Doug Liman directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow and Mr and Mrs Smith. He was his own cinematographer on the early films and reshaped the action genre with Bourne’s handheld approach.
Doug LimanThe Bourne Identity (2002) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Doug Liman fought the studio through a chaotic shoot, put a fight scene in a Paris apartment with a ballpoint pen, and reset what an action film…
Doug LimanThe screenplay was written by Gary Spinelli. The work is one of the strongest Cruise performances of his late career and the rare American biopic that engages substantially with Cold War foreign policy material.
Doug LimanThe Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
Doug LimanEdge of Tomorrow earns its 8.5 by doing the one thing time-loop narratives almost never manage: making the repetition feel earned instead of gimmicky. Cage doesn't loop because the script needed a device.
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