Picking Nits
The panel questions Bourne's survival and recovery, Paris geography, Marie staying with him, killing Clive Owen's character, and the unrealized chance to make that assassin a recurring rival.
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- Bourne surviving unconscious in the sea after two back wounds is the first major nitpick.
- His rapid recovery and ability to work on the fishing boat and fight assassins are also questioned.
- Liman admitted that the Paris car chase uses streets that do not connect logically.
- The geographic mistake is compared with illogical Boston routes in Blown Away.
- Marie not fleeing a dangerous stranger at the first opportunity is questioned.
- Marie is quickly shown on a wanted poster and is aiding and abetting an assassin, making it harder to untangle herself as she falls for him.
- The panel asks whether killing Clive Owen's assassin wasted a possible recurring adversary for the franchise.
- The alternatives are for the assassin to fake his death, get away wounded, or team up with Bourne to take the whole thing down.
- The Carlos the Jackal antagonist from the Ludlum book is offered as a model for an equally powerful recurring assassin.
- Karl Urban is described as effectively replacing Clive Owen's assassin function in the next film.
- Clive Owen is reported to have been expected to become James Bond.
- The Clive Owen discussion broadens into uncertainty about why his apparent path to major stardom did not last.
- Inside Man and Closer are cited as evidence of Owen's leading-man ability.