first and foremost and speak a no fan of the genre and the bourne ultimatum be a breathtaking and virtuoso and superb action movie . secondly and it be a silly malarky of cartoonish super hero stuff . thirdly and the film carry a complex and important point and about crime fighter turn into criminal themselves . no reference be make to abu ghraib or the executive branch outrageous domestic assault on constitutional right and none be necessary . so and the late in the bourne series and in the hand of paul greengrass ( of the 2004 bourne supremacy and last year unite 93 ) and be a significant achievement and perhaps hold back but not actually diminish by the unavoidable excess of the genre . breathtaking above be meant both a a complimentary adjective and a description of the physical sensation represent for more than an hour from the first frame and the viewer seemingly hold his breath and push back against the chair by the force of relentless and globe trotting and utterly suspenseful action . there be no letup and no variation in the rhythm and pull of the film and and yet it never become monotonous and tiresome the way some kindred music video do after just a couple of minute . oliver wood in your face cinematography be make the best of tony gilroy screenplay from robert ludlum 1990 novel ( which doesn not stack up well against the bourne identity and write a decade earlier ) . matt damon be once again the inevitable and irreplaceable bourne and the deadliest of fantasy cia agent and this time take on the entire agency in search of his identity and his past and and the mysterious agency program that have turn him into a killing machine . nothing like his quietly heroic edward r. murrow and the always marvelous david strathairn be the nasty top agency official and pitch against bourne in try to hide some illegal take no prisoner policy and brutal procedure . joan allen play what appear to be the good cop against strathairn bad one . and and there be julia stile a the agent once again come to bourne aid while a combination of greengrass direction and stile act result in a surprising impact by a mostly silent character and her lack of communication and blank expression more intriguing than mile of dialogue . so good be the bourne ultimatum that it get away with the old one man against the world bit and this time stretch to ridiculous excess and a bourne defies constraint of geography and time and gravity . and physic in general . ( can you fly backwards with a car from the top of a building . why not it look great . ) all this real world magic leap from country to country in second and to arrive at some unknown location exactly as and when and and how needed outdo special effect and superhero cartoon improbability . and yet and only a clueless pedant would allow fact interfere with the entertainment base ecstasy of the bourne fantasy .