A witty, relentlessly paced thriller with one of the year's classiest supporting casts.
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08/02/07
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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Reviews Counted:223
Fresh:208
Rotten:15
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Here, as in that other new-style spy movie Casino Royale, everything is hard and fast and brutal and, above all, straight-faced. No throwaway lines, no puns.
08/02/07
One more demonstration of the rule that the third episode of a movie cycle is its worst.
08/02/07
Damon's minimalist style is key to why the Bourne movies have become an oasis from other blockbuster action fare; freed from the bells and whistles of computer-generated effects...and they've succeeded in bringing the genre back down to earth.
08/02/07
Solid but not overwhelming. If another sequel does happen to be made in the future, Jason could afford to be given a little more meat and complexity.
08/02/07
The Bourne series makes for an unusual action franchise. All the movies are exhilarating, including the third installment, The Bourne Ultimatum, which opens tonight and leaves a bruise.
08/02/07
The battle is as long as it is ferocious, and in the audience I saw the movie with, nobody took a breath until it was over. Then they exhaled in a noise that exploded into a cheer.
08/02/07
His [Greengrass'] masterful direction of The Bourne Ultimatum makes this third installment unequivocally the summer's best 'threequel.' It also is easily the best action thriller of the year.
08/02/07
Top CriticGreengrass somehow manages to keep the pace aerobically snappy for almost two hours, never letting it lag.
08/02/07
Predicated on finally delivering answers we basically already know...and cornered into bigger and better variations on the same basic action tropes, The Bourne Ultimatum turns out to be: be pretty damn exciting or get off the stage.
08/02/07
This movie has no pretence of being about anything but the action scenes. Fortunately, the action scenes are choice.
08/02/07
Unlike most summer movies, it demands that the audience keep up, and only occasionally stoops to over-explaining when things get too obtuse.
08/02/07
For once, I didn't feel cheated by an unresolved ending, but let's hope this is the end. Robert Ludlum wrote three Bourne novels, and this is one series that ought not to be dishonored by inferior sequels.
08/02/07
Paul Greengrass has to keep it moving all the time, putting Matt Damon through endless car and foot chases and taking to a dizzying extreme his signature style of handheld camera, lurching zooms, whiplash pans, and second-to-second editing.
08/02/07
A thoughtful, superior action movie.
08/02/07
From that first moment to the last of this peerlessly mounted action thriller, the chase never stops. Bourne's nerve never falters, or that of director Paul Greengrass, either.
08/02/07
Moves relentlessly, intelligently forward, as everything extraneous gets chucked over the side ... the picture thrums with an unbelievable amount of energy.
08/02/07
The Bourne Ultimatum is a spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
08/02/07
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy, who's been around the block with Bourne on the first two pictures, juggles all of this to-ing and fro-ing with admirable precision.
08/02/07
Faster and, if possible, furiouser than its predecessors.
08/02/07
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