24 Aug 07
The Bourne Ultimatum Film
The final part of the Bourne trilogy, not only lives up to its predecessors but strides way out ahead of any other action films you are likely to see for quite a while. The Bourne Ultimatum takes place right after the end of the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy, in fact you could run the two films together in a five hour long globe-trotting chase movie, although your head would probably explode if with sheer excitement if you did.
Brit director Paul Greengrass pulls out his stylistic weaponry- handheld cameras, rapid editing, terse and speedy storytelling, smart and minimal dialogue. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is tracking down the men of the shadowy Treadstone group that turned him into a trained killer. After a lead from Guardian journalist (Paddy Considine), he fights his way from London Waterloo, to New York via Morocco.
A satisfying conclusion to an excellent trilogy, and for once, I didn't feel cheated by an unresolved ending. I was discussing this with the girlfriend on the way out, and although there were a few questions that remain unanswered, they should leave it be.
As a closer- Bill O' Reilly hates it:
I knew this movie was trouble when I read the reviews. Almost all the critics liked it. The only way American movie critics would like a violent car chase film like this was if it bashed the USA, which, of course, it does.
If O'Reilly hates it, you should love it. He is the most repugnant slug of a man, who also stated that The Simpsons Movie was more realistic than The Bourne Ultimatum.