The Bourne Ultimatum is a three-time Academy Award winning 2007 film loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name.
A sequel to The Bourne Supremacy and the third film of the Bourne Trilogy, it stars Matt Damon reprising his role as Ludlum’s signature character, amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen co-star. The key cast members reprise their roles from the two previous Bourne movies, with additions such as Strathairn, playing a CIA department head; Considine as a British journalist; and Ramirez as a new assassin sent to kill Bourne. The film continues the saga of Jason Bourne after he apologizes to the daughter of Vladimir Neski in Moscow, Russia, and follows the character as he travels to Paris, London, Turin, Tangier, and New York City to uncover his real identity, while the CIA continues to send assassins after him.
Paul Greengrass directed the film from a script by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nolfi, and an uncredited Tom Stoppard.
The producers were Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall, Paul L. Sandberg, and Doug Liman, who directed the first Bourne movie, The Bourne Identity.
The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007 in North America, where it grossed $69.2 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of release, making it the highest August opening. By the end of August 2007, the film was said to be on track to exceed the international box office gross of the first two films in the trilogy.
The movie begins immediately after Bourne apologizes to Neski’s daughter. Wounded from the Bourne Supremacy car chase, Jason Bourne is still evading the Moscow police. Cornered by two officers while breaking into a medical clinic to treat his wounds, Bourne overpowers the officers and leaves them alive as he escapes, saying to one that his argument is not with them.
The story continues six weeks later as Simon Ross, a security reporter for The Guardian, meets with Neal Daniels, the CIA station chief in Madrid, to discuss Treadstone and looking for information on Jason Bourne. Bourne goes to Paris to tell Marie’s brother, Martin, of her death, then heads to London by train and reads an article in The Guardian where Ross describes Jason Bourne as a CIA officer. Bourne arranges to meet Ross in London at the south entrance of Waterloo Station. Ross, however, is under surveillance because his use of the word “Operation Blackbriar” in a phone call to his editor was tracked by ECHELON, alerting the CIA. CIA section chief Noah Vosen alerts his staff to find out any information on Ross, believing that Operation Blackbriar (a renamed Treadstone proposed by Ward Abbott at the end of The Bourne Identity) has been compromised.
Some time later, Nicky sees a news report noting the exposure of Blackbriar, the arrests of Hirsch and Vosen, that CIA Director Ezra Kramer is the subject of a United States Senate hearing regarding his conduct, and that David Webb (Bourne’s real name), fell into the East River. The report notes that after a three-day search, Bourne’s body is yet to be found: at which Nicky smiles. As Moby’s “Extreme Ways” plays, the movie (in an allusion to the opening scene of The Bourne Identity) cuts back to Bourne, floating motionless in the water; after a long moment he starts to move, and swims away into darkness.
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