A non-stop, high speed action-fest

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 2007)

Action movies don't do much for me, they bore me and I find most of them way too stupid to believe. However, this movie had saying "Wow" at the end. Never have I seen an action movie that is so fast paced, relentless and believable. The acting from everyone was great (especially Matt Damon as Jason Bourne), the fight scenes were realistic and the direction from Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) was brilliant.
Following straight from the events of The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne is still trying to find out who he is while evading assassins sent from the CIA as well as a government agent hell-bent on killing Bourne.
As said before, The Bourne Ultimatum is a non-stop thrill ride from start to finish and is a very satisfying conclusion to an awesome trilogy. The main issue I had with the movie was the camera-work. The whole movie was just shaky and by the halfway mark it was getting annoying and it was a really distracting thing. I think Greengrass needs to steady up with the camera and only use the "shaky-cam" technique during fight scenes and not throughout the whole movie.
Aside from that The Bourne Ultimatum is an amazing action movie and one of the best this year.
4/5