The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Do government secrets really get spoken of at the local coffee shop? Isn't that worse than at a chain coffee shop? How many spies have spilled the beans at Denny's?That's a huge package for a prepaid phone.Both sides f-n with Pam.Convenient broken curb.He's always busting out of a windshield.A little Bond in the water finale.

When Bourne I was released, there was no Facebook an Twitter. With Bourne III, Facebook became a world presence, and Twitter was one year old believe it or not, and the junior senator from Illinois was about to boldly declare his nomination to be the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential election. Still, the CIA could still track Bourne without Twitter.The London Waterloo scenes are impressively shot, and I wondered how it was done. You can read about it in The Independent article "Paul Greengrass admits tricking commuters during Bourne Ultimatum filming". During the filming I saw some bystanders pointing to Bourne. It's Matt Damon!!!Also impressive were the scenes in New York City. THe Big Apple comes alive with Jason Bourne. One poignant scene was where Julia Stiles' Nicky Parsons has a hairdo while on the run, that painfully reminds Bourne of his murdered German girlfriend (Franka Potente), who appears in a flashback in this movie.Who would have thought that Bourne would return a decade later in Jason Bourne?

The Jason Bourne films with Matt Damon in them succeed where the current James Bond films fail. While Daniel Craig's sociopath Bond wallows in self loathing and psychopathy, the emotional sub plot in the Jason Bourne films are direct, focused and sensible.It makes sense for a man that has lost his memory to desperately try and figure out who he is, even without highly trained assassins dogging his every move. Throughout the series, he attempts to make amends for his nefarious espionage past and in doing so, blazes a path toward redemption. Having read two of the originals books this series is based upon, I can say that the Jason Bourne character is actually better fleshed out in the films and no doubt intellectual actor Matt Damon had a lot to do with that. This is an excellent action espionage series of films.

A movie that I can watch dozens of times and still experience the same level of suspense, excitement and overall entertainment is what earns this 10-star rating for me. It gets me every time and does an excellent job with telling so much of the story through facial expressions and no words. Love the fast pace, the action and the attention to detail.