The Bourne Ultimatum, directed by Paul Greengrass, was one of the big hits of the summer, so it’s hardly surprising that the DVD would top the bestseller lists on etailers such as Amazon.
I saw the film on the big screen when it was released last summer.
While I enjoyed it overall there were several scenes that seemed to suffer from “jerky camera”. The film’s director, Greengrass, is probably best known to some people for his documentary style film covering Bloody Sunday. While that style worked well for that film, porting it to a big action film like Bourne wasn’t without its shortcomings.
However, when I saw the film again last night on DVD the jerkiness of the camera in some scenes wasn’t as annoying and I didn’t have as much difficulty following the action.
While there are, naturally, several different versions of the film available on DVD at present I’d opted for the simplest one of all – the single disc version.
The extras section includes a set of deleted scenes. As so often happens in films of this nature the editors end up cutting several minutes from the film and possibly change the meaning of certain parts. In the case of Bourne the deleted scenes develop a couple of the minor subplots, but don’t reveal anything ground shattering. They also lack a proper menu structure, so you’re forced to watch all of them.
Overall the film is worth adding to your collection if you like a bit of good clean action.
Think of Bourne as a slightly dirtier version of James Bond but without the beautiful women!
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