Welcome to another installment of Our 2-Cents Worth.
This week we bring you our thoughts on, The Bourne Ultimatum.
We were hoping that this movie was going to be a good "threequel" in a summer that has brought us several "threequels" with varying degrees of success. We did not hope in vain.
This movie is by far this summer's best sequel (or threequel). In fact it may just be this year's best movie in this genre.
From the beginning, The Bourne Ultimatum, is relentless with its masterfully shot, breathtaking, heart pounding, chase sequences. The movie delivers almost two hours of non stop, in-your-face, excitement under the superb direction of Paul Greengrass.(United 93) A two hour adrenalin rush with such sustained energy and tension that it made us feel exhausted when it was done.
The Bourne Ultimatum is an intelligent screenplay, beautifully written and brilliantly executed by its ensemble cast.
Matt Damon has grown into this role perfectly and he is excellent in this contemporary spy tale of deceit and government corruption.
It may not have been entirely apparent at first, but Bourne is unquestionably Damon's signature role, the one in which a viewer becomes most complicit in the actor's identification with a character. The subjective camerawork merely increases the degree to which one is completely with him in the series, and if this is indeed his last "Bourne," as he has said, then this is a performance to be savored all the more.
Joan Allen returns as the CIA investigator who has slowly come to see that Jason might be the real deal. And Julia Stiles as an in-over-her-head agent again shows up for no credible reason other than the producers want her back. (They're right.)
The movie swings through Moscow and Paris; Turin, Italy; London; Madrid; Tangiers, Morocco; and New York as Jason hones in on who did this to him. Beautiful location shots.
The Bourne Series, has been an incredible box office success with over $500 million in box office receipts from the first two installments alone. Ultimatum opened this weekend as the #1 movie with an additional $70.2 million. (The biggest opening for a film in August EVER) We hope they can talk Robert Ludlum into extending the series because it has become one of the best movie franchises in history. ( The latest in the series is The Bourne Legacy, yet to be filmed)
Matt Damon must return as Jason Bourne.
I hope there is a "fourquel" with the Bourne Legacy; Here are some names that come to mind for future installments:"Bourne Reborn"; "Bourne Again"; "Bourne to Run"; or even" Bourne to be Wild"
We recommend, The Bourne Ultimatum, as the best film of the summer. We give it 4-Stars.
Please stop by again soon, and see what else has received, Our 2-Cents Worth.
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