The Bourne Ultimatum

You know those films where the adverts totally over hype it an you end up watching it but all the good scenes were in the advert anyways.. this is the total opposite! awesome end to an amazing series of films.
 
I like this one.

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Part Review - Part Fanboi Wankfest

Saw this in Leicester Sq. last night with a preview audience of, surprisingly, normal, non-insane or not-gay-for-Matt (put me in whichever category you feel appropriate) ladies and gents who proceeded to have a right old time. After months of me pining and whining for this to show up you're reading the post of one very happy Bourne fan. I'd done my best to avoid seeing, hearing or reading as little as possible throughout the incubation and production of the movie, and I can tell you I saw precisely 2 scenes (Bourne walking down the street in NY, jumping across into window in Tangiers), and heard the Landy "...turn everything you have on..." bit, Bourne's "..we'd be having this conversation face-to-face" line, and had also read about the 'dishcloth as defensive weapon' scene. This was because either I couldn't leave the cinema quick enough if the trailer appeared on screen, or I couldn't jam my fingers in my ears hard enough if I was too far away from the exit. If I was seated at the midway section of the cinema and made a run for it, the sight of a gammy-legged, grown man throwing himself down a flight of stairs shouting "LA-LA-LA" may have gotten me taken out by SO19.

So, I got to see the film knowing very little about it visually, but new Strathairn was in it (like him), Joan Allen was back (I still would, even at 50), and Paddy Considine was in it (wouldn't know him if he sold me clothes pegs at my front door). Electric opening setup with a continuation from Supremacy, layering some plot lines up until the Waterloo sequence which had me Polygripped (teeth nailed-on) for it's 20 mins ******* high- tension cat-and-mouse. At that bit's climax with Bourne doing an anti-Streisand on four guys, the whole cinema started clapping! I've never experienced that in a UK cinema.

The stalking of Nicky was about a good a piece of edge-of-your-seat stuff that I've seen in any film, culminating in the best fight of the lot - one, in a daring move by Greengrass, you could actually see this time. That was pretty brutal, especially for a rated 12, and fair play to the director for making it so damn, intense. One person clapped at the end of this fight but no-one else joined in. Heavy.

The insertion of the end of Supremacy into the middle of Ultimatum I did not see coming at all, and to me, was a stroke of genius. There were lots of references and hints to the other films throughout which reinforced the feeling that this was part of a story, and that it was definitely leading to an endpoint. The flashbacks to the other films, and the little things that were total nods to the others....Nicky cutting and dying her hair like Marie, the "look at what they make you give.." line, the car crash heading towards the concrete median with Bourne letting the bad guy live, John Powell's music, which was lifted directly from Identity rather than Supremacy as far as I could tell, right up to using the Universal logo at the opening even though Doug Liman said on the Identity commentary that the studio told him that was a big mistake as the studio intro music usually shuts everyone up in the theatre. All of this leading up to the final scene which was a mirror image to the opening shots from Identity. The ending to me with all the past history of David Webb's life enforced to me what I liked so much about the first one. Webb was a trained killer on his own volition - someone who signed up to it, made a choice to do it, and was bloody good at it. No nice-guy happy ending a la Hollywood. The scene where he changed from Webb to Bourne was harsh and a pat on the back to whoever got that most of vital of plot points past the studio.
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I wish I applauded it now. :(

I REALLY want to watch this again.. But I'm afraid I won't enjoy it as much. :(

I can't watch any other films at the moment (which isn't like me at all) as they ALL seem rubbish after watching The Bourne Ultimatum. :/
 
I also thought it was brilliant. And there is a fourth book, written by another author a while after the original trilogy, but I doubt they'll make a film of it because Bourne is older. Not only this, but in the books his girlfriend isn't killed and they are still together at the end of the trilogy.

edit: Apparently a fifth book by the other author came out in June.
 
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Just got back from watching this and thought It was very good, Although bits of it are like the second one, wont go into detail incase people haven't seen it
 
BillHicksRIP said:
I like this one.
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Fancy sticking a spoiler warning on your quote?

Bit of a poor show, old chap ;):p

Though the quote echoes how I felt about the movie, especially that it rewarded people who have followed the trilogy...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I watched this tonight and all I have to say is wow what a sequel. A lot trilogy films have let downs but this was great the way they connected the story from the last film.

This film, Transformers and Die hard 4 are the best films I have seen all year.
 
Now that most have seen it i can really critique this film.
I thought it was dull too much emphasis on style over content
wasn't enough action fighting shooting for my liking the first film remains the best by a long long way.
Oh you will think this is the second coming if you rate that dire film transformers btw.
 
C64 said:
I thought it was dull too much emphasis on style over content
wasn't enough action fighting shooting for my liking the first film remains the best by a long long way.
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Woah woah woah woah woah there... Not enough action? Did you even watch the film? This was non-stop action right from the word go.
 
C64 said:
Now that most have seen it i can really critique this film.
I thought it was dull too much emphasis on style over content
wasn't enough action fighting shooting for my liking the first film remains the best by a long long way.
Oh you will think this is the second coming if you rate that dire film transformers btw.
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Impressed by your reasoned and informing critique - perhaps you can explain where it went so horribly wrong? I didnt think it left out anything or really had to dwell on a particular point, just like the other films didnt...

C64 said:
Film was dire almost as bad as the fantastic 4
if you rate this film i would say you have a mental age of about 10.
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Must admit I loved the pearls of wisdoms that came from your Transformers review too :p...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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awesome end to an amazing series of films.
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Nice to think so but the rights for another two books (the final books by Ludlum on this character?) have been bought up by the production company so it looks likely that there will be more made.

Anyway the film itself is well done, good action, decent plot and not horribly long either which is nice but somehow I just felt there was just a little something missing that stops it being a "great" film.
 
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Anyone spot the cameo appearance of Norton Internet Security? LOL!

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semi-pro waster said:
Nice to think so but the rights for another two books (the final books by Ludlum on this character?) have been bought up by the production company so it looks likely that there will be more made.
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AFAIK the last two books (Legacy and Betrayal) werent written by Ludlum and they just used his name in the title...

Shockingly bad books from what I understand - the Bourne character is supposedly in his 60s...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
Impressed by your reasoned and informing critique - perhaps you can explain where it went so horribly wrong? I didnt think it left out anything or really had to dwell on a particular point, just like the other films didnt...


Must admit I loved the pearls of wisdoms that came from your Transformers review too :p...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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yea i know i should be on film2007 tbh i think i speak the blunt truth nobody likes
hearing though
as a fan of the first film & second to a certain extent i just felt
this lacked that oomph and was far too much about cams shaking
and tracking people showing all the technology and how they are doing it
rather than seeing bourne own some people with his moves
which in my opinion is the best thing about the film the way he beats
gets away from people and so forth just wasn't too much of that going on really it is after all an action film so i expect action not arty farty camera work.
And i standby my transformers review adamantly.
 
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