Bourne Immortal

The newest movie of the Bourne triology, The Bourne Ultimatum, was just released yesterday in Italy.

Once again starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, the film is an action pact melodrama, tracing the steps or rather riding the shoulder of an ex-CIA agent, who can't remember who he is, where he is from, or how he got to be involved in the life-threatening chase that takes him from Moscow to Morrocco, Sweeden to Spain, Paris, and England. Bourne is in and out of cars, trains, planes, boats and motorcycles, sometimes walking but most times running, as his tries to evade his predetors who seek to kill him. He is one man against the system, that being the CIA, which finds Bourne to be extremely dangerous, for reasons that aren't quite clear to the viewer. (Perhaps in the first of "the Bourne's", debuting almost five years ago, the cause can be noted but anyway...)

Bourne keeps running, jumping, shooting, crashing, and finally limping to New York City, as he employs his cell phone trickery to out smart the guys who should be the most intelligible in the world. Bourne breaks into CIA headquarters where he not only reveals the dirty secrets of the bad guys, but finds out who he really is: a boy from Missouri named David Webb. And that is the climax of the story. In short, The Bourne Ultimatum is a Gobal Village Thriller, using an orginal and fast-paced plot to create a sense of total confusion, not only for the protagonist but the viewer as well.

While people eat their popcorn, Hollywood grows fatter, as the gumbi farm boy from Missouri takes on the CIA. But other than that, nothing in the film relates to the reality of man. It merely keeps him on the tread mill of entertainment, running until the next sequel to the Bourne sequels come out...