directed by: Paul Greengrass
written by: Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi
starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen
seen: 29th January, 2008, comment updated 24th March, 2018
With each new viewing the film becomes less and less engaging. A few more rounds and I guess I'll think it's a stupid flick. (And I feel the need to add that it's simply depressing that the storyline of "the Ultimatum" is just a mosaic of essential plot points from both previous films and doesn't bring almost anything new to the mix. The core example of this is when Bourne causes a car crash to get rid of "the terminator" chasing him, confronts him at gunpoint and then decides to spare him in order to be more human himself - that's exactly the same freaking thing that happened in "the Supremacy", except that Karl Urban is replaced by Edgar Ramirez in the part of the pretty psycho-killer. That's pure impertinence to recycle a scene like this, to use old emotions instead of evoking new ones. As far as screenwriting goes, this is unforgivable.)
But because of the hearbreaking stare of Daniel Brühl (about whom I have briefly forgotten that he even shows up in this film because I'm always admiring the plants in his film appartment, mainly the ficus by the window and the bonsai at the door) I have decided to list some positives as well and to not end my review on such an angry note. The scene with the journalist at the London train station is truly spectacular and probably my favourite sequence of the whole trilogy. And I guess it's kind of cute how he sends the entire agency out for a walk in New York. But the final act is so unsatisfying in throwing everything away and starting to target irrelevant emotions that I always end up losing interest. And even the final Moby beings to sound a bit worn out.
-"Get some rest, Pam. You look tired."
