The Bourne Ultimatum DVD was released on Tuesday of this week, and it packs it all in with a punch. This movie had a lot to live up to, considering that the first two Jason Bourne movies were both very well made.

It also had to avoid falling into the trend of being another action movie sequel that lacks the luster of the original.

This final addition to the trilogy, felt like the most intense of the three. It’s an incredible edge of your seat, can’t take your eyes of the screen, adrenaline pumped thriller. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is back on the run, as a mastermind and international killing machine who seeks revenge and understanding of his life. The amnesia plagued assassin is still trying to connect tad bits of information to make sense of his complicated past. The amazing stunts, car chases and fight scenes could keep anyone interested and begging for more. The bonus features were a cool supplement to a very technical movie.

The bonus features provided an interesting inside perspective of how this movie came together. One of the bonus features called “Man on the move: Jason Bourne” had a behind the scenes look filming in some of the international cities that were featured in the film. This includes places like East Berlin (which actually was doubling for Moscow), Paris, London, Madrid and Tangier. I really enjoyed the part about filming in the middle of Waterloo station in London. One of the behind the scenes crew members talks about how difficult it was to get approval for filming in this location; he also discussed the intensity of filming in a train station with such a high flow of people. He estimated that Waterloo station sees about 380,000 passengers per day! The experiences of filming in Tangier, Morocco were also pretty fascinating to watch. The movie crew was filming during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, in which from sunrise to sunset, everyone fasts for religious purposes. The crew and cast were very culturally respectful and aware and they followed the local customs on that day and didn’t eat, drink or smoke for an entire day.

There is also a section for deleted scenes, most of which were pretty bland and boring. Watching these scenes were kind of a supplement to the movie for me, because it shows the editing process was well executed.

A feature called “Rooftop Features” shows the technicalities of the scene where Damon is jumping from rooftop to rooftop in Tangier. One of the most visually memorable parts of this movie for me is when Bourne jumps from a rooftop down into a kitchen window. One of the stunt men ends up having to make the jump with a camera, after Damon’s look a like. This shot turned out really cool because when you watch the movie it feels like your jumping right behind Jason Bourne.

Another bonus feature worth watching is called “Planning the Punches” which shows Matt Damon and Joey Ansah who plays Desh, learning and practicing choreography, martial arts and acrobatics necessary for their fight scene.

“Its more for me learning it like a dance, studying this stuff enough to understand balance and how I should move,” Damon said in the featurette. It’s interesting to see all of the fight scenes without the sound FX and in slower motion; it actually gives this scene the qualities of a dance.

“New York Chase” is a closer look at the crazy driving scenes from the film. Surprisingly Damon did a lot of his own driving for this movie. “The Bourne Ultimatum” has a very cool car chasing scene, a cop car is t-boned and pushed onto a cement traffic barrier and then flips over and crashes into another car.

Surprisingly, Unit director Dan Bradley said “we got some good stuff…but I’m greedy I didn’t get everything I wanted.”

I can’t imagine what else he could possibly want, because “The Bourne Ultimatum” has some very innovative and different approaches to the car chase that kept my heart pounding.

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