Despite all the globe-trotting, the on location shooting combined with the gritty street-level acrobatics lend a palpable sense of reality and suspense.
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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Reviews Counted:224
Fresh:208
Rotten:16
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: The Bourne Ultimatum is an intelligent, finely tuned non-stop thrill ride. Another strong performance from Matt Damon and sharp camerawork from Paul Greengrass make this the finest installment of the Bourne trilogy.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $227,137,090
Synopsis: The government's most wanted amnesiac super-spy returns in this thrilling third installment in the Jason Bourne franchise. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM picks up where the THE BOURNE SUPREMACY left off,... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, Edgar Ramirez
Director: Paul Greengrass
Reviews for The Bourne Ultimatum
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticAs good as the first two films were, as well as they redefined the action espionage thriller, the third film falls victim to its own innovation.
08/31/07
Top CriticA multi-layered, multi-national thriller that delivers on every count, including raising issues of morality, which are at the heart of the film
08/25/07
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07/31/07
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04/23/09
Greengrass comes full circle from the War on Terror film that bit its tongue to the popcorn flick that speaks volumes.
12/01/09
It's all too easy to see that the filmmakers and Damon are coasting when they could be soaring.
08/02/07
Will someone get this man a steadicam?
08/02/07
Ultimatum tries to stir sympathy for its indestructible hero. But Jason Bourne has all the charm of a howitzer. He needs some time with the Harry Potter bunch.
08/03/07
When it's not fast and furious, The Bourne Ultimatum settles for slick and noisy... and it's often hard to tell these two moods apart.
08/09/07
Damon's involuntary flair for springing into an ***-whopping whirlwind is rivaled by his gift for staring into space and projecting smudged flashbacks onto his eyelids.
08/27/07
Director Paul Greengrass insists on utilizing cameramen with Parkinson's disease and editors more concerned with celluloid masturbation than continuity.
08/04/07
Is this stylized action -- obscured by shaky camerawork and in-your-face edits -- really more exciting than the eye-popping stunts that unfold in real time in a cheesy martial-arts adventure like 'Ong-Bak'?
08/10/07
This film is less interested in good plot than it is in having long, drawn-out action chases of which there are entirely too many.
08/08/07
A trio of superb cat-and-mouse sequences ... more effectively pinpoint Bourne's psychological anxiety and confusion than Damon's robotic, one-note performance.
12/18/07
Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling.
07/31/07
Zzzzzzzzz.
08/30/07
Like the other two, Ultimatum has little problem working up a frantic pace & maintaining it. However, Ultimatum has other problems that make it the least effective Bourne.
08/01/07
It's frenetic to the point of crazy while achieving a mark that barely exceeds mediocre.
08/02/07
Top CriticIf you do go to see this thinly scripted and very repetitive action film, bring your seasickness pills [because of the heavy use of the "shakycam"].
08/03/07
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