Is The Bourne Identity still the best action/suspense movie ever?

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Best? It was never the best. It’s entertaining but not an ear shot above a lot of action movies. In recent cinema Mad Max Fury Road puts it to shame.

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Supremacy is the best Bourne movie. That said, none of them are as good as Fury Road, MI Fallout, Terminator 2, Matrix, John Wick, Raid, Police Story 3, Upgrade. In general, those all put Bourne to shame.

Matrix, Bourne, Wick all good recently, Point Break still has some merit from back when.

list man is back wrote:

Supremacy is the best Bourne movie. That said, none of them are as good as Fury Road, MI Fallout, Terminator 2, Matrix, John Wick, Raid, Police Story 3, Upgrade. In general, those all put Bourne to shame.

I was putting Bourne on top for its attempts at combat realism, and Mad Max is more of a action/horror movie to me, and John Wick is too comical to take seriously. It's more of a comic book movie, which is still cool, just a different thing to me. The Matrix 1 would be a contender for me too, but I would put in the action/sci fi category, not quite the same.

.InjuryProne. wrote:

Best? It was never the best. It’s entertaining but not an ear shot above a lot of action movies. In recent cinema Mad Max Fury Road puts it to shame.

I don't get the love for Fury Road. It struck me as a plotless piece of adolescent drivel. All of the Bourne movies told a better story.

Realistic action movies is pretty niche, most action movies are not realistic...depends how you categorize it but “Heat” could fit in here...

I prefer Daniel Craig’s Bond flicks particularly Skyfall to Damon’s Bourne movies.

It’s also hard to beat Cruise in action films. Collateral also better than a Bourne movie.

I liked the Bourne movies but they're not even really worth watching, the fight scenes are way too protracted and I wouldn't exactly describe them as suspense. For movies in a similar genre I did like the DaVinci Code.

My top 5 (not that anyone cares):

1. Die Hard

2. T2

3. Matrix

4. Lethal Weapon 2

5. Bourne (any of the first 3)

HM: Point Break, Speed, Dark Knight, Raiders of the Lost Ark, all the Mission: Impossible movies except 2

I care. That's why I started the thread :)

Die Hard is awesome, for sure. Although, as we all know, technically a holiday movie. Just messing with you.

Dark Knight is one of my favorites for sure.

I like all the Bourne movies because they are believable. Not only that, but the subtext is that, no matter how hard you try, you can't turn a person into a robot/killing machine without some serious side effects. That is the human side of Jason Bourne, or anyone else.

Davinci Code had more tension , plus the corruption in the Church is easy to portray as the antagonist .

Kirie I wrote:

Davinci Code had more tension , plus the corruption in the Church is easy to portray as the antagonist .

I prefer scifi and distpoian films...a realistic scifi movie “children of men” has solid action sequences.

list man is back wrote:

Supremacy is the best Bourne movie. That said, none of them are as good as Fury Road, MI Fallout, Terminator 2, Matrix, John Wick, Raid, Police Story 3, Upgrade. In general, those all put Bourne to shame.

You’ve got to be kidding, right? MI Fallout is better than Bourne? Fallout was entertaining, but I doubt your judgment on many things if you consider that a better movie than any of the Bourne movies, quite frankly.

Viking21 wrote:

.InjuryProne. wrote:

Best? It was never the best. It’s entertaining but not an ear shot above a lot of action movies. In recent cinema Mad Max Fury Road puts it to shame.

I don't get the love for Fury Road. It struck me as a plotless piece of adolescent drivel. All of the Bourne movies told a better story.

The guy played guitar on a moving truck with a bunch of amps! That has to count for something.

Rocky IV had more action, drama and suspense PLUS:

1. Some memorable lines ("If he dies, he dies" being one of them)

2. Not one, not two, but THREE awesome montages

3. A freaking robot

Viking21 wrote:

I don't get the love for Fury Road. It struck me as a plotless piece of adolescent drivel.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I thought Fury Road was okay. Apples and oranges from the Bourne movies. I prefer the Bourne movies. Those were great. I like suspense and tension. I couldn't stay awake through the John Wick movies. Violence and "action" for its own sake bore me. I liked the MI movies a lot too.

Fury Road was just cool visuals. I found it entertaining at that level. Can't really tell you why the plotless Fury Road was cool and the plotless John Wick was boring.

Just personal taste.

I loved Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy even though there was almost no action and John Le Carre books bore me to tears.

Keep hoping for a great spy movie. They should make a Bond movie every month.

Melissa McCarthy's Spy was great. I love accidental spy or misfit spy movies. Kevin James made one but I don't remember one thing about it.

For what it is worth, if you fall a distance equal to 5 flights of stairs and land on a fat guy, and come to rest over an 18 inch distance, the impulse your body experiences is in the outer fringe of survivability.