A Movie With Severe Attention-Deficit Disorder.

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2007)

The Bourne Ultimatum is a series of non-stop action sequences uninterrupted by anything resembling serious thought. Like going to a car dealership and being subjected to the non-stop prattle of an aggressive salesman, the loud, throbbing music and the many scenes filmed with a hand-held, jiggly camera are designed to dazzle the viewer without providing any real information at all. After the first two Bourne films, this one is a massive, action-filled, letdown.
If you swallow the movie's premise, the CIA/NSA types have total control over all surveillance cameras anywhere on Earth, and the hero knows all passwords, telephone numbers, and codes to every telecommunications device every made. This is the modern equivalent of the old cowboy movies in which they could fire hundreds of bullets from their six-shooters and never have to stop and reload. Oops, there I go thinking again.
Sure, I did find parts of the film entertaining, but more of it was like a cartoon with Wiley Coyote chasing the Roadrunner. I've had Chinese dinners with more substance than this movie.