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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Number 54 on IMDb's Top 250

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is back and he wants answers or hilarity will not ensue. The problem is that he doesn't really know who he is, he just knows that he can kick some serious butt. Bourne tracks down a reporter that has been working on a story about him and has come into possession of new information about the government agency he was a part of. This leads Bourne on a journey from Moscow to London to Spain and finally to New York and his past.

Trivia: During one of the scenes in the New York CIA office, a picture of Donald Rumsfeld can be seen on one of the computer monitors. It took six weeks to film the climactic car chase in downtown New York City. During the final car chase in NYC all the car are going 35 MPH or lower. The NYPD was afraid of pedestrians getting hurt and wouldn't let filming crews go any faster.

If you have read the books, you will know that the movies have little in common with them besides the character of Jason Bourne. Actually the plot of "The Bourne Ultimatum" was made into The Bourne Supremacy. "The Bourne Supremacy" has nothing in common with any of the movies, so it is a little confusing. As a action flick, this has everything you would want, car chases, foot chases, chases across roof tops, chases through down town New York, Bourne gets to beat up a bunch of people who are trying to kill him, stuff like that. We do get to see the return of Joan Allen and Julia Stiles who are now kind of on Bourne's side and not trying to kill him, but we add David Strathairn as the head of Project Black Briar an upgrade to Treadstone which created Bourne in the first place. And now we have to talk about camera shake. You know what I mean, when a film maker uses a hand held camera and constantly moves it around to create an artificial shake that is reminiscent of documentary film making. It is supposed to give a movie a gritty edge and realism to it. And it does...in moderation. Paul Greengrass is obsessed with camera shake. Even when the characters are sitting still at a cafe table talking the camera is moving, shaking, like the cameraman just finished a gallon of coffee. during the fight scenes it was great (it is really used as a cheat in fight scenes and stuff because if the camera is constantly moving, the actors don't need to be as precise in the fight choreography and you can use the actual actors instead of stunt doubles, but I digress). So, in certain points camera shake is useful but not every single frame of the movie please.