7 Threequels You Didn’t Realise Were Just Remaking The Previous Films

4. The Bourne Ultimatum

Bourne When it came out, The Bourne Ultimatum was heavily praised by critics for its mastery of shaky cam and successful rounding off of the Bourne story. Personally, outside of the brilliant Paddy Considine led opening, the film offers up nothing we haven€™t seen before, having Jason Bourne hunting down his creator (who is no longer Brian Cox because each new film has to undermine the previous one) and getting into awfully long fights. The real problem with Ultimatum is that it makes the same mistake many trilogy enders do; create the illusion of rounding off the whole series, while actually only concerning itself with elements created in this film; out of nowhere Jason Bourne just remembers more crucial information. Looking at the film as a continuation of Supremacy, it€™s bizarre. And the reason why that is is because it€™s all so bloody familiar. The Bourne Identity€™s ace was the reveal that Bourne was just a small part of this massive programme. The reveal that this massive programme was just a smaller part of an even bigger programme is the same twist pushed to stupid levels. Ultimatum takes so many of the developments from the previous two films and simply repackages them into a plot heavy with contrivance; they can€™t find Bourne in a public place, Jason has to travel somewhere just because a new pretty location was needed and the ending feels like it should be a cliffhanger when there's nothing really left open.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.