Bourne Ultimatum

Let’s just start of like this: The Bourne Ultimatum (BU) was much better than The Bourne Supremacy (BS). It however was not better than the Bourne Identity (BI). Now that being said I would like to take a few moments to address the director of this movie… uh hum… here it goes: Some one in post production should have mentioned to you that the hand held camera, super close up running and jerking all over the place shooting of this movie that lasted 10 minutes at a crack is FUCKING ANNOYING!! Hey jerk-off if you film like that; try only using it for effect and not as an overall technique. When you make the audience PUKE it takes away from the overall experience. Its filming felt a lot like the opening credits of Seven. It was very jerky, really quick cuts to slightly different angles, a little static-ee/ grainy; and it really detracted from the movie. Very distracting. It was one of those things that I had to go home and re-watch BI to see if I had had a stroke in the last few years that I was unaware of that I might have forgot all of the cool hand held camera work from the original. As it turns out not so much; they had used a little bit kind of as a devise to obtain a feel (very cool concept) or set a mood inside of the movie. I am sorry for ranting on this but it was very distracting. You know eff that; all of that hand cam bunk really took away from a movie that was pretty darn good otherwise. Paul Greengrass take a note: there was too much hand cam stuff in the Supremacy and you doubled it in Ultimatum; watch Doug Liman’s version and learn how to punctuate not litter.

Okay I think I extracted that demon. The rest of the movie was really pretty darn good. The story was much more complete that BS and easier to follow and as an even better bonus it made sense. Frankly I am a big fan of just make sense. You can twist and turn and even throw in a full on curve ball from time to time but at the end have it all come together and make sense. This movie did all of those things and was able to have a really great feel of symmetry with the original movie. It tied up enough loose ends so that if you closed down the franchise right now It would feel very complete and satisfying. But, if they decided to continue you would not be upset by that either.

A couple of good things in this sucker:

Picking up right where BS left off (very good)
Julia Stiles was hot (Me-yow)
Gritty very real locations (spending the extra dough to shoot it Spain, Tangiers... worth it!)

Matt Damon was smoken hot (my wife made me put that in)
Very real feeling counter-surveillance
Great fight in a bathroom

Beating someone to death with a hard cover book [(yes please) go to web site, go to media and select #6]
Super foot chase
Wicked sweet motorcycle chase
Totally awesome car chase (are you sensing a chase theme)

Julia Stiles new short hair cut HOT (my wife even thought that was hot... gigity gig)
Amazing disregard for the well being of a NY city police car (go to the web site, go to media, select #8)
Real NY city resident reaction to car chase (hey you see that freaking car go flying through the air… lets get a bagel)

Did I mention Julia Stiles
http://www.thebourneultimatum.com/

I already discussed the bad from this so… out of a six pack I would give it a 4 beers