Sci-fi be damned, what about action movies?
I just watched "The Bourne Supremacy" last night. There's an extended sequence where he's in a stolen taxi, being rammed by vehicles and doing wild stunts in this taxi after being shot in the shoulder. He pours vodka over the wound without flinching, he drives like The Stig after being collided with, and after being broadsided by other cars and getting airborne the taxi still runs perfectly. And then he uses the taxi to ram an enemy in a Mercedes SUV into an abutment.

His brain would have been rattled around hard by all of the collisions, he would have been dizzy from blood loss, he wouldn't have been able to move around as he did with a bullet through the shoulder, and at the end of it he wouldn't have been able to spring out of his wrecked taxi and hold a gun steady on his attacker, or walk out of the tunnel. Not to mention that the taxi would have folded like a soda can after those collisions and should not have been running, and certainly wouldn't have had the power to push a Mercedes SUV sideways into concrete hard enough to kill the other guy.

I like Matt Damon, but the Bourne movies are utterly craptastic.
( Wanderer, Mon 22 Feb 2010, 13:53, Reply)