• The film’s narrative is slim- it is essentially bourne protecting 3 people- Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, and (with a twist)- Joan allen- it’s a great example of style over substance- such a great exercise and no other films have the feel and style of a greengrass film
  • Notable for its handheld camerawork and purposefully shaky style
  • European police sirens- when I hear them now I almost just think of bourne movies
  • Action sequences are made for greengrass’s form- I’m not sure it would work in other genres
  • Dazzling final shot and even that is interrupted with yet another greengass montage of the presuming fallout
  • Mid-shot zooms purposefully unfocused
  • Superb cast from Strathairn to Finney to Scott Glenn
  • Won, and justifiably so, the Oscar for best editing
  • Washed out flashbacks in film form
  • Certainly reminds me of the conversation and is a meditation on surveillance
  • The waterloo train station set piece is a jaw-dropper and makes for one of the best single sequences of 2007
  • I’m sure the ASL (average shot length) is really low
  • Consistent shallow focus dialogue sequence where the background dominant talking party is shot crisply but the foreground receiver of the dialogue is in shallow focus
  • Top 5 of the year quality film
  • Must-See