the best Bourne by far...but...

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2007)

The third in the Bourne Quadrology is as exciting as the first two. The plot opens up like an onion, layer after layer, after dangerous layer. Matt Damon excels as Jason Bourne. As all American films, it shows one man to be a super genius and the system that is trying to bring him down as a bunch of idiots walking the streets on a Saturday market.
The film has some fantastic action scenes and he camera-work has been intended to make you feel as if the action is happening right in front of your face. The fight scenes will give you a feel that u r huddled in a corner while the action is going on all around you. Full marks to cinematography. Same thing goes to chase scenes in NYC and Tangier. Music is equal to the visuals and enhances the look and feel of the film, greatly. For me, the best scenes, in terms of cinematography and picturisation are the ones shot in London's Waterloo station and the action scenes shot in Tangier.
It has a lot of moments, where Jason Bourne's intelligence and presence of mind seems to outwit the CIA operatives, out to get him. It also gives a superficial scan of CIA psyche-breaking procedures, which were mainly used in interrogations, a subject brilliantly explained in the book "A Question of Torture" by Alfred W McCoy. Does Jason Bourne die, when he goes to terminate the CIA program that created him? Go watch it...and go with an open mind...coz the unexpected will hit you again...
cheers Raam