Movie #168: The Bourne Ultimatum

Movie #: 168
Movie Title: The Bourne Ultimatum
Year Released: 2007

Director: Paul Greengrass
Notable Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Joan Allen, Scott Glenn, Albert Finney, Paddy Considine

Short Description: Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #92
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #69
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 2/18/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: My grade is based solely on the action (both the fight scenes and the chase scenes) and the acting. All of the first three Bourne movies are top notch in those areas. The grade for The Bourne Ultimatum isn’t as high as what I gave The Bourne Identity because the story is wash, rinse, repeat at this point. How many times can a government agency come after Bourne while he’s trying to track down new pieces of his past based on fragments of memories he’s recalled? I don’t want to call the story boring, but it was teetering on that ledge. Hopefully the new, upcoming Bourne movie with Matt Damon deviates from that path and is a bit more original than The Bourne Ultimatum.