The Bourne Ultimatum is a fun review of ours if only because we both come across as drunk, although we highly doubt that was actually the case.
The film itself is a good ending to the trilogy (at least until the Jeremy Renner version hits theaters later this Summer). Ultimatum has better action sequences, a tighter plot, prettier locations and a more fitting title than Supremacy, but wasn’t quite as good as Identity, at least according to Bret.
Admit it, it’s closer than you thought.
The review, however, tackles the really important questions, like “better looking, Albert Finney or Julia Stiles?” or “is it safe for Bret to yawn while Erin is talking?”
Also, stick around for Erin’s all-out attack on Russia. If Putin sees this, we may be at the dawn of a new Cold War.
The Bourne Ultimatum receives 4 Stars from Erin and 4 Stars from Bret as well.
When he asks for a security deposit, just hand it over; it’s for the best.
When last we left Jason Bourne, he had hung up his ninja skills to retreat to a peaceful life of operating a scooter rental service in a tropical paradise with a lady that kind of looks like a guy.
His story continues in The Bourne Supremacy, the second installment of the Bourne series which — SPOILER ALERT — involves some kicking.
The Bourne Supremacy, of course, narrowly beating out other potential nonsensical titles like:
The Bourne Absorbency(too dry)
The Bourne Complacency (too meh)
The Bourne Infancy (too pre-quelly)
The Bourne Meteorology (too weathery)
The Bourne Intimacy (too creepy)
The Bourne Corpulency (too fat)
The Bourne Endocrinology (too medical)
The Bourne Insolvency (too sad)
The Bourne Oceanography (too wet)
The Bourne Psuedopregnancy (too weird)
The Bourne Supersecrecy (too perfect)
The Bourne Immunodeficiency (too ill)
The crazy part? That’s a video, they are just moving too fast for the human eye to perceive it.
The movie was not as good, in our opinions, as its predecessor, but if you like watching fight scenes that move so fast you’ll have no idea who was hitting whom, this is the movie for you. Still a high-quality flick which received 3 Stars from Erin and 3.5 Stars from Bret.
Seen here, incapable of fighting his way out of a wet paper bag.
Years from now, we’ll tell our kids and our grandkids that there was a time when Matt Damon did not appear capable of breaking another man’s neck with his bare hands. All that changed with the amnesiac assassin flick, The Bourne Identity.
Without trampling too much on our video review above, you can make a sufficient case that the Bourne series were some of the most important films of the last 15 years.
Laugh all you want, but without the Bourne series, do we have Casino Royale, a very realistic (at least in film terms) and enjoyable Bond movie? Without them do we have Batman Begins and the Nolan Batman trilogy?
Without Damon being cast as Bourne, does an excellent actor like Liam Neeson (Taken, Unknown, The Grey, etc.) get a chance to be an action hero with a brain? Does Robert Downey, Jr. get to be Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes?
“Darker! Grittier!”
Like it or not, The Bourne Identity introduced words like “gritty” and “dark” into our film lexicon. It’s a bad thing because now EVERYTHING has to be “dark” and “gritty,” but it’s a good thing because some things SHOULD be “dark” and “gritty.”
Along those same lines, The Bourne Identity ushered in an era of films where realism is considered a virtue; where not every car bursts into flames at the slightest touch; and where, even in a film where a man dresses as a bat to fight crime, the makers of the film feel compelled to justify why he does that and how it is possible, if improbable.
It also demonstrated that an action hero doesn’t need to be all brawn and no brains, a fairly amazing revelation and one that actors like Neeson and Downey, Jr. — as well as the audiences watching them — should be grateful for.
In the end, the film industry is better for this movie and, in part for that, Erin gives it 3.5 Stars and Bret gives it 4.25 Stars.
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