Bourne Ultimatum

Bourne Ultimatum

There's a saying which goes, “you have to save the best for last.” This could be applicable in any way people wanted. In my case, I think this is applicable in movies, especially in movie trilogies. A case and point would be the Bourne Trilogy. Basing on gross figures of the box office, the latest of the Bourne trilogy is the choice of the people as the best among the three movies. Indeed, Bourne Ultimatum made the exit of the Bourne character from the theaters a truly remarkable one.

The Bourne Trilogy kicked off in 2002 with Bourne Identity. Two years after (2004) it was followed by Bourne Supremacy. Then the last in the trilogy series – Bourne Ultimatum – was recently released this year (2007).

Watching the third and last of the trilogy series, the advantage goes to those who have watched the first two Bourne movies since all these three are constantly connected with each other. The actors who played important characters also remain the same. These are Matt Damon as Jason Bourne or Captain David Webb, Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons, Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, and David Strathairn as Noah Vosen to mention a few.

The start of Bourne Ultimatum is the ending of Bourne Supremacy, where David Bourne was able to elude the arrests of the Russian police. Now in France, Bourne resurfaced to tell Marie's brother of hear death. Soon after, he was headed to England to meet one journalist by the name of Simon Ross. The problem with this meeting is that the CIA was able to detect when the word “Blackbriar” was mentioned. The reason being is that this is the codename for the supposed assassination of Jason Bourne.

Once again, Bourne was able to escape from the hands of the CIA and its hired assassins with the purpose of solely targeting former agent David Webb aka. Jason Bourne. Still in search for his identity, Bourne was able to contact Nicky. He was given the idea to go to the Treadstone Facility to have some psychological tests. He was finally captured by the antagonists in the facility. Still he got away with it by jumping in the river.

Due to the incident at the facility, the “Blackbriar” mission was exposed and it was investigated by the government. The senate investigated the matter. It was never known if Jason Bourne was really alive after he jumped from the East River. Only it was shown in a flashback that he walked away from the river after some motionless moments.