Thursday, August 16, 2007

Ultimate Ultimatum

My argument is not with you.

After hearing this sentence spoken in Russian, I knew I'm up for something beyond cool. He's back. Jason Bourne.

We all know what he's up to. While he can be some sort of CIA's James Bond, he's not out to save the world. He just wants to know who he was and who trained him to be an assassin.

Minus my bout of sudden dizziness while watching Bourne Ultimatum in Greenbelt 1 as my beau held my right hand, the third installation of Bourne films is just great.

In Bourne Identity, we saw him being chased, mysteriously hunted and he's got amnesia. Supremacy, made us buckle up our seats tight and we saw Marie (Bourne's girlfriend) die and he's getting closer to answer his long time bout - Who am I? And now in Ultimatum, everything is just better. And the script was enticing. It makes you think hard and as you try to also decipher as if you're answering for Bourne. And he found the answer.

Ultimatum starts where Supremacy ends. And here we realized that Treadstone is just a part of a larger CIA division coined as Black Briar. As expected, we were treated with endless chasing and CIA used every human and technology resource possible to trace him. Almost surprisingly, we found two familiar characters that are on Bourne's side - Pamela Landy (she led the charge against Bourne in Supremacy and is now seeing things in a different light - Bourne is a victim) and Nicky Parsons (yes, they met again!).

Of all the endless chasing, hand-to-hand combat, surveillance technology, I fell in love with all the excitement and uncertainty watching Jason Bourne's equivalent mental soundness with CIA. While Jason Bourne may not be that well equipped compared to all the other assassins we can name but what made him stand out is his natural aptitude to think so fast than anyone else. He's one hot, clever b*stard, you know!

Matt Damon, at least to me, made this character his own. You know like, when I'm old and cannot remember his name anymore - I'll probably say, "you know, that guy in all the Bourne films" or "you know, Jason Bourne".

Just great. Enough said.