Favourite Bourne film in the trilogy - a shipper's perspective

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2015)

'The Bourne Ultimatum'. Hands down Best. Film. Of. The. Summer. Quite possibly Best Film of 2007. POTC and HP pale in comparison as does Oceans 13 . I haven't seen Shrek 3 but given my apathetic nature towards Shrek then I'm pretty sure The Bourne Ultimatum is better than that. Of course, it's probably unfair to be comparing any of these films since they're all of different genres and all aim to give the audience a different kind of viewing pleasure but if I was going to pick a best film award then I'd have to deal with all those things and totally give it to 'The Bourne Ultimatum'. I mean, as a girl, I don't get all giddy over action scenes or fight scenes but OMG they were amazing. Plus you throw it come awesome acting, a great soundtrack, amazing locations, hints at shippy stuff and a whole lot of buildup and tension and you get a film which has totally catapulted itself into my Top 5 Favourite Movies Of All Time. Get the picture? I love it.
So let's obsess shall we? Waterloo Station <- I know that station and the Southbank like the back of my hand and I tend to squee over unimportant things like this in life, I mean I bought stuff from that kiosk that they run into and the whole WH Smiths and Man I would have killed to have been there whilst they were filming. Anyway, this was a brilliant sequence. It must have been impossible to shoot there with all those people but they nailed it.
When the NYPD skids along the barrier thing near the end? I thought that was an amazing action bit. That's a really random thing but I was watching it and it just occurred to me how cool that looked.
ANYWAY, obviously what I want to ramble on about is Nicky/Jason. And Julia Stiles. I mean they didn't have to do that .... they could have just had Nicky has a friend who wants to help Jason because she's seen what he's been through and she hates what the program's done to people etc. but that one line, that ONE line was all I needed. I mean I liked Marie but she was just kind of there and when she got shot I was just like 'Oh poor Jason, Marie's dead' but then with Nicky you have all the angst, the history, the mountains of unexplored character depth. I mean how freaking hard must this whole thing have been on her: seeing Jason get tortured during training, seeing him with Marie, having him point a gun at her head several times and nearly killing her and then fully have to process the knowledge that he doesn't remember anything. ....
And the scriptwriting! Amazing! Jason/Nicky just have that one line and then everything else Julia Stiles plays out brilliantly in just looks - in the cafe, on the ferry, after Bourne's killed the asset, in the room in the mirror, touching his hand, listening to him tell her to go, seeing him look at her as she cuts her hair, the scene at the coach station where it's like she really wants to say something or hug him but she forces herself not to, the look she give him when he tells her it gets easier ...... I mean WOW. One line and then she never speaks again (apart from technical stuff). Sometimes you don't need any words.