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lets hope its not down hill from here

I'm guessing there will be no single shot held longer than 2 seconds, as well as a return of the famous unsteadycam camera mounts?

Included with your ticket: a free dose of Dramamine®, plus a souvineer upchuck receptacle!

If you've actually read any of the books, there will be upchuckery: starting with the first Bourne film, huge parts of the story were simply passed over...then the story just went its own new way.

Seems like Jason Bourne is sort of an Andromeda Strain of his own, evolving and morphing with no regard to the original creation.

That's par for the course for most movies-from-books.

Artistic license is what I believe they call it; in the same way that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six version of Hereford bears absolutely no relation to the reality.

With Bourne, I would imagine the producers were drawn by the man in jeopardy aspect of the plot; the premise of just about every Ludlum book, as I recall. The plot itself, however, is well out of date, hence the divergence. If you would prefer a more book accurate version, check out the Richard Chamberlain mini series. Given that it had the budgetary constraints of a TV film it was still, nonetheless, quite enjoyable.

As for a fourth film I, like Bob, have mixed feelings. I thoroughly enjoyed the first three (unusually, they got better as they progressed) and welcome the prospect of a further episode. I’m concerned though about the plot (what would draw Bourne out of retirement?) and how could they possibly better what’s already been done? I’m fearful of the result being too outlandish.