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I couldn't agree with Craig Rhodes "Mind numbing MTV formula movie" more.
The plot was thin and the cinematography was fatiguing (resulting in many comments from friends concerning induced motion sickness). To assemble such an exceptional lineup of world-class actors that appear in the "Bourne Ultimatum" and then to have them mired in this kind of movie is disappointing. "Bourne Ultimatum" is a milestone in shaky-camera cinematography combined with amphetamine-like editing of the extreme-close-up; so much so that I wonder if there is now some new digital-editing software named 'house-fly-cam' and "attention-deficit-O-matic' that was used to save money on hiring a human camera-shaker and to implement those hundreds/thousands of sub-second edits.
Don't get me wrong, I like action flicks as much as the next guy, but years after brilliant action films such as "Indiana Jones" and even the "Bourne Identity", we should expect more from a studio with a truck-load of money and top actors than the look-and-feel of a 1990's video game suffering from an underpowered CPU.
