The Bourne Ultimatum
Short description
Jason Bourne is still trying to piece together who he is and what was done to him. A British journalist, Simon Ross, is preparing a series of articles about a secret program called Blackbriar, which appears to extend the work of the Treadstone project that turned Bourne into an operative. Ross's reporting brings Bourne out of hiding and puts him on the trail of the people who created him, while the agency behind the program moves to silence both the reporter and the man he is writing about. Bourne's search takes him across Europe and the United States as he tries to recover the last pieces of his past and settle accounts with those responsible.
Paul Greengrass directed the film, his fourth feature and the third chapter of the series following The Bourne Supremacy. Matt Damon returns as Bourne, with Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons, David Strathairn as Noah Vosen, Scott Glenn as Ezra Kramer, Paddy Considine as Simon Ross and Edgar Ramírez as Paz. The screenplay was written by George Nolfi, Scott Z. Burns and Tony Gilroy, and Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley and Paul Sandberg produced.
Made for about 70 million US dollars, the film took roughly 443 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 8 out of 10 from around 682,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 out of 10 from more than 8,600 votes. A critics' rating of 8.1 out of 10 from 263 reviews places it above the audience scores on both sites.
What's left behind the scenes
- The beginning of the film, specifically the scenes where Bourne is in Moscow, were actually filmed in Berlin.
- Filming in Tangier took place during the holy month of Ramadan. This is a month of mandatory fasting for Muslims, so during the day, Muslims abstain from food and drink. Some members of the film crew were Muslim, and it was not easy for them to film while being unable to have a snack or take a sip of water. Because of this, the other members of the film crew also snacked and refreshed themselves with water, so as not to be seen if possible.
- Among the files Bourne steals from the CIA office is a file on a terminated agent, which features a photo of actor Richard Chamberlain, who played Bourne in the 1988 television production.
- The film is based on Robert Ludlum's novel 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (1990).
- Bill Clinton's autobiography, 'My Life,' can be seen on a bookshelf in Vos's office.
- The short chase and crashes in midtown New York took six weeks to film.
- The scene where Bourne asks Nicky about his past was filmed on a highway southwest of Madrid.
- While filming scenes in London, Matt Damon also appeared in a scene for Steven Soderbergh’s film "Ocean’s Thirteen" (2007). In it, Damon’s character walks down the street and discusses the security system of the casino the heroes are planning to rob.
- To film the chase scenes on the streets of Tangier, cameras were suspended on a cable stretched over the rooftops.
- During the fight between Bourne and special agent Desh Bukadi in the shower in one of the houses in Tangier (Morocco), a small sink is initially shown being torn off and falling, exposing a drainpipe. After the fight, Bourne searches the body, and the sink is shown in close-up, reattached to the wall.
- In the final dialogue with Dr. Albert Hirsch, the weapon in Bourne's hand changes from a Glock pistol to a Sig Sauer pistol after the flashback.
- It took 6 weeks to film the car chase on Manhattan. All the vehicles involved in the scene were driven at a speed of 56 km/h, as prescribed by police department orders.
- The film crew failed to close Waterloo Station, even for a short time, so pedestrians can be seen looking at and pointing to the filming camera in the shot.
- The plot dictates that the film begins immediately after the events depicted in "The Bourne Supremacy" (Paul Greengrass, 2004), but filming did not begin until January three years later. It was too cold in Moscow, so the corresponding scenes were filmed in Berlin. Snow was simulated using paper and foam, and it took over 5 hours to cover all the sets. An added bonus was that the paper and foam did not have a tendency to melt like real snow.
- The film crew consisted of 250 people, so separate planes had to be chartered for travel.
- In the chase scene in Tangier, the characters played by Julia Stiles and Joey Ansah's assassin navigate through a crowd. No extras were used in this scene; the street was genuinely crowded, and it was impossible to organize the disparate crowd, so the actors performed among ordinary passersby.
- The rifle used by Paz (Edgar Ramirez) in London is a SIG SG 552 Commando.
- During the scene in the New York CIA office, an image of Donald Rumsfeld can be seen on one of the computers.
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