even though the bedroom was no longer occupied! "Chief, how do we spot the fugitives in this crowd when they are well blended-in?" "That's easy. Just look for a couple of stupid idiots who are dumb enough to go walking around wearing a jacket in the hot and humid weather that we are currently having here in Manila!" ( Ha, ha, ha. ) Big Navel Oranges in the Philippines would be considered a luxury fruit--they didn't have it prominently-sold when I was there in '82 - '83. So, anybody who could afford to buy a whole bunch of such a luxury fruit wouldn't be standing around waiting for a bus or a jeepney; a person who could afford to buy such a fruit could also afford to ride in a taxicab! And why didn't they just substitute the comparably-sized native Dalandan for the Orange?

Dalandan fruit, a.k.a. Citrus Aurantium

"Hang-on tight. Follow me!" he commanded. The only problem with this particular command was that he told his own passenger to follow him! What else could his own passenger have done in that particular predicament? There was no way for that motorcycle to stay up as it slid down the handrail without either one of them balancing it with their legs because the bike's Gyroscopic Effect was compromised. "No more!"--I hope that this means what I think it means: No More Bourne installments/sequels! Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha---Snort!

I don't know how many millions of Dollars they spent to make this movie, only to have the sharp-eyed, four-eyed Cine-Man find many mistakes in it. Which begs the question: When is Hollywood ever gonna realize that IT ACTUALLY NEEDS MY SERVICES as Cine-Man?!?!?!

fyi:  When I was in Michigan three years ago, my brother-in-law showed me the fake Rolex watch that he bought somewhere in Metro Manila, Philippines. The one thing that the seller told him about fake Rolexes is that the gold-tone ones are not good to buy because the "gold" rubs-off eventually under normal use! So, yep ... that close-up shot of the fake gold Rolex near the end of the movie is an "inside joke"--and you can consider yourself in on "it" now.

Supposedly, according to my sister in Michigan, all of the taxicab drivers, the bus drivers and the jeepney  drivers in the Philippines wear fake Rolex watches. Ha, ha, ha.

You don't have to go to the Philippines, or some other exotic locale, to buy fake Rolexes. You can buy them on-line. There are actually two types of fake Rolexes sold on-line: The cheap version ( like the ones sold in the Philippines that stupid people think that they are getting a good deal on--please don't tell my brother-in-law ) and the slightly more expensive version which are of a better quality. You do get what you pay for--even on fake merchandise!

word of advice: Tie-up loose ends, a.s.a.p.

tidbits:  I could have used the first hour of this movie to catch-up on some much-needed sleep-time, had I known beforehand that it was just an extraneous hour!

And speaking of sleep ....

Because of my bad back, I only got about eight ( 8 ) hours of sleep in the last two weeks--with no sleep at all in the first five days, and no sleep last night, as well!

My experience should prove interesting and promising to those involved in the military experiment on Sleep-Deprivation. Today's militaries want their soldiers to be battle-ready 24-7. And my experience proves that a sleep-deprived person can be fully alert and highly functional in the course of a day provided that such a person is allowed a 30-minute Delta Brainwave Frequency Sound Meditation session and allowed to nap for 30 - 45 minutes per day. There's a Caveat, though: The first few Delta Brainwave Frequency Sound Meditations will most likely put someone in Deep Sleep for 12 hours or more per session. I'm so hoping that the Pentagon ( which pays $500.oo per toilet seat and $1,000.oo per hammer ) will pay me handsomely for my "research findings" since I'm a patriotic citizen doing my part to help develop a better and meaner American Military--I just hope that all of my foreign country readers are US soldiers stationed overseas ( 'got my fingers crossed on this one )!

I salute the men and women of the US Armed Forces!!!

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