Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Trilogy is one of the more realistically filmed spy thrillers I have seen so far. I watched the last installment of the trilogy, Bourne Ultimatum, this afternoon and a guy (think he's an American based on his accent) told me out of the blue how he liked the movie while we were waiting for the elevator.

I admit that the movie is very well-filmed with solid fighting, exciting chase sequences, and slick cat-and-mouse game moves. Everything was very basic in terms of the tactics and equipment used but yet shown in a stylish way. It's realistic in what a (former) specially trained assassin with a multitude of skills like Jason Bourne can do. The only thing rather unbelievable is the final car crash scene which ended an extended chase. Don't think anyone can simply walk away from that kind of impact.

For anyone who cannot remember or do not know the stories of the first two installments, I will recall them briefly below as well as give a little spoiler of the third.

[Bourne Identity]
This was basically about the who and the what. Who was the guy known as Jason Bourne? What had happened to him? What should he do to escape from people trying to get him?

• A man with no memory of himself was saved after he failed on an assassination.
• He subsequently found an identity whereby he was known as Jason Bourne.
• A group operating under a CIA project codename "Threadstone" had sent killers as well as the police to hunt him down all over Europe.
• He managed to evade them with the help of a girl.

[Bourne Supremacy]
This was basically about the who and the why. Who were the people from project "Threadstone"? Why did they want to kill Jason Bourne?

• A year had passed. He had married the girl but she was killed soon after.
• He was out for revenge but subsequently was turned into a quest for the truth about "Threadstone".
• The killing was ordered to lure him out of hiding as the group could not let his connection to them be exposed.
• A killer bent on bettering him was killing in Jason Bourne's name to forced him out.
• He found out that "Threadstone" was a CIA project by the group to perform assassinations internationally without protocol and the group was said to have turned renegade.
• The CIA thought Jason Bourne was going to expose their secret operations and tried to stopped him.
• Jason Bourne finally who he was and gotten the head of the group to admit to the illegal operations he was once ordered to do.

[Bourne Ultimatum]
This was basically about the how and what. How did Jason Bourne became what he was now? What is the conspiracy inside the CIA that involved him?

• "Threadstone" had been upgraded to "Blackbriar".
• More high-ranking people in the CIA were involved in the unjustified assassinations of many people.
• Someone in the CIA wanted to expose the secret and leaked information to a reporter about Jason Bourne and the project.
• Both the CIA informant and the reporter were killed before Jason Bourne could extract the information he wanted.
• Jason Bourne was the first voluntary trainee of the project to turn soldiers into assassins.
• The lady CIA agent from the previous installment decided to worked with him to expose the conspiracy.