The Bourne Ultimatum

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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014.
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Published on August 10, 2007 04:00AM EDT

Tense, nervy, and dazzling, as Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), the renegade CIA assassin, is hunted across three continents. Director Paul Greengrass seems to tear each image out of the one before it, and Damon’s human-Terminator terseness has become a form of wit. But when Bourne uncovers what happened to him, there’s a bit of musty Cold War didacticism.

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