Rating: 9 / 10

Once again, Jason Bourne is on the run and trying to find his lost identity. On Aug. 3, Matt Damon returned to the screen as Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Ultimatum.”

During the course of this 111-minute film, there are a few slow-moving scenes, and very little humor, but the action is off the charts! Fans of gore will be disappointed, but lots of gunfire and high-speed chases certainly make up for the lack of blood. The music is exceptional, and the plot is mind-blowing.

Although Matt Damon portrays his usual character of a man with muscles and very few lines, his co-stars work well at spicing up the film.

Jason returns to the spy game now wearing darker colors, possibly signifying the loss of his love in the previous Bourne installment.

With a gun at his side and constant action, Bourne almost depicts a modern-day James Bond, minus the girls and suave demeanor.

As the movie opens, Bourne experiences flashbacks from his training days. Throughout the film, he struggles to find the truth of why his identity was stripped away.

Later in the film, in a high impact scene, Jason finds out the painstaking truth of the government conspiracy involving his life. The CIA realizes that Bourne is now a threat as he poses the possibility of embarrassing several officials who use him to form a secret project called Blackbriar.

After traveling around the world, Bourne ends up in New York. Once there, he meets with Pamela Landy, played by Joan Allen, who desperately tries to convince Bourne to help her make the conspiracy publicly known.

Bourne instead tracks down the mysterious Dr. Hirsch, played by Albert Finney, who finally confesses the truth behind Bourne’s origins. After Hirsch reveals a shattering revelation, Bourne finds himself under gunfire and leaps off a building into the East River below, but after watching Bourne run through three films he cannot just die!

The end of the film leaves the movie-goer with anticipation for another Bourne film.

The only question now, is whether that will actually be the case?