Here’s why you MUST catch up on the best threequel of the year:
Matt Damon. James Bond and Ethan Hunt suddenly look old and haggard in front of mean i-mean-business Jason Bourne. Matt Damon gives it his best – fierce and likeable!
Paul Greengrass. He’s on my list of my must-watch-any-movie-he-makes director list. Bourne Supremacy was supreme, United 93 further cemented his touch, and Bourne Ultimatum proves he’s the ultimate creator of edge-of-seat action. Heck, I demand henceforth every single action movie be made by him. Period.
If there is one threequel to watch this summer, it is this one. Bourne 3 beats the crap out of Spidey 3, Shrek 3, Pirates 3 and another part 3 by a distance.
Finally a spy thriller that’s intelligent; the hero doesnt take the CIA to be idiots. The CIA don’t take Bourne to be an idiot. Result – an exciting cat and mouse game played throughout the movie.
This is how books written decades ago should be adapted. Especially spy dramas. Forget the fact that Bourne series has little resemblance to the original trilogy. Heck, Robert Ludlum would be smiling in his grave, perhaps harboring a wish to have written the screenplay himself.
A director who knows how to build drama and action from the first scene to the very last scene. Not a minute extra is wasted, not one wasted scene. Jason Bourne is on the run, and he has no time. The audience must simply catch up or be left behind.
Elongated chase sequences which get your adrenaline rushing. The waterloo station action is simply astounding for its drama – a single scene taken from hundred different angles all depicting the same thing in real time; has to be watched to understand what I mean.
Locales – every spy thriller must traverse the world. This is no different. A spy thriller without Moscow, London, Paris and Italy is not a spy thriller. We get to see all of them.
Paul Greengrass’s direction. Did I mention that already?
Easily the best action movie I’ve seen since…. Bourne Supremacy. Watch it or be left out. Certified A++ movie.