The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Ah yes, I'm here to kick it to you mainstream style. Nothing like some good ol' fashion popcorn eating movies. I dunno if anyone has reviewed this yet on the site, but I've fallen off the face of the earth for a while and I'm playing catch up. And besides, if someone already reviewed it, this can open up a terse discourse about it. Sorta like the McLaughlin group, but for movies.

Anyway, this third installment of the series based on the novels by Robert Ludlum (you like that? Sure sounded professional as hell, am I right?) picks up right from the end of the second film. If you didn't see the second one, stop reading and watch it. Jason Bourne globetrotting, trying to figure out his past, is once again being hunted by the US government. This time the search is headed by Whistler from Sneakers. He's one trigger-happy SOB that wants Bourne on a platter.

Needless to say, Bourne does what he does best and kicks some ass without taking names, even though he really wants people's names. Whatever. In any case, I was really pleased to see Bourne be challenged by some of his pursuers. There's one great fight scene that's pretty awesome, one in which lesser men would have been concussed on numerous occasions, but not Bourne. Needless to say, there are other good fight scenes that seem realistically sound with respect to technique.

Julia Stiles in this movie continues to perplex me. It's like she's hot in a weird way, but not really hot cuz there's something just not right about her and I just can't place it. Anyway, she looked agreeable in this movie, so the story could have done more with her but it didn't.

But back to the movie as a whole. It was good and I recommend it. The only thing that was kind of annoying was the shakey camera. I know it's supposed to add to the tension and such, but my god, can you use a tripod a little bit more please? Zero watch checks and I was going on 3 hours of sleep watching this.