The Bourne Ultimatum

[DarthSydodyas]

I went to see this last nite and it is just as excellent as the other two. Can't wait for the box-set.

The action was superb with some brilliant chase sequences on foot and in a car. About the only irritating thing I could find with the film was the flashbacks, but even those were justifiable....

 

[Ms T]

I saw it a couple of days ago and enjoyed it, but found the incredibly fast cutting and editing a bit overdone. It made what should have been a great car chase somewhat incomprehensible. Good fun though.

 

[marty21]

saw it this afternoon - brilliant just action piled on action piled on action piled on action, with some more action on top, and extra action

 

[HackneyE9]

saw it this afternoon - brilliant just action piled on action piled on action piled on action, with some more action on top, and extra action

And the killer USp is that that action is....at Waterloo Station! And all across Europe rather than bloody LA or New York.

 

[girasol]

Just back from watching it... Excellent!!! Although the hand held thing made me feel a bit dizzy!

Loved being in so many different cities, they were superb shots of the cities!!!

And finally, at the end, interesting analogy about being a soldier

And yes, no more, no more films should be done, 3 is just perfect.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Just back from watching it... Excellent!!! Although the hand held thing made me feel a bit dizzy!

Loved being in so many different cities, they were superb shots of the cities!!!

And finally, at the end, interesting analogy about being a soldier

And yes, no more, no more films should be done, 3 is just perfect.

Seeing it tomorrow, can't wait! Yeah please no more after this, makes for a perfect DVD boxset and a nice trilogy.

 

[Stigmata]

Best of the bunch I reckon, was especially hooked during the Waterloo sequence. Who'd have guessed Bourne was a Guardian reader?

 

[marty21]

Best of the bunch I reckon, was especially hooked during the Waterloo sequence. Who'd have guessed Bourne was a Guardian reader?

unsurprisingly, the guardian loved the film

 

[Stigmata]

No shit. I swear i saw Polly Toynbee in one scene.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Saw it today, thought it was good but not excellent, shame really...they used that shaky camera shit far too much. One thing I liked about the first two films was the close combat scenes and how they were portrayed. In this its all shake shake fucking shake...

 

[jayeola]

^^word! Sat in the front on Saturday Night in The Ritzy . Great, great movie but the car chases were spoiled IMHO by the use of that yukky shakey-cam[tm].

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Watched The Bourne Identity when I got home last night, still such an excellent film and much better for it due to the lack of shaky shaky camera. Don't get me wrong, I like that type of camera work just not on the majority of the scenes in a film!

 

[Iam]

Get Bourne Again!

Watched it last night.

Same old same old same old same old...

Still, at least he's alive and they can make another exciting sequel, eh?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Still, at least he's alive and they can make another exciting sequel, eh?

NOOO! I really don't want another film...would prefer they just left it as a trilogy.

 

[beeboo]

saw it this afternoon - brilliant just action piled on action piled on action piled on action, with some more action on top, and extra action

^^^what he said.

I loved all the shakey-cam stuff -it really feels like you're in the middle of what's happening - the blurry confusing-ness really adds to how realistic it feels.

I particularly loved the fight with the assassin in Morocco

Dear Santa, this year I would most of all like to have the Bourne boxset. Lots of love beeboo xxx

 

[zenie]

looking forward to this!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

If anyone has the Bourne supremacy can I borrow it?

I want to see it before I see the third one.

It's on one of the ITV digital channels this Tuesday.

 

[zenie]

It's on one of the ITV digital channels this Tuesday.

I dont have digital

BUT

A friend has said they'd lend it to me

 

[llantwit]

Saw it. Loved it.
Adrenalin, suspense, some great spy-novel skullduggery, a sense of 'realism' that you don't often get in spy flicks (in the grimy washed out colour scheme, the use of real locations, and the way it deals with the moral ambiguity of states killing people).
Good stuff. An action romp with brains, and heart, and plenty of brawn.

 

[llantwit]

My only criticisms:
Shaky camera work made me feel seasick again, and there was a lot of repetition of stuff which worked well in the last two (in terms of car chases and stuff like that). That said there was enough 'new' stuff to make it seem like they weren't milking it. They'd be stretching it to do another one, though.

 

[beeboo]

Usually it's really annoying when they use locations that you know in films because they tend to ignore reality in favour of squeezing in as many landmarks and photogenic settings as possible.

Whereas I loved the bit in Waterloo because it used the location in a very realistic way. Apart from the bits 'behind the scenes' which I couldn't vouch for, that whole scene was geographically/chronologically accurate.

 

[llantwit]

Usually it's really annoying when they use locations that you know in films because they tend to ignore reality in favour of squeezing in as many landmarks and photogenic settings as possible.

Whereas I loved the bit in Waterloo because it used the location in a very realistic way. Apart from the bits 'behind the scenes' which I couldn't vouch for, that whole scene was geographically/chronologically accurate.

And it was also accurate to 'spirit of Waterloo' as well. Didn't try and make it look all action-movie perfect, and was as far from glossy as it's possible to be. Just looked like a the battered old decaying shit-hole it is. Nineteenth century wonder of the industrial revolution overlaid with worn and tatty looking 20th century plastic shopfronts. Wouldn've been nice if they'd had that cool free brass band playing, though. I like them.

 

[beeboo]

And it was also accurate to 'spirit of Waterloo' as well. Didn't try and make it look all action-movie perfect, and was as far from glossy as it's possible to be. Just looked like a the battered old decaying shit-hole it is. Nineteenth century wonder of the industrial revolution overlaid with worn and tatty looking 20th century plastic shopfronts. Wouldn've been nice if they'd had that cool free brass band playing, though. I like them.

I was wondering whether it was all filmed amongst normal commuters and apparantly it was

http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=1170

I would have thought it would be impossible and that filming would be ruined by people gawping, but apparantly not. Londoners are very unfazed by this kind of thing though

 

[frogwoman]

yeah loved that scene

really good movie

 

[girasol]

The Bourne Identity was on ITV2 on Sunday night and last night.

The Bourne Supremacy is on tonight at 21:00 on ITV2.

 

[T & P]

The Bourne Supremacy is on tonight at 21:00 on ITV2.

And I stayed up like a fucking idiot until nearly 2 am watching it last night, before going to bed before the end

 

[girasol]

And I stayed up like a fucking idiot until nearly 2 am watching it last night, before going to bed before the end

Just remember that ITV2 will repeat a movie almost every night for who knows how long, next time... I remember not so long ago, every time I went past ITV2 Pretty Woman would be on for what seemed like a month.

 

[Janh]

And it was also accurate to 'spirit of Waterloo' as well. Didn't try and make it look all action-movie perfect, and was as far from glossy as it's possible to be. Just looked like a the battered old decaying shit-hole it is. Nineteenth century wonder of the industrial revolution overlaid with worn and tatty looking 20th century plastic shopfronts. Wouldn've been nice if they'd had that cool free brass band playing, though. I like them.

Agree with you, and they used my favourite cafe as the internet cafe where Bourne Googles the bank details: Scooterworks on Lower Marsh.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

This was a good film I got right into it, I was particularly amused to hear Chessington South being announced over the speaker in Waterloo station as Bourne is running around trying to avoid capture

 

[Badgers]

Saw the second one last night and enjoyed it a lot