The Bourne Ultimatum (DVD, 2007, Widescreen)

The Entertainment Critic
Home Edition Video Review
By James Myers
The Bourne Ultimatum
DVD - Wide Screen
Release Date: 12/11/2007
Genre: Action, Thriller
UPC: 025193227423
Source: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Region Code: 1
Presentation: Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound
Language: Français
Time: 1:56:00
Director: Paul Greengrass
Screenwriter:
Tony Gilroy (screenplay) and
Scott Z. Burns (screenplay) and
George Nolfi (screenplay)
Tony Gilroy (screen story)
Robert Ludlum (novel)
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Official Website: http://www.thebourneultimatum.​com/
Features: Deleted Scenes; Man on the Move: Jason Bourne; Rooftop Pursuit; Planning the Punches; Driving School; New York Chase; Feature Commentary with Director Paul Greengrass
Review: 9/10 rating


There are 2 things that make the Borne Series worth watching. One is the tremendous, moving, non-stop action and special effects. The second is Jason Bourne’s (Matt Damon) undeniable desire to learn the truth and exact revenge on his adversaries.
It is Bourne’s internal struggle, admirably portrayed by Damon that makes these films something other than trite spy movies. In Ultimatum, Damon and Bourne are at their action-paced best.

The movie begins immediately after Bourne apologizes to Neski's daughter. Wounded from the Bourne Supremacy car chase, Jason Bourne is still evading the Moscow police. Cornered by two officers while breaking into a medical clinic to treat his wounds, Bourne overpowers the officers and leaves them alive as he escapes, saying his argument is not with them.

The story continues six weeks later when Bourne goes to Paris to tell Marie's brother Martin of her death. Bourne heads on to London by train and reads an article in The Guardian where journalist Simon Ross describes Jason Bourne as a CIA officer. Bourne arranges to meet Ross in London at Waterloo station. Ross, however, is under surveillance because his use of the word "Blackbriar" in a phone call to his editor was tracked by ECHELON, alerting the CIA. After receiving a phone call from Bourne, Ross drives to Waterloo Station and is followed by the CIA, who believe him to be meeting his source there. At the station, Bourne sees CIA officers following Ross and places a prepaid mobile phone on him; through it, Bourne instructs the frightened journalist on how to dodge the station's surveillance, while knocking out the CIA agents attempting to kidnap Ross. However, CIA official Noah Vosen who heads Operation Blackbriar (a renamed Treadstone proposed by Ward Abbott at the end of The Bourne Identity), orders an assassin named Paz to kill Ross and his source. Vosen's team identifies Bourne on a security camera and recognizes him as the original Treadstone assassin, assuming he must be Ross's source. Bourne advises Ross to remain hidden, but Ross panics and reveals himself, giving Paz a clear killing shot. In the ensuing chaos, Bourne steals Ross's notes from his body; the notes reveal Ross's source as Neal Daniels, the CIA's Madrid station chief.

Deputy Director Pamela Landy is asked to help capture Bourne. With Landy's help, Vosen and his team realize that Daniels is Ross's source. They decide to send a team to Daniels's office in Madrid, but Bourne arrives first, finding only one photograph in the otherwise empty safe. Bourne attacks the CIA team when they enter the office. Just as Bourne finishe

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.

"That's What Makes US Special — No More Red Tape!" coos silky Deputy CIA Director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) to colleague Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), as he explains just how it is that he can blithely order State-Sponsored Murder without asking permission.
Landy's disgusted, but it is amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) who really has a problem with it; he being at the top of the Vosen's "To-Do List". As 'The Bourne Ultimatum' hits the ground running, it appears to the casual observer that Vosen has vastly underestimated his outmanned, outgunned opponent. This 3rd adaptation in the Series based on Robert Ludlum's novels is gripping; and as Bourne 'trots the globe', barely one step ahead of the stalking Grim Reaper, its adrenalin-pumped trajectory is a lot of fun.
A Reporter of U.K.'s Guardian Newspaper, Simon Ross (Paddy Considine), sets the tale in motion. He has found a well-connected, well-informed source and written a story about Jason Bourne. Vosen and his cohorts at the CIA are desperate to uncover Ross' source; while Bourne looks at the man as the one who holds the key to his elusive past.
So the race is on to reach the journalist, the lengths to which Vosen will go to achieve his objective offering an indication of just how far he will go and how ruthless is he is likely to be when his big prize, Bourne, comes into view.
But Bourne is 'Assassin As Hero' as the race is enjoined, a marathon sprint that leads from London to Madrid to Tangiers to Manhattan. Damon's strength as an Actor is his regular guy persona; and his character's actions are anything but regular. Whatever comes his way, be it bullets, bombs, hand-to-hand combat, cars crashing and spinning out of control, it does not matter, he is ready for it all. Like the Expert Assassin, he just keeps going and going, surviving to vex his opponents at the Agency for another day.
Director Paul Greengrass' Camera and Editing are as fluid as Bourne's actions. The camera is rarely still and that does lend the drama a certain propulsive momentum.
Greengrass, a filmmaker certainly capable of getting under the skin with nuance and thrills 'Bloody Sunday' and 'United 93' will attest, glides along the surface with Bourne. The action never flags; and the story and the characters are engratiating.
This is glossy entertainment and exhiliraing action mixed with high-octane political thriller....at it's peek !!!!
Will Not Fail You !!!! A+++++++

In This final installment in the Bourne trilogy we find 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.Another intensely physical performance by Matt Damon, the rogue operative is 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. He is 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 and constantly on the run from assassins, intelligence foot soldiers, and cops. Great Action packed Movie.

This may be the best of the Bourne trilogy, and resolves most of the issues remaining after the first two films. I find Jason Bourne an intriguing character not because he is such a mayhem machine but because he doesn't want to be. In a way, as someone else's creation who has no place in the world and can't be ordinary no matter how he wishes he could, he is the heir of Frankenstein's monster. I won't give away any spoilers here, but this film further extends the complexity of that idea. The film is also graced with skilled cinematography and action sequences and excellent performances by Matt Damon, Joan Allen, and Julia Stiles. This is one of the best action films I've seen in years.