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The Bourne Ultimatum

Theatrical poster
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Produced by Frank Marshall
Patrick Crowley
Paul L. Sandberg
Written by Screenplay:
Tony Gilroy
Scott Z. Burns
George Nolfi
Uncredited:
Tom Stoppard
Story:
Tony Gilroy
Novel:
Robert Ludlum
Starring Matt Damon
Julia Stiles
David Strathairn
Joan Allen
Music by John Powell
Cinematography Oliver Wood
Editing by Christopher Rouse
Studio Kennedy/Marshall
Ludlum Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) United States:
August 3, 2007
United Kingdom:
August 16, 2007
Running time 115 min
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $110 million
Gross revenue $442,911,572 (worldwide)
Preceded by The Bourne Supremacy
Followed by Bourne 4

The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 spy film directed by Paul Greengrass and loosely based[1] on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. The film is a sequel to The Bourne Supremacy (2004), also following The Bourne Identity (2002). Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former CIA Special Activities Division assassin and psychogenic amnesiac[2] Jason Bourne. The film continues the saga of Jason Bourne as he escapes from authorities in Moscow, and follows the character as he travels to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier, and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins after him. The film co-starred Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen. The script was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi, and an uncredited Tom Stoppard.[3] The producers were Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg, and Doug Liman, who directed the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007, in North America, where it grossed $69.3 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the highest August opening in the U.S.[4] and Matt Damon's highest grossing film with him as the lead role. Although all three films have been commercially successful and critically acclaimed, The Bourne Ultimatum is the only film in the trilogy to have been nominated for any Academy Awards, winning all three of its nominations for Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing at the 80th Academy Awards.

Contents

Plot

Shot and wounded by Russian assassin Kirill in the previous film, The Bourne Supremacy, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police and goes into hiding. Six weeks later, Bourne goes to Paris to meet Marie's brother to tell him that his sister is dead. When asked if he killed the person who killed Marie, Bourne replies that he did. Meanwhile, The Guardian correspondent Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) meets with a secret source in Turin to discuss Bourne, and Operation Treadstone, a secret CIA SOG assassination program, for which Bourne himself once worked. The CIA begins tracking Ross after ECHELON intercepts a cell phone call to his editor where he mentions "Operation Blackbriar".

Bourne travels to London and contacts Ross, after learning that the reporter has written several articles about him. He arranges a meeting with Ross at Waterloo Station , but quickly realizes that the CIA is also after Ross. Bourne helps Ross to evade CIA teams sent to capture him, but is spotted by a CCTV camera. Noah Vosen (David Strathairn), the man in charge of Blackbriar, recognizes Bourne and mistakenly believes he is the source of Ross's information. Vosen orders Blackbriar assassin Paz (Édgar Ramírez) to kill both Ross and Bourne. When Ross panics and ignores Bourne's instructions, he is spotted and killed instantly by Paz. After a quick search of Ross's body, Bourne takes the dead journalist's notebook, then pursues Paz, who escapes.

Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), who hunted Bourne six weeks earlier, is brought in, supposedly to help Vosen; in fact, a telephone conversation between Vosen and CIA Director Ezra Kramer (Scott Glenn) reveals that she is there to take the blame if things go wrong. Landy quickly figures out that Ross's source is Neal Daniels (Colin Stinton), CIA Station Chief in Madrid, who was formerly involved in Treadstone and is currently head of Blackbriar operations in Southern Europe and North Africa. Ross's notes lead Bourne to Daniels' office in Madrid. A photograph there triggers a flashback; the two men pictured were present at Bourne's induction into Treadstone. After he incapacitates a CIA team sent by Vosen to search the office, he comes face to face with Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles). She decides to help him, hinting later that she and Bourne had a prior relationship, which he doesn't remember. She tells Bourne that Daniels must be in Tangier. as he has wired $100,000 there.

In Tangier, Parsons learns that Blackbriar "asset" Desh Bouksani (Joey Ansah) has been tasked to kill Daniels. Bourne has her send an order to Desh to switch cell phones. This allows Bourne to follow Desh to Daniels. However, Parsons' online activity is detected, and Vosen orders Desh to also kill both Parsons and Bourne, despite Landy's strong objections. Bourne is unable to prevent Desh from killing Daniels with a car bomb, but manages to kill Desh in fierce hand-to-hand combat, before Desh can get to Parsons. Subsequently, Bourne sends Nicky into hiding.

When Bourne examines the contents of Daniels' charred briefcase, he finds the address of the Deep Cover CIA Bureau in New York City, from where Vosen directs Blackbriar. Vosen tells Landy that Blackbriar is an assassination element of the CIA's "black ops". In her office, Landy receives a phone call from Bourne (a repeat of the final scene of The Bourne Supremacy), which is secretly tapped by Vosen. Landy thanks Bourne for the tape he sent her which revealed the corrupt dealings of former Treadstone director Ward Abbott; she also tells him that his real name is David Webb, that he was born in Nixa, Missouri and his birth date is 4/15/71. Bourne tells Landy to "get some rest" because she "looks tired", which she and Vosen both understand to mean that Bourne is nearby watching her. Bourne then texts Landy a meeting place. Vosen leaves his office with a team to follow Landy. Meanwhile, Bourne breaks into Vosen's office and takes classified Blackbriar documents from the safe.

Vosen sends Paz after Bourne. After Bourne steals a police car, a car chase between him and Paz ensues, which ends in a huge crash. Bourne gets out of his car and points his gun at a dazed, defenseless Paz, but spares him his life. Bourne then goes to the Treadstone training facility at 415 East 71st Street, guided by the false birth date Landy gave him. Vosen also figures out Landy's code and warns Dr. Albert Hirsch (Albert Finney), who ran Treadstone's behavior modification program, that Bourne is coming. Hirsch says he will delay Bourne until Vosen's men show up.

Bourne and Landy meet at the entrance and Bourne gives Landy the Blackbriar files, before going inside to confront his past. Landy manages to fax the last page of the document just before Vosen locates her. She tells Vosen "You better get yourself a good lawyer", before leaving. Hirsch finds Bourne and helps him remember that he, Captain David Webb, volunteered to be the first participant in the program, that he "chose right here to become Jason Bourne." Bourne recalls the psychological duress he had to endure, such as having to unquestioningly kill a man, in that very room, to demonstrate his total commitment. He states that he is no longer Jason Bourne. He flees from Vosen's agents, up on to the roof. Paz gets to Bourne first, points his gun at him and asks why Bourne did not kill him when he had the chance. Bourne asks if Paz even knows why he is supposed to kill him and repeats the dying words of The Professor, a Treadstone assassin Bourne killed in The Bourne Identity; "Look at us...look at what they make you give." As Vosen's agents close in, Paz lowers his gun, allowing Bourne to run. However, Vosen himself appears and shoots at Bourne as he leaps off the roof into the East River.

Some time later, Parsons watches a television news broadcast about the exposure of Operation Blackbriar, the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, a criminal investigation of CIA Director Kramer, and a report on David Webb being shot and falling into the East River. Upon hearing that his body has not been found, Parsons smiles, knowing that Bourne somehow survived. Bourne is then shown swimming away after his fall.

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Jason Bourne/David Webb, former top operative for the black ops Operation Treadstone. Bourne takes on the task of finding out who made him what he was and why.
  • Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons, Bourne's former Treadstone contact in Paris. She is the only character besides Bourne and Marie Kreutz (who only appears in flashbacks in The Bourne Ultimatum) to appear in all three films.
  • David Strathairn as Noah Vosen, CIA Deputy Director in charge of the new Treadstone black ops upgrade called Operation Blackbriar, and the film's principal antagonist. He considers Bourne a threat to the operation and sets out to kill him.
  • Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, CIA Deputy Director and Task Force Chief, sent in to aid Vosen in tracking down Bourne. No-nonsense and tough as nails, she later proves to be Bourne's key ally.
  • Paddy Considine as Simon Ross, a reporter for London's The Guardian newspaper who gets Bourne's (and the CIA's) attention after writing a series of news articles containing classified information obtained from an unnamed source.
  • Albert Finney as Dr. Albert Hirsch
  • Scott Glenn as Ezra Kramer, Director of the CIA
  • Colin Stinton as Neal Daniels, CIA Station Chief in Madrid
  • Joey Ansah as Desh
  • Edgar Ramirez as Paz
  • Tom Gallop as Tom Cronin, Pamela Landy's assistant
  • Corey Johnson as Ray Wills, Vosen's deputy at Operation Blackbriar
  • Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz, Bourne's murdered girlfriend
  • Daniel Brühl as Martin Kreutz, Marie's half brother
  • Sam Dang as Raymond Sykes, field agent working for Vosen
  • Scott Adkins as Agent Kiley (credited as Scott Atkin)

Production

Scenes were filmed at London Waterloo station between October 2006 and April 2007

The Bourne Ultimatum was filmed at Pinewood Studios near London and in multiple locations around the world, including Tangier, London, Paris, Madrid (as itself and double for Turin), Berlin (as double for Moscow), New York City, and other locations in the U.S.[5]

References to previous films

Within the series

In the audio commentary for the current DVD release of The Bourne Ultimatum, director Paul Greengrass confirmed the following scenes were deliberate allusions to scenes from the previous installments of the Bourne film franchise.[6] They include:

  • The opening chase sequence of The Bourne Ultimatum is a continuation of the Russian police attempts to capture Bourne in Moscow near the end of The Bourne Supremacy and takes place before Bourne's apology to Neski's daughter in the previous film.
  • The scene where Bourne tells Martin of his girlfriend Marie's death is very similar to the ending of The Bourne Supremacy, when Bourne apologizes to the Neskis' daughter for killing her parents.
  • The scene where Bourne crashes through a window to attack Desh is similar to the scene where Castel attacked Bourne in The Bourne Identity.
  • After Bourne tells Nicky she will have to run, Nicky dyes and cuts her hair, similar to the scene in The Bourne Identity with Marie dyeing and cutting her hair.
  • During the car chase with Paz, Bourne's car is destroyed in a similar fashion to Kirill's in the climax of The Bourne Supremacy. The sequence also includes similar staging, such as Bourne walking up to Paz with gun in hand but deciding not to shoot.
  • In the rooftop climax, Bourne tells Paz, "Look at us. Look at what they make you give," reiterating the dying words of The Professor (Clive Owen) in The Bourne Identity.
  • The scene at the end of The Bourne Supremacy in which Bourne tells Landy she looks tired is in The Bourne Ultimatum.
  • The ending of The Bourne Ultimatum, with Bourne floating motionless in the East River, echoes the opening scene of The Bourne Identity, which utilizes a similar image. The music in both scenes is also repeated.
  • Operation Blackbriar is referred to at the very end of The Bourne Identity by Conklin's superior, Ward Abbott.
  • One of the "terminated" victims files taken from Vosen's safe by Bourne has a photo of Richard Chamberlain, the original Jason Bourne. It does not identify him by name and is labeled as "US Citizen Classified."
  • Bourne says "This is real" on two occasions: in The Bourne Supremacy when Marie questions whether the man he spotted in Goa was actually an assassin; and in The Bourne Ultimatum when trying to convince the journalist Ross that he is in danger at Waterloo Station. On both occasions, the character Bourne is speaking to is dead at the end of the scene.

Outside of the series

  • The scene featuring Bourne desperately trying to catch a glimpse of Paz in the London Underground after Ross is gunned down is, according to Greengrass, a "wink" to the New York City Subway chase in one of his favorite films, The French Connection.[7]
  • The explosion scene set in Tangiers echoes the famous "cafe" explosion scene from the film The Battle of Algiers.
  • The rooftop chase scene in Tangier bears a strong resemblance to a scene in the 1987 Bond film The Living Daylights in which James Bond is also involved in a chase across the rooftops of Tangier.

Music

Main article: The Bourne Ultimatum: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

As with the previous films in the trilogy, the score was composed by John Powell. A new version of Moby's "Extreme Ways", entitled "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)", was recorded for the film's end credits.

Release

  • Benefit premiere — A premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum was held in downtown Oklahoma City on July 31, 2007, at Harkins Bricktown Theaters[8] to benefit The Children's Center, located in suburban Bethany. The film was shown simultaneously on three screens. Matt Damon was at the event to greet guests.
  • UK premiere — The film premiered at Leicester Square in London on August 15, 2007, with Matt Damon, Julia Stiles and Joan Allen attending. The film was released the next day.[9]
  • Australian premiere — The film premiered in Sydney on August 8, 2007, at the State Theatre, with Matt Damon attending.

The Bourne Ultimatum was released nationwide on August 30, 2007.[11]

  • Home Video Release — The film was released on both DVD and HD DVD Combo Format on December 11, 2007 in North America.[12] The DVD was released in both Fullscreen and 2.35:1 Widescreen aspect ratios. The HD DVD and DVD special features[13] includes several deleted scenes, featurettes, audio commentary, and exclusively on the HD DVD version, HDi Interactive Format features such as Picture-in-Picture Video Commentary.
    In addition to the stand alone DVD release, there is a limited edition 'The Jason Bourne Collection' gift set, featuring all three films on DVD and a bonus disc with a myriad of bonus features such as deleted scenes and featurettes. The gift set features Swiss Bank safe deposit box packaging including foreign currency and a Jason Bourne passport.[14][15]
    The film and special features on the HD DVD version are presented in 2:35:1 Widescreen high definition 1080i and offer Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 audio options.[13]

Reception

The Bourne Ultimatum earned $69.3 million during its opening weekend at the box office, a record for a single opening in August[16] and $441.2 million worldwide as of December 14, 2007.[17] As of August 2009, the film garners a 93% "Certified Fresh" rating (208 positive out of 223 reviews total) at Rotten Tomatoes,[16] higher than either predecessor.[18][19] The film had a rating of 85/100 on Metacritic, again higher than the first two films.[20] At the end of its theatrical release, the film grossed at total of $227,471,070 in the U.S., making it the highest grossing film in the series.

Like its predecessor, The Bourne Supremacy, the film was criticized for its "shaky camera" work, as Richard Corliss of Time magazine, in an otherwise positive review, wondered "why, in the chat scenes, the camera is afflicted with Parkinson's? The film frame trembles, obscures the speaker with the listener's shoulder, annoys viewers and distracts them from the content of the scene."[21]

In the British press, the inclusion of a fictional journalist from the real British paper The Guardian and scenes set in the United Kingdom (particularly Waterloo railway station) were commented upon. In particular, that newspaper's reviewer noted that "dodging bullets from a CIA sniper... is the sort of thing which happens to us Guardian journalists all the time."[22][23][24][25]

Top ten lists

The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[26]

Academy Awards

The film won in all three categories in which it was nominated, giving it the second highest number of awards at the 80th Academy Awards (behind No Country for Old Men):

Other awards

  • ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Film of the Year, 2008[29]

Sequel

In May 2007, prior to the release of Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon claimed that he would not be interested in returning for a fourth Bourne film, stating (of his participation in the Bourne franchise): "We have ridden that horse as far as we can."[30] Damon even said in an interview on The Daily Show that director Paul Greengrass joked that a fourth film could be titled "The Bourne Redundancy."[31] Nonetheless, the financial and critical success of Bourne Ultimatum has led to speculation in several magazines and Internet forums that another Bourne film might be produced. On February 22, 2008, Variety reported that a fourth film was indeed in the works, with both Damon and Greengrass on board.[32]

This was confirmed on June 25, 2008, by producers Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley in an interview with IESB.net. Marshall said "Hopefully they will finish the script in 2010 and that they will be shooting in the summer of 2011 for a release in 2012 and our favorite anti-hero is apparently headed to South America."[33] On October 16, 2008, it was announced that George Nolfi would write the script, with Frank Marshall producing, and Jeffrey Weiner and Henry Morrison executive producing. Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, and Paul Greengrass are also attached to the film.[34][35][36] On August 21, 2009, it was announced that Universal had hired Josh Zetumer to help write the script.[37] Paul Greengrass has announced that he will not be directing. Bourne Identity director Doug Liman is the top candidate to replace Greengrass.[38]

On February 1, 2010, Damon, speaking at the UK premiere of Invictus, revealed that a follow-up to The Bourne Ultimatum was "at least five years away". Greengrass, also at the premiere, re-stated that he wouldn't be part of any further Bourne films "unless the right script came along". However, Damon revealed that in the meantime there may be a Bourne "prequel of some kind, with another actor and another director".[39] Matt Damon reconfirmed this on a March 10, 2010 appearance of Today, when speaking with Matt Lauer.[40]

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Quotes

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From Wikiquote

The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 film starring Matt Damon. In this third installment Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agent tries to track him down.

Directed by Paul Greengrass. Screenplay by Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns. Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum.

Contents

Dialogue

  • Noah: Noah Vosen.
    Jason Bourne: This is Jason Bourne.
    Noah: I was wondering when you were going to make this call. How did you get this number?
    Jason Bourne: You didn't think I was actually coming to Tudor City, did you?
    Noah: No, I guess not, but if it's me you want to talk to, perhaps we can arrange a meet.
    Jason Bourne: Where are you now?
    Noah: I'm sitting in my office.
    Jason Bourne: I doubt that.
    Noah: Why would you doubt that?
    Jason Bourne: If you were in your office right now, we'd be having this conversation face to face. (Camera switches to a shot of Bourne in Noah's office, breaking into the safe with Noah's voiceprint from the call.)
  • Paz: Why didn't you take the shot?
    Jason Bourne: Do you even know why you're supposed to kill me? Look at us. Look at what they make you give.
  • Newsreader: Meanwhile, mystery surrounds the fate of David Webb, also known as Jason Bourne, the source behind the exposure of the Blackbriar program. It had been reported that David was shot and fell from a Manhattan rooftop into the East River ten stories below. However, after a three-day search, Webb's body has yet to be found.
  • Pamela: You do not have the authority to kill her.
    Noah: Oh yes I do! And you had better get on board.
    Pamela: Noah, she's one of us. You start down this path, where does it end?
    Noah: It ends when we've won.
  • CIA Agent: Uh, sir he drove off the roof.
    Noah Vosen: What?
    CIA Agent: He drove off the roof!
  • Pamela:Listen, people - do you have any idea who you're dealing with? This is Jason Bourne. You are nine hours behind the toughest target you have ever tracked. Now I want everyone to sit down, strap in, and turn on all you've got. That would mean now!
  • Noah: Jesus Christ, Thats Jason Bourne!

Major Casts

Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Julia Stiles - Nicky Parsons
David Strathairn - Noah Vosen
Scott Glenn - Ezra Kramer
Paddy Considine - Simon Ross
Édgar Ramírez - Paz
Albert Finney - Dr. Albert Hirsch
Joan Allen - Pam Landy
Tom Gallop - Tom Cronin
Corey Johnson - Wills
Daniel Brühl - Martin Kreutz
Joey Ansah - Desh
Colin Stinton - Neal Daniels
Dan Fredenburgh - Jimmy
Lucy Liemann - Lucy

See also

External links

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