I just saw The Bourne Ultimatum. The initial plan was to see it last night, but it was sold out when we got there. (Darn date night!) So instead we rented a movie (Ocean’s Eleven) and watched that. We made attempt two this afternoon.
It was good. A nice action movie where the main character actually seems to get hurt. Matt Damon spends a good chunk of the film limping. It doesn’t seem to last though.
The biggest problem I had was the same with the last movie: They mixed up the Steadicam with a paint shaker. At no point was the camera ever still. My friend got a nasty headache from watching. I avoided it by closing my eyes and resting them every so often.
It looks like there were some great stunts and action scenes, but I really couldn’t tell. The camera was too shaky.
I would still recommend it, but be aware of the above caveats.
It doesn’t make the Americans look good though. It may, in their eyes, do that, but to the rest of the world it looks bad. The CIA does whatever they want, wherever they want. Indiscriminately killing, and the term rendition was bandied about. It pretty much stereotypes what many foreign countries would think of Americans at the present, and not the good thoughts.