I’m no fan of action movies, choosing slapstick over this genre. But when best friend insisted that I should make an exception against my rule, I decided to relent. After all, what did I have to lose? If nothing else, it was bound to be an adrenaline-pumping, 120-minuute, tightly-paced flick. So I acquiesced.
And boy! Was I glad that I did go!!
Initially I was pretty skeptical about watching the third part of an action trilogy, without having watched the first two. Five minutes into the movie – and my skepticism had all flown out of the theater window. The movie is self-explanatory, and leaves you wishing you could heap buckets of acclamation on the worthy director.
The Bourne Ultimatum is a mind-blowing flick – one that leaves you with an incredible Oh-My-God-this-was-one-amazing-movie experience, when you walk out after the screening. Right from the beginning, you are hooked – from Jason Bourne’s (Matt Damon) death-defying escape from the Moscow police, right to the very end, which for obvious reasons I would refrain from recounting here - after all Ido fear that you might not move your sedentary rears to watch it.
Bourne, on an episode to unravel the hush-hush CIA black op called Blackbriar, does not have many leads to assist him. Save a London journalist Simon Ross (Paddy Considine), who has stumbled upon the classified operation. Ross makes his way through a stringent camera surveillance system, unerringly steered by an ingenious Bourne, until he (Ross) panics, and is shot by a hired gun.
The movie is shot at a gritty pace, amidst different locales worldwide. Never once does the able direction falter.A steely Pam Landy (Joan Allen), excels in her role as the upright CIA Deputy Director. Noah Vosen, as the smug, wily head of Operation Blackbriar is also laudable.
One of the best scenes in the movie is when Bourne, after leading the CIA officials on a blind goose chase, calls Vosen on his phone, querying about his whereabouts. When Vosen chooses a white lie, saying he is in his office, Bourne expresses disbelief, remarking if that had indeed been the case, the conversation between the two would have been in the flesh, rather than a telephonic one. While Vosen had been on the lookout for Bourne, an obvious red-herring, he (Bourne) had broken into his office, made away with the top secret Blackbriar documents, and deposited them with Landy. A visibly chasetened / beaten / frenzied Vosen is shown next upfront...
Words wouldn’t do justice to this Paul Greengrass movie.
Miss it at your own risk.
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