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'BOURNE' A SUPERB THRILLER
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When "The Bourne Ultimatum" director Paul Greengrass cries
"action," he ain't kiddin'.
His entertaining new movie opens with a nighttime Moscow chase
scene in which fugitive American CIA agent Jason Bourne eludes the
police, breaks into a pharmacy to self-medicate his wounds, then
eludes the police again.
And that's before the opening credits. It's also the first of at
least five chase sequences in the movie, a couple of which raise the
bar for such scenes in all action movies t...
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An even better Bourne ; 'Ultimatum' wraps up story with gripping rush
The Gazette
; ... he has injured, Bourne's next visit is to Paris, where the brother of his murdered girlfriend must be given the heartrending news. Determined to retrieve his ever-splintering memory and discover just who it was who made him into a lethal weapon, Bourne finds ...
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Film box office wrap: for the weekend of Aug. 3-5.(Statistical table)
Daily Variety
; Theater Beat This weekend's top 10 theater engagements Weekend Rank Film Theater, city (circuit) B.O. gross 1. The Bourne Ultimatum $209,345 ArcLight 15, Hollywood, CA (PACF) 2. The Bourne Ultimatum 178,235 E-Walk 13, New York City (REG) 3. The Bourne Ultimatum 149,527 Lincoln Square 13, New York
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Bourne, Again
Philadelphia Weekly
; Bourne, Again The final film of the trilogy, Ultimatum is one of the best movies of the year. By Sean Burns sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com The Bourne Ultimatum A Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Matt Damon, Joan Alien, David Strathairn Opens Frl., Auq. 3 Arriving at the tail end of a disastrous
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Bourne Again
American Cinematographer
; Cinematographer Oliver Wood circles the globe for The Bourne Ultimatum, the third installment of the action franchise. Based on a character created by Robert Ludlum, tiie Bourne trilogy - The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum - focuses on a somewhat more cerebral agent
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Bourne's back with more edge-of-the-seat action.(Entertainment)
Cape Times (South Africa)
; HHHH THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM. Directed by Paul Greengrass, with Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn and Albert Finney. Review: CARINA CHOCANO IT says something about Paul Greengrass's directing style that he's able to make a movie as fresh and
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