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Slick is how I will summarize Bourne Ultimatum. Well executed, continuous flow, non-stop intriguing moments, and a nice tidy clean-up in the end. Well done!

The movie continues from the second movie, in which Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), the rogue CIA agent, looses his girlfriend. The story starts a bit slowly, in Moscow, with Bourne on the run from local cops. After that, things heat up and you get to see the customary chase across Europe and the Atlantic, where things finally end at good old USA.

Bourne is determined to get to the bottom of his identity and punish those who made him who he is now. He gets in touch with a journalist investigating Bourne, but before he can get more details, the journalist gets assassinated. However, Bourne retrieves some documents from the dead journalist’s bag. This happens at the famous Waterloo Station in London. The scene where Bourne guides the journalist was well-taken. Did I say slick earlier?

The assassination is ordered by CIA who using a technology called ECHELON (which is supposed to be a fictional capability of the US government to track and listen to phone class all over the world!) realized that the journalist is getting information from a CIA insider. The CIA unit boss, Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) who in charge of bring down Bourne, is also the officer in charge of Project BlackBriar, the upgrade to Project Threadstone. After the botched assassination, Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), another CIA official, is called up to assist in apprehending Bourne. She was the one who made contact with Bourne and realized that he may not be a rogue agent after all in the second movie.

The chase moves to Tangiers, Morocco as Bourne tries to get in touch with the journalist’s informer. He meets Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who now works as a CIA liason officer (She was introduced in the first movie). She acted for about 20 minutes only in this movie. Parsons helps Bourne to track the informer, but again Vosen orders the informer to be assassinated before Bourne is able to talk to him. A motorbike and rooftop chase occurs as the assassin goes after Bourne and Parsons. Bourne kills the assassin. Both of them part ways soon after that. Pamela quits the operation team because she is against the way Vosen orders assassinations of fellow agents and public. She tries to warn the CIA head, but to no avail. Continue Reading »

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I realized Vishal has a new title: Puratchi Thalapathi. Not that he needs it. This movie is a continuation of his “dishum dishum” antics from previous movies. The director Boopathi Pandiyan had a good premise, but as is the case with many other movies, spoilt it.Vishal (Anbu) is released on bail and asked to sign at the police station in Thiruchi daily, after getting involved in a fight with village gangsters led by Kadhal Dandapani. So, his family packs him off to Thiruchi to stay with his uncle Adish Vidhyarthi (Kandaswamy), who is a policeman at that police station. Oorvasi (Kamala) acts as a constable. On his way, he sees Priyamani (Malar) feeding the crows and falls in love with her.

On another track, we see villain Devaraj (Palani) and his brother, Ajay (Guna), who terrorise Malaikottai. Due to a murder investigation, Devaraj is forced to leave town, and passes control to his brother.

While trying to evade Vishal’s advances, Priyamani fibs that she is in love and points to the Ajay as her lover. Vishal, being the gentleman, approaches the villain and congratulates him. The villain becomes infatuated with Priyamani and chases after her. When she realized who the bad guy is, she is horrified. Vishal learns that those two are not in love and bashes Ajay to comatose level.

The Devaraj comes back and vows revenge for his brother’s condition. How Vishal bashes everyone else makes up the remaining of the movie.

Vishal’s acting is becoming predictable. Same stance, same stare, similar dialogues. Boring..boring. Chellamae, Sandaikhozhi, Thimiru, Sivapathigaram, and now Malaikkotai are making him an Action King. To hide that, he tried to install an element of comedy in this movie, which unfortunately reminds me of Vijay acting.

Adish Vidhyarthi has arguably the best roles. Known mostly for his villain roles, it was refreshing to see him as strict policeman with an unrequited love past. His comedy scenes, especially in the flashback scenes are not to be missed.

Oorvasi, as usual, provided comedy together with Adish Vidhyarthi. This was a stroll in the park for her.

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Saw this movie at Kuantan Megamall. Since Jodie Foster acted in it, the expectation is higher. The movie started off like a happy movie; couple in love (Naveen Andrews - Lost Series-as handsome as ever); good job (she an audio presenter, he a doctor); wedding plans in motion; life is a bliss. Until, as Then pointed out, the dog came into the picture. Well, you have to see the movie for more on that. Suffice to say that the doctor ends up dead and our heroine ends up comatose for 3 weeks. Continue Reading »

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