So to clean off the stench that was Hot Rod I decided to tread back into the murky waters of the Cineplex to check out the 3rd and hopefully not the last adventure of Jason Bourne.
The film got off to a great start with Jason being chased through some European city and when confronted with the opportunity to kill a policeman at point blank range utters: “My argument is not with you.” and walks away. Great start.
The whole movie played out brilliantly over the next 2 hours, as Bourne goes from being backed into one corner to another, and eventually finding the memories he’s been searching for since the beginning of the trilogy. His final fight scene with a fellow Treadstone asset/agent/assassin is really one of the best fight scenes I have seen in a long time. The camera work during the scene bounced around a lot so after the first few minutes you become a little nauseous, but otherwise it was spectacular.
One minor part that irked me, Bourne’s in a hijacked car speeding backwards in a parking garage and intentionally drives off one level onto another in a reckless Die Hard-esque suicide maneuver than anything I’ve seen Bourne do in the past 2 films. There are maybe two other parts in the film like that, but I am being a bit picky because the movie really was that good.
I’ve read about Matt Damon saying he’s too old to do another Bourne movie – he’s 36 -but since Ultimatum has cleared its opening weekend with the biggest August opening ever at $70+ million, I think its safe to say, just like Jason Bourne himself, no matter what you hear, he’s too good to be dead.
If you’ve seen the first two films, Ultimatum is a theater MUST SEE.