Lacks every aspect that makes a good movie

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2018)

The Bourne Ultimatum is a movie with a generic action movie plot.
I am not the biggest fan of pure action movies but I can enjoy some fun explosions.
I will (as respectful as possible) try to explain why The Bourne Ultimatum even fails to be that. I really tried not to be sarcastic but it didn't work at all times...
Also I do not throw around 1-star ratings easily.
I seriously could not find a single good aspect about this movie.
Here is why:
1) Plot
The generic plot that was made up for this movie only makes up about 5% of the movie, the rest is chase scenes. This is not exaggerated. It is easy to forget why Jason Bourne is chased in the first place because the plot is just sprinkled here and there to justify 2 hours of chasing.
And then there is this role of the heroic woman that seems weirdly forced maybe to put a strong woman into the movie.
Last there is the professional killer who doesn't shoot Bourne because he makes him question why he should kill him. This seems like a typical deus ex machina since this is not at all justified by the plot.
Also the 2 last scenes where totally unneccessary, even made it worse. It seemed like this was decided in the editing phase: A cut of one actress with a TV and some edited in news show, then some footage of Bourne in the water when he swam back to the surface and the camera was still running.
2) Believability/VFX
Despite the plot weaknesses the movie could have been fun if the chase scenes and visual effects would have been believable or visually pleasing.
Most of the stunts where over the top, not action movie over the top but in a ridiculous way. This were several certain deaths he survived.
Everything from explosions to sparks looked incredibly fake when they could easily have used real ones. And CGI was also way better at the time.
Also the audience is supposed to believe that the protagonist shakes off local policemen through back alleys in a foreign city. It is as if he was born and raised there.
3) Cinematography
-This can still be used for killing some time so how do we make it completely unwatchable?- must have been what someone said while making this movie.
The cinematographer did it! Every single scene, and this is not exaggerated either, is shaky.
When I say shaky I do not mean simply hand held. I mean that every close up, every computer screen, every little detail and of course every action scene is filmed as if the cinematographer filmed with parkinsons on an old mobile phone.
I might be sensitive but I had to look away a few times because I got a headache from the blurry images.
4) Editing/SFX
Better be safe that noone is able to enjoy the movie: The whole movie is cut as if the editor went cold turkey in the middle of cutting.
Most scenes only last a few frames and they begin and end with a larger camera motion almost every time.
This suits the cinematography well which is not a good thing.
Sound effects are often off timing and sound cheesy/cartoonish.