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The Bourne Ultimatum Review

Matt Damon returns in the third (and quite possibly final) installment in the Bourne series, based loosely on Robert Ludlum�s novels of the same name.

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The movie starts where the last ended, with him on the run from the Russian police and trying to piece his background together. After escaping their clutches, he reads an op/ed piece in the Guardian and meets with the journalist who wrote it and tries to discover his source. Of course, the CIA was alerted by the same article and is tracking the journalist when Bourne meets with him. This leads to a long chase through Waterloo train station in London which ends with the journalists death.

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Bourne, however, has enough info to send him to Spain, seeking the CIA Station Chief. By the time he gets there, he�is long gone. He bumps into Nicky (Julia Stiles from the first two movies), who helps him locate his target. He is constantly hounded by Moroccoan police and another CIA hitman. Info he gathers leads him to a secret department of the CIA operating out of New York, where he hopes to finally remember who he is and why he was recruited/trained to do what he does so very well.

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As in the previous movies, the action scenes are intense and chaotic and the pace frenetic. The chase scenes are excellent and the movie never really slows down. Bourne is also shown to be human, and despite all his training, he makes mistakes and at times is over-matched by his adversaries. All in all, this movie very nicely wraps up the series and is worth the price of admission.