The Bourne Ultimatum

Sebastian Peill-M
11/2/15

     The Bourne Ultimatum is the third film in the Bourne series and is the last one starring Matt Damon. It was released in 2007 and made seventy million opening weekend.

     Jason Bourne has returned, this time he chasing after the man who made him the man is. He has no allies and has the CIA still after him despite him proving his innocence. He finally finds someone who has an informant who knows about Bourne and how he came to be. When he finally catches up with the man, the man is shot by the CIA. Then it becomes a race between the Bourne and CIA to get to the informant a man who works for the CIA. When the the informant realizes that he is danger he flees. Both CIA and Bourne meet at the informants house and fighting happens. Bourne escapes with the help of one of his old handlers. Both CIA and Bourne rush to the informant, CIA gets there first and the informant is killed. Then Bourne and his handler then part ways and Bourne proceeds to make his way back to the place he was trained and ends up incriminating the people who created him and escaping.

    The film director and writer did a great job keeping the story fresh, between each film so each is equally as entertaining as the the previous. The acting is good, I mean it is Matt Damon and he is not a bad actor. The head of the operation, David Strathairn, is supposed to be a good actor, according to me grandmother that is. Other appearing characters all have  decent skill skill as well.

The music isn't anything special, it is mainly just the type of music in action movies. High paced, with electric guitar and drumming. The music, despite not being very special, does do a good job at keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat and makes sure that no scene is too dull.

The cinematography in this film are what really make up the the film's greatness. They consist of a variety. One of the most recurring is where the camera is peering around a corner, you have a wall or some other object blocking a portion of the screen and all of the characters and action happening in the middle ground. Then they used what I like to call really shaky filming, it is used often during action or chase scenes and the filming is really shaky, sometime so much you cant even tell what is going on. They really use a lot of the shaky camera when they film what I think is one of the longest chase scenes I have ever seen. Seriously there is like 15 minutes if nothing but people chasing each other. During the chase scene there is so much shakiness I actually started to get motion sick and had to close my eyes for a bit. Besides those 2 major different styles of filming the rest were straight forward, portrait shots for talking, landscape for transitions and birds eye, for people walking.

Overall this film is a great action movie, the story isn't very original as it is almost the same as the first 2 movies but that doesn't take away from its entertainment. Unlike many action films, the main character can actually sustain damage and is often hurt in some way. I enjoy the film and would watch them again.
Interesting Fact: This is the only Bourne movie to win an Oscar. It won 3 Oscars when the other two weren't even nominated
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2ZxjUjSo0