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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 11-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD

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. --Tom Keogh

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Customer Reviews:

• Great movie. Horrible combo
  I am glad that HD DVD lost the HD format war. The HD DVD combo format was such a flop that I cannot understand why Universal and Warner continued to issue then. The only reason I bought this US combo version and not the UK non-combo version was the fact that the US version had a Dolby TrueHD soundtrack. I have seen this movie a lot and the movie freezes at almost the exact same place, around 1:27 when the bad guys are chasing Bourne in the parking lot, and I am getting tired of it.
  
  However, the movie itself is simply amazing. I didn't like it at all when I saw it in the theater. I think it was because I sat too close to the screen. This HD DVD version is so good (other than the horrible combo stuff described above). The picture and sound is really great. I have come not to like too much the computer manipulated colors on various other releases, like Spider-man 3 and the latest Harry Potter. The natural colors and saturation on this release is so great, full of detail. The sound is equally great with really good dynamics and space created by my five speakers. It is a very engaging sountrack, the basses are deep and the details are clear.
  
  I haven't returned this because I know that all combo format HD DVDs are the same (I have the same experience with American Gangster, which I bought in a local shop where I live, and am considering buying the UK version to get a non combo version) and I can get around it with some fast rewind. What seems to work when the movie freezes is to rewind a couple of seconds and play the sequence again. Ever so often the playback continues past the point it froze. Like I wrote above is this the only version with Dolby TrueHD, so I have chosen to keep it.
  Anyone considering buying this version should consider buying the UK version instead if the Dolby TrueHD soundtrack isn't that important to you. ...more info
• Deposits You Breathlessly
  Paul Greengrass who got a Best Director Oscar nomination for "United 93" in 2006 helmed this project. The hand-held camera in the action sequences magnified the sense of unease and chaos. Matt Damon was nominated for Best Actor back in 1997 for "Good Will Hunting," when he came away with the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. As Jason Bourne, he's tightly wound. His characterizations vary slightly from what we've seen in films like The Departed (Widescreen Edition) & "The Good Shepherd." Julia Stiles again plays Nicky Parsons with a tight-lipped poker face. She does an excellent job as the sympathetic spy on the run. David Starthairn who got an Oscar nomination for "Good Night & Good Luck" plays Noah Vosen, the ruthless CIA director who will break the law in order to protect it. Scott Glenn who did a nice job opposite Hillary Swank in "Freedom Writers" plays Ezra Kramer, the big boss who is playing both sides. Five-time Oscar nominee Albert Finney ("Tom Jones," "Murder on the Orient Express," "The Dresser," "Under the Volcano," & "Erin Brockovich") plays Dr. Albert Hirsch who recruited Bourne into the spy program and remade him into an assassin. Joan Allen plays Pamela Landy, the agent who does not have an ulterior motive. Allen smoked the screen for me in The Upside of Anger which also earned her Best Actress awards from both the Chicago and San Diego Film Critics Associations. She shows a complex character on a continual political balance wheel within her agency. Joey Ansah does a great job as the assassin Desh who flies around Morocco on a motorcycle. The Film won Oscars for Best Editing (Christopher Rouse), Best Sound Editing (Per Hallbert & Karen Baker Landers), & Best Sound Mixing (Kirk A. Francis, Scott Millaw & David Parker). "The Bourne Ultimatum" is an excellent film that picked me up at first frame and deposited me breathlessly at the closing credits. Bravo!...more info
• Love it
  A great movie - a bit too fast at the start, but it settled down into a riveting show....more info
• Jerky Turkey
  Okay, the story is great, but the morons who decided to jerk the camera around should just get out of the biz. It didn't work. It won't work if they try it again. I won't rent it. I won't buy it. If someone gives it to me I'll use the DVD as a Frisbee or a coaster....more info
• Driving backwards off a parking garage, crashing and walking away? Oh, I don't think so...
  This one really pushes the implausability meter. I mean, initially it works, and I'm with it. But when we get up to to the sequences of "jumping off a roof through windows and landing perfectly" then the serious doubts start to manifest.
  Great, breath-taking action and jerky cinematography (but would it have killed them to mount the camera, just once, for just one still scene?)
  
  The big payoff at the end was sortof a dud. I won't give spoilers here but... that's it? That was the big three-years-of-running, three-film secret?
  
  I dunno. Not much of a payoff. Now Bourne vs. 6-7 super-soldier guys in hand-to-hand.... that would have been cooler.
  
  Thumbs down if you need to, but I bet you thought the same thing......more info
• Rewriting the genre
  A satisfying conclusion to the trilogy? That would be like crediting "The Matrix" with a satisfying level of originality.
  
  Everything the makers, cast and crew have learned about what makes the Bourne formula tick, and click, is revved to supercharged perfection in this pinnacle of a movie.
  
  More is not always better (Matrix 2?), but with careful attention to detail and a plot that works like a Rolex, Ultimatum's unrelenting pace never feels overblown. Matt Damon's impenetrable oasis of razor focus and quiet, seething menace, now seeming to melt glass, finds a new level of counterpoint in this movie. Damon has become so riveting in this role, it's almost possible to overlook the stellar cast around him, matching step for step in a multi-threaded, multi-tiered, multi-national locomotive of twists and action played out with the orchestration of a Beethoven score.
  
  There's something just plain admirable about a movie franchise which insists on digging deeper, finding something more, when a cruise-control third installment would have sufficed and certainly made bank anyway. ...more info
• Jittery and Ironic
  I have liked all of the Bourne movies, but I like this the best.
  
  Some complain about the jittery hand-held camera. But that's what I like about it. The jumping camera and the extreme closeups lend a documentary, gritty feel that is just right.
  
  Add that to the fact that the whole movie is a violence-marathon AGAINST VIOLENCE, and you get a very unsettling, but very intriguing and thoughtful thriller.
  
  Granted, it is absurdly fast and harsh. No more love-affairs, no more even like-affairs.
  
  Just survival and racing to figure out what has happened--and then trying to deal with it.
  
  Superb acting, superb editing, superb camera-work, all in service of a tense but edifying moral: violence only breeds violence; true courage means resisting the urge to violence....more info
• Hollywood Incompetance, Perfected
  Nice to see that I am not alone in my disappointment for this film, and for the same reason. The jiggly-cam effect is way over the top here. And it zooms in and out, then side to side...like some backyard birthday party using an 8mm camera from the 60's, shot by an excited parent. I couldn't finish watching for the headache that was induced. Sad, too, because I really like the Bourne franchise and was enjoying Matt Damon in the part, outsmarting and out-toughing all those other agents. It looked to me as if the director is trying to gimmick-up a bad film. Clearly Matt Damon can carry any film: from quiet and still to action-packed. But leave it to some Hollywood no-talent to screw it up. Should have been great, but instead delivers a sad, sad movie. ...more info
• I love the Bourne movies!
  This is a smart, fun, action-packed film. It engages you start-to-finish. The intensity grabs you through any screen -- the big screen or your own television. The characters are well developed, and the actors play their roles perfectly. I highly recommend all the Bourne movies!...more info
• Best Bourne yet!!!! A must see for fans of action or thrillers
  This movie is a non-stop thrill ride from beginning to end. I felt as if I was being chased not Matt Damon, thats why this movie is so great. Not its originality, not its special effects, not its acting, (and all are awesome), but what makes this movie and all the bourne movies so great is the fact you feel as if you're in the movie! You find yourself dodging and ducking and other things like that because of the way the movie is presented on camera. Those who get motion sickness too easily may not enjoy this movie because of the camera moving. But they do an absolute suberb job of camera work to make this movie as if you're on the run for the entire time, like Damon is. Bourne Ultimatum (unlike the final Matrix in its trilogy) is the best bourne yet, I felt. They've perfected the work done on the set, by the 3rd release, and it showed. A cant miss!...more info
• The Bourne Disappointment
  Definitely the least best of the three. While the action was great - it seems to have been so at the cost of storyline and performance. The plot was extremely underdeveloped and porous (What was going on with the relationship between Bourne and Parsons?) and therefore negligent of character development as well. Bourne himself seemed disconnected from his environment - mechanical and absentminded - which ultimately worked against sympathies. It wasn't the worst movie I have ever seen, but it certainly wasn't the best....more info
• Best action movie ever!!
  The Bourne series never gets old, and this is the cherry atop the trilogy (but there could be more movies!)... the Bourne Ultimatum was a tough movie to perfect because the previous two had set very high bars and everyone was worried that it would disapoint. It did the opposite. The Ultimatum continued with nail-biting action, packed more suspense, and answered many questions while raising more. You never get bored, its really not predictable, and twists and turns make it a GREAT thrill ride. It a keeper. BUY IT!!!
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• Cant wait
  Im getting all the sick trilogies on Blu ray!
  I cant wait for this one, I hope they come out with this real soon!...more info
• More cheap shots at the CIA
  Having just watched the Bourne Supremacy recently for a second time, I must confess that I was a bit disappointed in The Bourne Ultimatum, the third installment in the Bourne series. The Ultimatum is basically a continuation of The Supremacy. It has all the good elements of Installment #2 which include a series of memorable chase scenes. The opening chase scene where Bourne (unsuccessfully) attempts to save a British journalist from being assassinated is deftly choreographed as Bourne and his hapless charge try to escape from CIA goons and a shadowy hit-man in Waterloo station in London. The second excellent chase scene is shot in Morocco as Bourne attempts to save a CIA operative played by Julia Stiles. That scene is shot in two parts with Bourne following a CIA hit-man on a motorbike and then later on foot through the winding streets of Tangiers. The chase culminates in a violent fight to the death between Bourne and the hit-man. The final chase scene which packs punch is shot in New York City as Bourne breaks into CIA headquarters and steals incriminating documents from the safe belonging to a high level deputy chief played by David Strathairn and then eluding his pursuers by driving his car off of the roof in a parking garage (it looks like all the Bourne movies must end with the obligatory car chase).
  
  The plot in the Ultimatum is a bit clearer than in the Supremacy. It seems that Operation Treadstone has now been replaced by Operation Blackbriar, which basically represents an escalation and expansion of the malicious and illegal CIA program. This time the stakes have been raised: it's the CIA director and his chief Deputy themselves who have the primary responsibility for the program's operation in contrast to the lone traitor in the CIA's midst, Abbott, who committed suicide at the end of The Supremacy.
  
  If you feel it necessary to criticize the CIA, why not utilize a fair and balanced approach? Unfortunately, the writers of The Bourne Ultimatum stack the deck with comic book villains which suggest that the higher-ups at the CIA are all odious bad guys. Don't they do any good at all? What about the fight against international terrorism? According to the Bourne Ultimatum, the people who give the orders at the CIA have went way beyond their mandate--that the use of torture is common and is used not only on opponents but on their own agents (as evidenced by the brainwashing of David Webb--now Jason Bourne). In the comic book, black and white world of The Bourne Ultimatum, leave it to (a now redeemed) Jason Bourne along with his two leading ladies (Joan Allen and Julia Stiles) to fight the out of control CIA bad guys.
  
  Despite the specious subtext of The Ultimatum, with its juvenile view of the CIA and how it operates, The Bourne Ultimatium is still a slick and well choreographed action flick. If I could, I'd downgrade 'The Ultimatum' to a "2.5" as opposed to the "3" I gave to 'The Supremacy'. Let's hope that the producers decide to rehabilitate the image of the CIA somewhat in the fourth installment of Jason Bourne. I'm a registered Democrat but I loathe cheap shots.
  
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• The Bourne Ultimatum
  Another fast paced, but I think, the least interesting, of the Bourne trilogy. Still, it is another very good movie, if you like action and intrigue....more info
• Bourne Ultimatum DVD
  Great movie! Full of Action! Can't go wrong if you like action movies. One of the best!...more info
• amazing action/fight scenes
  truly enjoyable movie, fight scenes much better choreographed than the first Bourne movie. Lots of allusions to the first two so be sure that you see those first. It's a shame that this is the last one, they keep getting better....more info
• Poor direction ruins a potentially good story
  The bourne trilogy seemed to devolve as it went. Bourne Identity was the best, Supremecy was good and Ultimatum disappointed. I look at the direction as the principal flaw in the 3rd film. Jittery hand held camera shots, too many jump cuts too frequently and a ping pong between extreme close ups and long range shots. Whatever happened to setting up a couple cameras at a normal distance to clearly follow the action? Matt Damon was good in the role as was most of the cast, but for me the poor direction really detracted. This isn't a movie I anticipate ever watching again....more info
• Love the Bourne Movies, slow download
  Movie was great, but the slow download means the on demand feature is too slow to be practical. It took 30 minutes to BEGIN the download and about two more hours to actually download! ...more info
• DVD delivered to Spain
  As reported to Amazon, the DVD was delivered to my address in Spain but does not play in this region. Amazon requested I return it....more info
• Worthy Sequel
  This is a worthy sequel to the previous two films in this series. Well done and well acted and the stunt scenes are fast moving and action packed. They also even left open the possiblitie of a fourth film....more info
• The Bourne Ulti-nauseum
  Intense action - check
  Bombastic score - check
  Nauseating, jerky camerawork - check
  Neverending cat & mouse chases - check
  
  
  This time around the Bourne franchise is a bit big for it's britches. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is near indestructible and although the agency trying to catch him gets incredibly lucky tracking him, time after time, they're always a couple steps behind. Don't get me wrong, still an interesting thriller, but I really hope if there is a fourth they try to come back down to Earth.
  
  And one last thing: Why must they save the dope theme music to the very end just before the closing credits?...more info