Bourne Ultimatum

I had just finished reading the book last yesterday. I really intended to finish it so I could compare it with the movie, which we planned to watch in the afternoon. The movie has been showing for weeks and only a few theaters are still showing it. When I checked the papers yesterday morning, it was still showing at Glorietta so we planned to watch it there. At 4pm, my best friend, who was at the cinema lobby ahead of me, informs me that they changed picture at 3pm that afternoon. What a…! Cinema programming should be changed first thing in the morning at opening and not in the middle of the afternoon.

Well, so much for my intended comparison, my supervisor told me the plot and the characters were different. But I really want to know the extent of the difference and I want to see Matt Damon in action. L There’s nothing I can do about it but wait until I can grab a DVD copy. Grrrr…

Anyway, as for the book, it was my third Bourne reading and I can say I had enough of all the conspiracies and killings. I can never relate to the ways and thinking of an assassin, whether real or impostor. Also, I had enough of all the coercion any institution (like the CIA), military and government can make. I can’t imagine what has been done and currently being done and planned by the powerful countries to control our world history. There must be so many cover ups and corruption that has transpired much more than my mind can take. It is never the world for me.

Of the three Bourne books that I read, I like the first one, Bourne Identity, best. I read through the second, Bourne Supremacy and the third, Bourne Ultimatum, with tedious tolerance. Still like its predecessors, one can still be lost and awed by the dizzying twists and turns of the story. There is still so much action. The best part is Jason’s ultimate defeat of Carlos the Jackal.

But with three books, I just had too much.