They all kind of ran together to me. A lot of blurry fighting and quickly edited car chases. Mat Damon asking everyone who he is and telling people that he's watching them with a sniper rifle and that big faced girl looking scared and the skeletor woman being all pissed off. The girl from Run Lola Run was in a couple of them but they killed her. I got the gist.

I hope they hire a cameraman without Parkinson's this time.

Shaky cam problems aside,The Bourne Ultimatum was actually the best of the trilogy IMO.

blackminded: realmolo: The BEST "spy" "government operative kicks ass" movie, though, is "Spartan", with Val Kilmer, written and directed by David Mamet. If you haven't seen it, rent it now.

I'll check it out, purely because I love that sort of movie.

/too bad Jackal sucked
//great premise

Goddamn Spartan is such a good f*cking movie.

I downloaded and watched the trilogy back-to-back-to-back once, and to this day I still have not the foggiest farking clue what was supposed to be happening in those flicks.

Something about a guy perpetually on the run, and outwitting people using technology and cell phones. And then a bunch of action scenes happen that never let you see the action, so you're left in utter confusion about what is happening and who is where and how he got into -- and out of -- that predicament. It's all guesswork when the screen is full of shoulders and elbows and spastic takes, cut aways and quick pans. It's like an internal struggle between the viewer who wants to see what's happening and the director and cinematographer who continuously make the viewer see something else.

Viewer: "Wait, go back! What was that in the corner of the room?"
Cinematographer: "No, come look at this. He sees a window and he knows he can escape from it."
Viewer: "Stop for a second. He should close the door first, but I think I saw a gun on the table in the corner. He can use that."
Cinematographer: "No, here's a quick shot of a newspaper that has the city on it. That's how he knows where he is."
Viewer: "That's fine, but it's not really important. Are they still tracking him from his last call?"
Cinematographer: "Okay, now the antagonist is heading up the stairs."
Viewer: "Which stairs? Does he know wh-"
Cinematographer: "There's a car down on the street pulling up to the building."
Viewer: "What does that car have to d-"
Cinematographer: "Hey look, a squirrel!"
Viewer: "fark off! Stop jumping around from shot to shot."
Cinematographer: "A fist punches Jason in the back of the head!"
Viewer: "WHO'S?!?!?"
Cinematographer: "Fight scene! Here's an elbow!"
Viewer: "I can't even tell how many people there are. Can you pan back a bit and let me see the entire thing?"
Cinematographer: "A knee! The guy wearing black gets flipped over and pinned!"
Viewer: "They're both wearing black. Is that Jason?"
Cinematographer: "Punches, MMA style!"
Viewer: "Why doesn't he just shoot him?"
Cinematographer: "Jason wins, and runs out the building."
Viewer: "I have no idea how he won when he was just pinned and receiving punches 5 seconds ago."
Cinematographer: "Here's the CIA doods tracking his location."
Viewer: *sigh*

It is really really REALLY frustrating to watch a movie in this manner.

Underneath this god damn mess was the heart of a really good story. But by the third movie the shakey style was overused so much it became cliche/parody. The whole franchise is utterly unwatchable. I'm not interested in freeze-framing to find out what's going on.