YMMV / The Bourne Ultimatum

• Even Better Sequel: Widely considered to be the best film in the series and a worthy successor to the already very highly regarded first two movies.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the beginning, Bourne revealing insider information about a top secret and sinister program run by a US government agency to a journalist working for The Guardian is bearing an eerie resemblance to what Edward Snowden did six years after the movie's release. Snowden also gets a namedrop in a subsequent movie.
  • The Tangiers chase in which Jason hurriedly tries to save Nicki from Desh gets harsher after Jason Bourne, in which he fails to save her under similar circumstances.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A couple months before the movie came out, Matt Damon said he had no interest in making another Bourne film unless Paul Greengrass called him ten years later and said that he "has a way to bring him back." Nine years later, Paul Greengrass decided to make a fifth Bourne film, which stars Matt Damon.
• Magnificent Bastard: Dr. Albert Hirsch is the psychologist overseeing the behavioral transition of candidates into the Treadstone program—and continues on through the Blackbriar and Operation Outcome programs as well, during which he watches the torture the recruits undergo to agree to submit to joining and following orders without question. Hirsch also once each candidate is primed, modified and ready personally gives his approval for each once they've successfully executed a masked prisoner—as he did with Bourne—and then proudly sends them off for active duties as Black Ops assassins. Hirsch once finding out from Noah Vosen that Bourne is on his way chooses to stay not only to give the CIA the chance to race there to catch Bourne, but also to willingly fill Bourne in on what he wants to know as well in hopes he can convince him to come back—remaining very calm and relaxed even when Bourne holds a gun to his head.
• Memetic Mutation: "He drove off the roof!" "WHAT?!" "HE DROVE OFF THE ROOF!"
  • "Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne." is often quoted whenever Matt Damon makes a surprise appearance somewhere, such as on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where Matt plays Jimmy's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis. It also had a life as an all-purpose meme on Vine.
• Retroactive Recognition: Daniel Brühl, who has a minor role as the brother of Marie, turns out to play a much larger role in Inglorious Basterds as Frederick Zoller and plays the main villain, Zemo, in Captain America: Civil War. Of course, those familiar with European cinema already knew him from Goodbye Lenin.

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