Popcorn movie with a bad sense of deja-vu

Rating: 4/10 (12 June 2008)

For me "The Bourne Ultimatum" is definitively the weakest of the (generally overestimated) Bourne trilogy. It boils down to a rehash of Bourne 1 & 2: spies hunt Bourne, Bourne escapes and/or kills spies, Bourne escapes keystone cops, Bourne wins another car chase. The plot is virtually non-existent, and incidentally -granted that action movies do not strive for realism- I was a bit surprised how easily it was to get into a CIA building and steal top-secret files those (bad, obviously bad) CIA agents are willing to kill to protect.
On the plus side it's still entertaining, Joan Allen is still a great actress, and the Waterloo Station sequence is inspired.