THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

2008 Best Film Editing
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing



Action/adventure

BACKGROUND
Blackbriar rather than Treadstone is now the code name of the clandestine secret black-ops branch of the CIA that violates laws both in the United States and abroad. If exposed by a rogue agent (Jason Bourne) there would be nasty repercussions. Having lost his memory Bourne has only one objective initially: to find out who he really was and how he got to be the way he is.

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Matt Damon: CIA trained assassin Jason Bourne
Scott Glenn: CIA Director Ezra Kramer
David Strathairn: CIA Station Chief Noah Vosen tasked with eliminating Bourne
Paddy Considine: Simon Ross, an investigative reporter for The Guardian
Joan Allen: CIA internal investigator Pamela Landy
Julia Stiles: CIA secretary in Madrid Nicky Parsons

REVIEW
Your senses of hearing and sight are absolutely assaulted with lots of sound (music, screeching tires, gun shots, yelling, car crashes, breaking glass etc) and out of focus, blurry images coupled with lighting-crisp editing that are characteristic of the Bourne series. So too have the sensational car chases the improbable leaps and realistic hand-to-hand fighting.

As usual Damon plays the major role in a quiet unassuming manner with Bourne making use of his intellect to outsmart anyone who is out to get him.

It’s riveting stuff.

CLASSIFICATION
for violence and intense sequences of action.

FOR NITPICKERS ONLY
Bourne says that Paris to Tangier, Morocco “is only about 300 miles.” In fact, these cities are more than a 1,000 miles apart.

P.S.
In CIA jargon “assets” are people on the agency payroll who act as spies and/ carry out nefarious assignments.