'BOURNE' A SUPERB THRILLER

From: Roanoke Times & World News | Date: August 4, 2007| Author: Jeff DeBell Special to The Roanoke Times | Copyright information

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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