The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American-German action spy thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same title. The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi. The Bourne Ultimatum is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). The fourth movie, The Bourne Legacy, was released in August 2012.Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. In the film, he continues his search for information about his past before he was part of Operation Treadstone and becomes a target of a similar assassin program. 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. This is Damon's highest-grossing film with him as the lead. The three films have been commercially successful and critically acclaimed and The Bourne Ultimatum won all three of its nominations for Academy Awards, winning the Best Film Editing, the Best Sound Mixing and the Best Sound Editing at the 80th Academy Awards.
Movie Details:
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
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Produced by: Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Paul L. Sandberg
Screenplay by: Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi
Story by: Tony Gilroy
Based on: The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Édgar Ramírez, Albert Finney, Joan Allen
Music by: John Powell
Cinematography: Oliver Wood
Edited by: Christopher Rouse
Production company: Kennedy/Marshall and Ludlum Entertainment
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release dates: August 3, 2007
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United States, Germany
Language: English
Budget: $110 million
Box office: $442,824,138
Plot:
Following his pursuit by Kirill, Jason Bourne evades Moscow police. Six weeks later, CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy divulges the audiotaped confession of Ward Abbott, the late former head of Operation Treadstone, to Director Ezra Kramer. Meanwhile, in Turin, Guardian journalist Simon Ross meets a paid informant to learn about Bourne and Operation Blackbriar, the program succeeding Treadstone. The CIA tracks Ross as he returns to London, after his mention of "Blackbriar" during a cell-phone call to his editor is detected by the ECHELON system. Bourne reappears in Paris to inform the brother of his girlfriend Marie Kreutz of her assassination in India. Bourne reads Ross's articles and arranges a meeting with him at London Waterloo station. Bourne realizes the CIA is following Ross and helps him evade capture, but Ross deviates from Bourne's instructions and is executed by Blackbriar assassin Paz, on orders of Deputy Director Noah Vosen. Vosen's team, reluctantly assisted by Landy, analyzes Ross's notes and realize Neal Daniels, a CIA Station Chief involved with Treadstone and Blackbriar, was his source. Bourne makes his way to Daniels' office in Madrid, but finds it empty. He incapacitates gunmen sent by Vosen and Landy. Nicky Parsons, a former Treadstone technician who shares a history with Bourne, tells him that Daniels has fled to Tangier and aids his escape from an arriving CIA unit. Parsons learns that Blackbriar "asset" Desh Bouksani has been tasked with killing Daniels. Vosen sees that Parsons accessed information about Daniels and sends Desh after Parsons and Bourne as well, a decision Landy fiercely disagrees with. Bourne follows Desh to Daniels, but fails to prevent Daniels' death by a planted bomb. However, Bourne manages to kill Desh before he can kill Parsons. After sending Parsons into hiding, Bourne examines the contents of Daniels' briefcase and finds the address of the deep-cover CIA bureau in New York City, where Vosen directs Blackbriar. Bourne travels to New York. Landy receives a phone call from Bourne, which is intercepted by Vosen. Landy tells him that his real name is David Webb and his birthdate is "4-15-71". Bourne tells Landy to "get some rest" because she "look tired", tipping off his presence in New York. Vosen intercepts a text to Landy from Bourne of a location to meet up, and leaves his office with a rendition team to capture him. Instead, Bourne breaks into Vosen's office and steals classified Blackbriar documents. Realizing that he'd been had, Vosen sends Paz after Bourne, resulting in Paz forcing Bourne's car to crash into a concrete barrier. Bourne holds Paz at gunpoint before sparing his life. Bourne arrives at a hospital at 415 East 71st Street, memories of which were triggered by the false birthdate that Landy had given him earlier. Outside, Bourne meets Landy and gives her the Blackbriar files before going inside. Vosen figures out Landy's code and warns Dr. Albert Hirsch, who ran Treadstone's behavior modification program, that Bourne is coming. He follows Landy inside the building, but is too late to stop her from faxing the Blackbriar documents out. Meanwhile, Bourne encounters Hirsch on an upper floor and, with Hirsch's help, remembers that he volunteered for Treadstone. As Bourne flees to the roof, he is confronted by Paz, who asks, "Why didn't you take the shot?" Bourne repeats the dying words of The Professor: "Look at us. Look at what they make you give." Paz lowers his gun, but Vosen appears and shoots at Bourne as he leaps into the East River. Some time later, Parsons watches a news broadcast about the exposure of Operation Blackbriar, the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, a criminal investigation against Kramer, and the whereabouts of David Webb a.k.a. Jason Bourne. Upon hearing that his body has not been found after a three-day search of the river, Parsons smiles. Bourne is shown swimming away after his fall.
