{"id":5657,"date":"2011-01-10T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2015-10-20T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:13:07","slug":"the-bourne-ultimatum-2007-paul-greengrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5657","title":{"rendered":"The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, Paul Greengrass)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quality ending to the trilogy.  I liked the timely references (waterboarding, gov&#8217;t using Echelon to track keywords spoken over cellphones) and new actors &#8211; David Strathairn (<em>Good Night and Good Luck<\/em>) as the new evil bureaucrat and Paddy Considine (same year as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/248\">Hot Fuzz<\/a><\/em>) as an intrepid reporter.  Unfortunately, by Strathairn&#8217;s orders, Considine gets a bullet in the head.<\/p>\n<p><em>Evil David Strathairn:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/bourneult2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Julia Stiles and Joan Allen take Bourne&#8217;s side, and a wide-mouthed Albert Finney plays a haunting evil from Bourne&#8217;s past, proving that all women are friendly and craggy-faced old men are wicked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Evil Albert Finney:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/bourneult1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>An informant in Madrid is blown up by a CIA hit man.  Bourne fights two of those guys but only kills one, at most.  He&#8217;s like Arnold in <em>Terminator 2<\/em> now, a killing machine that doesn&#8217;t want to kill.  The action is surprisingly comprehensible except for one hand-to-hand fight edited for maximum headache potential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quality ending to the trilogy. I liked the timely references (waterboarding, gov&#8217;t using Echelon to track keywords spoken over cellphones) and new actors &#8211; David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck) as the new evil bureaucrat and Paddy Considine (same year as Hot Fuzz) as an intrepid reporter. Unfortunately, by Strathairn&#8217;s orders, Considine gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1183,1198,30,1107,131,1156],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-albert-finney","tag-c-i-a","tag-identity","tag-matt-damon","tag-memory","tag-paul-greengrass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}