Vastly overrated. Just a good actioner, nothing more

Rating: 6/10 (21 August 2007)

An average user rating of way above 8, pushing The Bourne Ultimatum into the top-250? That is, of course, ludicrous. Just you wait until the guys at IMDb finds the time to give this movie a more weighted average. It's nowhere near good enough to be anywhere near the top-250.
It's an exciting action-movie with a half-way coherent plot, which is rare enough in itself. But it's far from perfect. The assassins Bourne runs from are faceless and therefore not particularly scary or threatening.
The basic plot about Blackbriar is not fleshed out enough; not explained well enough; we don't hear how it came about in the first place. Was it illegal or government-authorized? The plot reminded way too much of the second movie's plot; culminating in the exact same thing, with a confrontation with a bad guy played by an elderly British actor. Finney even looked almost exactly like Cox, sans the beard. Not what I would call originality, exactly.
Also, we don't hear about what Nicky's past with Bourne consisted in, which is annoying seeing as this is probably the last instalment of a trilogy.
Many shortcomings, but pretty exciting action.
6 out of 10.