Best Bourne Movie?

I loved Supremacy the most personally. Have yet to watch the latest one though, so in the interests of fairness I didn't vote yet

 

I enjoyed Ultimatum mainly because of the brilliant narrative structure that I never imagined they would do. I don't recall a big budget sequel ever attempting something like that before.

The pacing for the movie was also ridiculous. It felt like it was ramping up and never slowed down. Kept you engaged the whole way. Greengrass just knows how to direct and present espionage and spy material along with Powell's score and its simple notes, everything just worked so effectively.

That's why Legacy was such a disappointment. Such a drop in quality even compared to Identity which I also loved and thought was pretty awesome at the time.

I think Identity is second because to me at the time it felt like a spy flick that went back to basics. Kind of stripped down all the modern BS that were killing and weighing down the Bond franchise at the time. Bourne was just one guy with his skills, his wits, and nothing else.

And in Legacy suddenly they are genetically enhanced super soldiers and Aaron Cross needs his crack fix. Boo!

 

Supremacy because of how dastardly Karl Urban was!

 

Supremacy has the best action, and I love Bourne's character arc in it.

I rank the Bourne films 2, 1, 3, 4.

 

I have never see one, I will watch the poll most rated.

 

Identity for me. The rest devolved into shaky-cam nonsense.

 

Supremacy. I think it had the best story.

 

Ultimatum is the one I would call a great film, though I really enjoy all three.

Identity would be great if it wasn't so obviously out done by the first two sequels. It like eating the same pancakes for years, thinking they are great. Then you have some real pancakes and you realize how not great the original ones were. It is still really good, but it can't compare to what came after. Well at least the two Damon sequels.

 

The problem with being able to "see" everything in Identity, is a lot of it is poorly choreographed.

I also never understood the not being able to see things in the Greengrass films. I can make out what is happening perfectly well and it gives the films great tension and urgency.

 

I'd rank the movies:

1. Supremacy
2. Identity
3. Ultimatum
4. Legacy

 

I thought Supremacy had the best plot but the cinematography was terrible. Ultimatum's cinematography wasn't much better.

Identity as my pick, all the way.

Legacy to me was a bit silly--if Damon doesn't want to do it anymore, just say that Renner is Bourne. I'm more than willing to accept it. Anyway, since neither the plot nor any of the action sequences in that one even reached Identity levels I'd say it's clearly the worst one.

 

I didn't even mind the shaky-cam during the chase scenes very much (though I felt it clearly obscured what was happening in Supremacy's final chase--at least it was abandoned for the final part of the scene which was the essentially memorable part of it anwyay), I could take or leave that to an extent, forgive it. It's that he has it shake slightly during dialogue scenes where people are talking--it's been so overdone that I would only have accepted it if it were done purposefully as a parody. It's not, though.

 

In terms of narrative, the first one was the most engaging and intruiging. It also had a nice little love story to coat all the exposition with a layer of humanity.

In terms of the technical ingenuity of set pieces, few are better than Ultimatum.

 

Legacy didn't really do much for me. I would have been cool with the series ending with Ultimatum. It had good symmetry with Identity. Bourne floating motionless in the river, linking to the opening scene of Identity which utilizes a similar image while repeating the same music.

 

I vastly prefer both Supremacy and Ultimatum over Identity. Those two are almost tied for me, but I think the Desh fight and the ending give Ultimatum the edge.

The Damon Bourne movies are my favorite cinematic trilogy. It's the only one I've encountered which I've felt actually got better with each installment and also managed to stick the landing.

Legacy was...alright.

 

Easily The Bourne Identity for me, I didn't care much for either of the Greengrass movies, his style is too bleak and I don't like his action, I preferred Legacy to them but Identity still tops the list.

 

Supremacy, only because Ultimatum's big reveal was just an "aha" thing for me. I don't believe people hadn't actually inferred the truth since movie 1.

 

The first three are the best movie, seriously they felt like one movie that was well made, a bad ass film!

 

Well, there was a tonal shift from 1 to 2-3, but yeah, they're consistent enough for me.

 

Identity easy since its the only one I can see what's happening