The Bourne Ultimatum
Aug. 4th, 2007 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleShort, spoiler-free version: Yes, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
allegram, you should go see it.
Longer, spoiler-filled version: This movie is awesome. Excellent fight scenes, good suspense (although I never really thought Jason or Nicky was going to die), good intrigue, good wrap-up (mostly) to the series.
I liked the way the movie incorporated the ending of the second movie. I just watched the first two (to gear up for this one), so I was reading the IMDb trivia. Apparently, the plan was to end the second one with his conversation with the Neski girl in Moscow, but audiences thought it was too bleak, so they tacked on his call to Pamela Landy. This movie picks up within a few hours of his talk with the girl in Moscow, incorporates the call to Pamela as a plot point, and ends sometime after that.
And now, what I really liked: Nicky helps Jason of her own volition. Oh, yes. They sit across from each other in a diner with coffee cups, and he asks her, "Why are you helping me?" and she says, "It was hard for me sometimes. With you." And then a long pause while they look at each other (and the camera shows us Nicky over Jason's shoulder and then Jason over Nicky's and back) and then she asks, "You really don't remember anything?" Um, background, yes, please? Then she uses her computer access to the CIA system to get information and send a message to an operative who's then supposed to take them out. Yeah. If you've read "900 Miles to Stockholm," you'll understand why I loved this.
Helping him means she has to go on the run, of course, and in a room in Tangiers she dyes her hair black and cuts it, and it very closely, if not exactly, mirrors Marie doing the same thing in the first movie.
The movie ends with Nicky watching news coverage that says no one knows if Jason is alive or not, and smiling.
I'll be over here in happyland hoping for a fourth movie to wrap Nicky and Jason up together, or, at the very least, plotting something like that myself.
allegram, you should go see it.Longer, spoiler-filled version: This movie is awesome. Excellent fight scenes, good suspense (although I never really thought Jason or Nicky was going to die), good intrigue, good wrap-up (mostly) to the series.
I liked the way the movie incorporated the ending of the second movie. I just watched the first two (to gear up for this one), so I was reading the IMDb trivia. Apparently, the plan was to end the second one with his conversation with the Neski girl in Moscow, but audiences thought it was too bleak, so they tacked on his call to Pamela Landy. This movie picks up within a few hours of his talk with the girl in Moscow, incorporates the call to Pamela as a plot point, and ends sometime after that.
And now, what I really liked: Nicky helps Jason of her own volition. Oh, yes. They sit across from each other in a diner with coffee cups, and he asks her, "Why are you helping me?" and she says, "It was hard for me sometimes. With you." And then a long pause while they look at each other (and the camera shows us Nicky over Jason's shoulder and then Jason over Nicky's and back) and then she asks, "You really don't remember anything?" Um, background, yes, please? Then she uses her computer access to the CIA system to get information and send a message to an operative who's then supposed to take them out. Yeah. If you've read "900 Miles to Stockholm," you'll understand why I loved this.
Helping him means she has to go on the run, of course, and in a room in Tangiers she dyes her hair black and cuts it, and it very closely, if not exactly, mirrors Marie doing the same thing in the first movie.
The movie ends with Nicky watching news coverage that says no one knows if Jason is alive or not, and smiling.
I'll be over here in happyland hoping for a fourth movie to wrap Nicky and Jason up together, or, at the very least, plotting something like that myself.