just about worth the ticket price

Rating: 6/10 (20 August 2007)

The first test a movie has to survive for me is whether, after having seen any movie I feel I got my money's worth. The Bourne Ultimatum just about survived that test. Yes, its an action movie with a lot of crash bang wallop, but some chase scenes dragged out for far too long. The story is simply not advanced by seeing yet another jump from one building into the next, by dodging another spray of machine gun fire - while these scenes were playing I found myself checking the position of the loudspeakers in the theatre and the fabric of the seat in front of me... in other words, I was bored and the movie could certainly do with some severe cutting... but then maybe there wouldn't be enough story left to fill 90 minutes. However, at least at the end of the movie we know a lot more about Jason. The other test for a movie is whether the wife liked it and here it failed too.. essentially no romance, nothing. OK, the movie survived the ticket price check but only because I did not buy any goodies in the theatre but sneaked them in in my pockets...