Ultimate Bourne

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Paul Greengrass

Unfortunately, this is the last, the ultimate Bourne movie that, at this point, anyway, Matt Damon plans to make. According to an interview with Rebecca Murray at About.com, Damon is quoted as basically saying that in this movie, Bourne finally figures out his identity, so what would they do in a fourth movie: “Actually, I was talking to a journalist yesterday who suggested that we could do [a] fourth one about Bourne losing his keys. And we could do for the entire movie, ‘Where are my keys?’ And that kind of illustrates how out of story we are at this point in terms of what was good about these first three films.”

In fact, Ultimatum is very loosely based on Ludlum’s third book because that one took place during the Cold War. The movie is more plot-based than the first two, although Greengrass does not skimp on the action. What I particularly liked is the intertextuality he uses by filling in the last scenes in Supremacy in the beginning of Ultimatum rather than using flashbacks. (I’m a sucker for intertextuality!) Definitely a must-see.

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