Jason Bourne is back with a bang! No, I mean it! He is back with a BANG! Well not just a bang, but a lot of booms and bangs!! What is it with these Bourne films anyway? Just when one thinks that a Hollywood flick cannot possibly contain more perfectly executed extreme action sequences, another Bourne movie comes out and sets a new standard. Before “The Bourne Identity” came out, nobody could have expected that someone like Matt Damon could have been used to portray the lead character of one of the most action packed pieces of fiction ever written. But as we all know, it could not have been a better choice. Then, when "Supremacy" came out, one thought one knew what to expect. But it so happened that Paul Greengrass, the new director, turned out to be even more zealous about unexpected explosions than his predecessor. Now he’s back with the third, and presumably the final, chapter in the Bourne franchise and, yet again, the audience is in for more action than can be digested!

The theme of the movie is evident from the title itself. Jason Bourne is finally out to find out the truth about himself. And his determination is as unshakable as it was when he had to escape the perils that he faced in the previous Bourne episodes. "The Bourne Ultimatum" is a movie of its kind, wherein it surpasses all spy-action movies released in the past. The lack of dialogues only adds to the tension built by the image of the one-man army out to seek the truth.

What really makes this movie different form all others of its kind is that the action in it is constant. There is not one second in the film that the viewer is not pushed closer to the edge of his seat. All the hundred and eleven minutes of its running time are either filled with action sequences or aggressive planning on the next move of Jason Bourne in his quest to the final answer. One actually feels dragged along with the central character as he eliminates the obstacles standing in his way one by one.

As mentioned earlier, the lack of dialogues in the movie is perhaps the most fascinating thing about it. The way the characters in the original book by Robert Ludlum are portrayed here without the use of words is something that only Greengrass could have accomplished with such finesse. What compliments this unmatchable piece of direction is the change of expressions in Damon’s face that convey the message to the audience, even though completely devoid of any dialogue. This seems to be a more affective way of handling the central character as the audience is made familiar with the unspoken emotions of the, otherwise, action machine.

All in all, "The Bourne Ultimatum" is a classic that will be a standard for coming spy-action movies for a long time to come. One can only hope that it is not the last one of the Bourne movies; because I, for one, had only started getting used to all the adrenaline rush.