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100Unstoppable fun.
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100The best action thriller of the year.
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100The best blockbuster of the summer and the most accomplished thriller since, well, Supremacy. This is the payoff Bourne fans have been waiting for and the standard to which future blockbusters should be held.
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100A great action movie, exhilarating and neatly crafted, the kind of picture that will still look good 20 or 30 years from now.
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100Bravura doesn't begin to describe Greengrass's skill in mounting these complex sequences...This is, simply put, some of the most accomplished filmmaking being done anywhere for any purpose.
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100Mr. Greengrass knows how to do his job, and there's no one in Hollywood right now who does action better, who keeps the pace going so relentlessly, without mercy or letup, scene after hard-rocking scene.
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100Feels fresher, leaner, and faster than any action movie in years.
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100The movie is one continuous, exhausting, exhilarating chase.
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91A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
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91It's a relentless finale to the "Bourne" movie trilogy that raises the stakes, pumps up the action and develops old characters while introducing new villains
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91Few films combine a dense and tingling atmosphere with the headlong pacing and adventure of The Bourne Ultimatum.
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91Damon's minimalist style is key to why the Bourne movies have become an oasis from other blockbuster action fare.
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90Audiences will eat it up: This is a postmillennial spy-action movie pitched to a large international audience. You hardly need subtitles.
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90It says something about Paul Greengrass' directing style that he's able to make a movie as fresh and frank as The Bourne Ultimatum from a genre as moldy and bombastic as the spy thriller.
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90A pounding, pulsating thriller that provides an almost constant adrenaline surge for nearly two hours.
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88The movie is thunderously exciting, but what makes it resonate is the wrenching story we read on Damon's face. We've waited all summer for a wild ride to grab us with more than jolts. Now it's here. Hang on.
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88You sit there, and the action assaults you, and using words to re-create it would be futile. What actually happens to Jason Bourne is essentially immaterial. What matters is that SOMETHING must happen, so he can run away from it or toward it.
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88This is the most satisfying thriller of the year, capping the Bourne trilogy.
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88It's an action picture that's been distilled and compressed to its tightest, barest, almost abstract essence, and it's absolutely thrilling.
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88Bursting with so much amped-up energy, you may need to rest once it's finally done.
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88Director Paul Greengrass - who directed the superb "United 93" between the second and third "Bourne" installments - knows how to stage and edit bravura action sequences, generating almost unbearable suspense while deploying a superb cast.
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88It's the rare action picture whose adrenaline-driven thrills neither overshadow the characters nor degenerate into cartoonish preposterousness.
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88The movies are smart -- smarter than you, but not in an off-putting way. Their basic appeal, especially this new one, is that Matt Damon's killing machine, Jason Bourne, is the cleverest man on earth. And we thrill to his sense of superiority.
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88Both the most bewildering of the three movies and also the most brutally compelling.
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80Faster and, if possible, furiouser than its predecessors.
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80For action junkies, The Bourne Ultimatum will be like a hit of pure meth. It's bravura filmmaking in the jittery, handheld, frenetically edited Paul Greengrass style.
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80You come out of the movie both excited and soothed, as if your body had been worked on by felt-covered drumsticks.
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Greengrass and co. may have made one of the best action movies in recent memory.
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75A thoughtful, satisfying action thriller.
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75The Bourne Ultimatum provides a lot more suspense and tension than "Transformers" could hope for.
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75Most thrillers of this ilk have no qualms about going past the 120-minute mark, but I think Greengrass and company understood that overdoing it would turn mass excitement into massive headache.
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75For once, I didn't feel cheated by an unresolved ending, but let's hope this is the end. Robert Ludlum wrote three Bourne novels, and this is one series that ought not to be dishonored by inferior sequels.
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75Director Paul Greengrass downplays the movie's travelogue aspects by repeating the bobbly, hand-held camera style he used on "The Bourne Supremacy." It's not a style I'm fond of.
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70A perfectly serviceable action movie…better than most, in fact. The entire premise is growing creaky, however, leading us to think we might want to leave this particular spy out in the cold a while, before he becomes completely tiresome.
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70It's not just vérité--it's battlefield vérité; it triggers your fight-or-flight instincts.
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70This adaptation of Robert Ludlum's third and last Bourne thriller doesn't have much story left, so director Paul Greengrass has to keep it moving all the time.
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60It's frenetic to the point of crazy while achieving a mark that barely exceeds mediocre.
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58The movie is so surreal it's just not very involving. As an action extravaganza, it's busy but dull.
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