Sucks hard.

Rating: 3/10 (8 December 2008)

While I'm a great fan of the first two Bourne installments, this one clearly marks the demise of what should have been a duology kept intact. As the story has basically been closed with "Supremacy", where Bourne finally got into the clear about his Treadstone past and Neski assassination, the production team had to try hard and find something they still could tag onto and continue a finished story. Clearly, to squeeze some more bucks out of a financially successful franchise.
So we now gotta learn that there's been still *another* covert project behind Treadstone, called Blackbriar, and basically the same story we just went through starts over again. I.e. corrupt agent executives declaring Bourne to be a threat and chasing him in an eventually vain attempt to cover up their miserable deeds. Seen before? Yes.
And as the plot thins out, this movie naturally got to be more "action packed", where action basically means cars crashing, stuff exploding and stunt men performing various physical actions. So if you're happy with watching Bourne limping around after having crashed yet another car or jumped from yet another building, this movie could still be for you. Just make sure you leave both, brain and taste, at home though.
The really sad point about this is that those greedy losers ruin the first two Bourne's for us as well, because at least I just can't watch them with the same eyes as before. They've thoroughly been spoiled now, yet I'm confident the creators couldn't care less.
Incidentally, anybody hoping for an improvement on camera work and editing will be disappointed. It's the same crap as before. I guess it's their way of disguising bad planning and lousy choreography, by just tearing those miserable, shaky shots still further apart in the editing room and glue them together in cut fests which leave little to recognize for the viewer.
I hear they plan yet another sequel to drag this further through the mud. I can only hope they'll get to answer for this in final judgment, because too many sheep will go run and see it anyway, thus preventing the proper box office response. As said, the first two installments were just too good.