In 2010, the political drama starring Naomi Watts didn’t make a splash but now the director hopes a director’s cut will appeal to the current climateThe films of Doug Liman are half-siblings: they have a lot in common underneath, but don’t always look alike.
Swingers, the likable low-budget 1996 comedy that also launched the careers of Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, was the movie that first made his name, but the big break was the 2002 blockbuster The Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon as a deadly amnesiac.
Since then, he’s developed a reputation as a dependable, protean Hollywood director, sometimes mischaracterized as an action journeyman.Even when he changes up his style, as in last year’s mile-a-minute American Made, he can’t seem to get away from his preoccupations: skulduggery (often involving the CIA); military-industrial flim-flam; characters who find themselves in plots beyond their control or are forced to start over.
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