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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 11-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVDAmazon.com: The often breathtaking, final installment in the Bourne trilogy finds the titular assassin with no memory closing in on his past, finally answering his own questions about his real identity and how he came to be a seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Matt Damon returns for another intensely physical performance as Jason Bourne, the rogue operative at war with the CIA, which made him who and what he is and managed to kill his girlfriend in the series' second film, The Bourne Supremacy. Now looking for payback, Bourne goes in search for the renegade chief of CIA operations in Europe and North Africa, partnering for a time with a mysterious woman from his past (Julia Stiles) and constantly--constantly--on the run from assassins, intelligence foot soldiers, and cops. Directed by Paul Greengrass (United 93) with the director’s thrilling, trademark textures and shaky, documentary style, The Bourne Ultimatum is largely a succession of action scenes that reveal a lot about the story’s characters while they’re under duress. Joan Allen, Albert Finney, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, and Paddy Considine comprise the film’s terrific supporting cast, and the well-traveled movie leads viewers through Turin, Madrid, Tangiers, Paris, London, and New York. Overall, this is a satisfying conclusion to Bourne’s exciting and protracted mystery. --Tom Keogh
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Stills from The Bourne Ultimatum (Click for larger image) Amazon.com: The often breathtaking, final installment in the Bourne trilogy finds the titular assassin with no memory closing in on his past, finally answering his own questions about his real identity and how he came to be a seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Matt Damon returns for another intensely physical performance as Jason Bourne, the rogue operative at war with the CIA, which made him who and what he is and managed to kill his girlfriend in the series' second film, The Bourne Supremacy. Now looking for payback, Bourne goes in search for the renegade chief of CIA operations in Europe and North Africa, partnering for a time with a mysterious woman from his past (Julia Stiles) and constantly--constantly--on the run from assassins, intelligence foot soldiers, and cops. Directed by Paul Greengrass (United 93) with the director’s thrilling, trademark textures and shaky, documentary style, The Bourne Ultimatum is largely a succession of action scenes that reveal a lot about the story’s characters while they’re under duress. Joan Allen, Albert Finney, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, and Paddy Considine comprise the film’s terrific supporting cast, and the well-traveled movie leads viewers through Turin, Madrid, Tangiers, Paris, London, and New York. Overall, this is a satisfying conclusion to Bourne’s exciting and protracted mystery. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews:
- Deposits You Breathlessly: Paul Greengrass who got a Best Director Oscar nomination for "United 93" in 2006 helmed this project. The hand-held camera in the action sequences magnified the sense of unease and chaos. Matt Damon was nominated for Best Actor back in 1997 for "Good Will Hunting," when he came away with the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. As Jason Bourne, he's tightly wound. His characterizations vary slightly from what we've seen in films like The Departed (Widescreen Edition) & "The Good Shepherd." Julia Stiles again plays Nicky Parsons with a tight-lipped poker face. She does an excellent job as the sympathetic spy on the run. David Starthairn who got an Oscar nomination for "Good Night & Good Luck" plays Noah Vosen, the ruthless CIA director who will break the law in order to protect it. Scott Glenn who did a nice job opposite Hillary Swank in "Freedom Writers" plays Ezra Kramer, the big boss who is playing both sides. Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney ("Tom Jones," "Murder on the Orient Express," "The Dresser," "Under the Volcano," & "Erin Brockovich") plays Dr. Albert Hirsch who recruited Bourne into the spy program and remade him into an assassin. Joan Allen plays Pamela Landy, the agent who does not have an ulterior motive. Allen smoked the screen for me in The Upside of Anger which also earned her Best Actress awards from both the Chicago and San Diego Film Critics Associations. She shows a complex character on a continual political balance wheel within her agency. Joey Ansah does a great job as the assassin Desh who flies around Morocco on a motorcycle. The Film won Oscars for Best Editing (Christopher Rouse), Best Sound Editing (Per Hallbert & Karen Baker Landers), & Best Sound Mixing (Kirk A. Francis, Scott Millaw & David Parker). "The Bourne Ultimatum" is an excellent film that picked me up at first frame and deposited me breathlessly at the closing credits. Bravo!
- Bourne Ultimatum DVD: Great movie! Full of Action! Can't go wrong if you like action movies. One of the best!
- I love the Bourne movies!: This is a smart, fun, action-packed film. It engages you start-to-finish. The intensity grabs you through any screen -- the big screen or your own television. The characters are well developed, and the actors play their roles perfectly. I highly recommend all the Bourne movies!
- Driving backwards off a parking garage, crashing and walking away? Oh, I don't think so...: This one really pushes the implausability meter. I mean, initially it works, and I'm with it. But when we get up to to the sequences of "jumping off a roof through windows and landing perfectly" then the serious doubts start to manifest.
Great, breath-taking action and jerky cinematography (but would it have killed them to mount the camera, just once, for just one still scene?)
The big payoff at the end was sortof a dud. I won't give spoilers here but... that's it? That was the big three-years-of-running, three-film secret?
I dunno. Not much of a payoff. Now Bourne vs. 6-7 super-soldier guys in hand-to-hand.... that would have been cooler.
Thumbs down if you need to, but I bet you thought the same thing... - amazing action/fight scenes: truly enjoyable movie, fight scenes much better choreographed than the first Bourne movie. Lots of allusions to the first two so be sure that you see those first. It's a shame that this is the last one, they keep getting better.
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