Like the earlier Bourne Movies - Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy, this is another hell of a good movie that will get you firmly seated throughout the heart-pounding-chase. Unlike the US release (early August), the movie was released almost 7 weeks late in India on 21st September, 2007.
The Bourne Ultimatum as been well para-phrased as a movie that moves at an insanely hectic pace and its stunningly edited headlong pursuits and brutal fights - in which every second-long, hand-held shot is like a tile in a giant mosaic or a pointillist dot in a Seurat painting - often leave you unable to breath.
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is a man on a mission, after losing his memory and all sense of self, has come to realize that he also lost part of his soul. He rises and rises again in this fantastically kinetic, propulsive movie - leading him to where it all started - the recruitment, giving up his name - David Webb - his first kill, the bigger plot - the upgrade from Operation Treadstone to Blackbriar.
The movie is the work of the unusually smart industrial entertainment, with action choreography that’s as well considered as the direction. After a brush with happiness with a German woman, Marie (Franka Potente) in the first movie (Bourne Identity) which he lost in the second (Bourne Supremacy) - Marie was shot in Goa (India) - Bourne goes to Moscow, Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins after him.
In the third movie, Bourne runs and runs and runs, leaping from one sub-blasted roof to the other through open windows as the cops chased him. He is trying to chase down a man who is trying to chase down Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles). Bourne then comes fist-to-fist with Paz (Edgar Ramirez), then the camera is thrown to the audience and we were going along with it, smack in the middle. It is thrilling at first, then the blows continues to fall, the bodies slow down, the book is slammed, spine out into the man’s neck, it was a ghastly and spine chilling scene.
The movie shoves its points home forcefully, making you jump in your seat and twitch, but it’s careful not to leave any bruises - kinda film making with a rubber hose. The movie took the audience to a huge train station, a cramped room and then with whipping cameras and shuddering edits, breaks that space into bits as another bullet finds it mark, another body bites the dust and the world falls apart just a bit more.
However, with ultimate precision, the movie picks up those pieces, reshaping them so Bourne can move to the next location, the next kill, as he gets closer and closer to the mystery of his terrible existence.
This is a movie to be relished and enjoyed slicing through every moment of it. The “intermission” break in the middle was even uncalled for and we should do away with such for short Hollywood movies. Note: Yes, in India, we have breaks in between a movie!
For a detailed version of the story, Wikipedia has everything about The Bourne Ultimatum. Refer to IMDB for the cast, crews and posters. The Bourne Ultimatum is definitely worth to be part of your DVD collection.
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