| 100 |
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
Bravura 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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| 100 |
USA Today
The best action thriller of the year.
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| 100 |
Empire
James Dyer
The 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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| 100 |
Slate
Dana Stevens
Feels fresher, leaner, and faster than any action movie in years.
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| 100 |
The New York Times
Mr. 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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| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Unstoppable fun.
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| 100 |
Salon.com
A 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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| 100 |
Time
The movie is one continuous, exhausting, exhilarating chase.
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| 91 |
Portland Oregonian
It'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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| 91 |
Baltimore Sun
Few films combine a dense and tingling atmosphere with the headlong pacing and adventure of The Bourne Ultimatum.
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| 91 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Damon's minimalist style is key to why the Bourne movies have become an oasis from other blockbuster action fare.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
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| 90 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Audiences 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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| 90 |
Variety
A pounding, pulsating thriller that provides an almost constant adrenaline surge for nearly two hours.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
It 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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| 88 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Both the most bewildering of the three movies and also the most brutally compelling.
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| 88 |
TV Guide
It's the rare action picture whose adrenaline-driven thrills neither overshadow the characters nor degenerate into cartoonish preposterousness.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
You 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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| 88 |
Boston Globe
The 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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| 88 |
Miami Herald
It'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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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Bursting with so much amped-up energy, you may need to rest once it's finally done.
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| 88 |
Rolling Stone
The 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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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
This is the most satisfying thriller of the year, capping the Bourne trilogy.
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| 88 |
New York Post
Director 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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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Faster and, if possible, furiouser than its predecessors.
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| 80 |
The New Yorker
You 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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| 80 |
Newsweek
For 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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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Greengrass and co. may have made one of the best action movies in recent memory.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
The Bourne Ultimatum provides a lot more suspense and tension than "Transformers" could hope for.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
For 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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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Director 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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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A thoughtful, satisfying action thriller.
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| 75 |
Premiere
Most 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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| 70 |
Film Threat
A 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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| 70 |
New York Magazine
It’s not just vérité--it’s battlefield vérité; it triggers your fight-or-flight instincts.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
This 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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| 60 |
Washington Post
It's frenetic to the point of crazy while achieving a mark that barely exceeds mediocre.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The movie is so surreal it's just not very involving. As an action extravaganza, it's busy but dull.
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