See this film or die! (now that's an ultimatum...)

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2007)

The Bourne movies always make me wonder why so many movies are so poor. They always seem to be so effortlessly excellent, to deliver in all aspects of what they do, to be cool, thrilling, action-packed and exciting, even when they get to the threequel, What is it about Jason Bourne or Matt Damon that makes these films so good? No idea. They aren't even really based on the books, so you cannot look at the source material. Regardless of the cause, the result is a franchise that shows Ethan Hunt and James Bond up from almost any angle and is a contender for one of the strongest trilogies committed to film. Ultimatum is excellent in its own right (the Waterloo sequence is a classic of tension and cool) and a fitting end (if it is the end) to the series.