Could have been much better

Rating: 7/10 (11 August 2007)

I have to start by agreeing with another person's comment: the casting of Matt Damon was genius and is probably the reason people enjoy these movies as much as they do. This movie started out very well and it takes some skill to start a movie out well. Very few people can achieve a good start just think about the Bourne Supremacy; I don't think that movie began well. But after the great beginning The Bourne Ultimatum deteriorates into the same old, same old, CIA, NSA bad guys against the rogue covert ops hero. Boring! Too bad they didn't use more intelligence when they wrote the script. Sure car chases and fight scenes are nice, if you're a 17-25 year old male, but come on the rest of us want to see a little more than the camera swinging around as someone gets killed. They had some great opportunities to do something really smart but they failed to do it. And let me say one more thing, the character Marie was used very well in the first movie and even Pam Landy (well played by Joan Allen) in the second, but this time both female roles (Niki and Landy)were wasted. Come on women might not need to fight but we can certainly use our brains. I got so tired of the closeups of Niki doing and saying absolutely nothing. And poor Pam Landy though heroic we never get to see how she thinks. Too bad 7/10