Ocean's 13
Just because it was funny... George Clooney and Brad Pitt give each other a self-aware parting shot to close out their final caper, in a film crammed with all the glib excess of a farewell tour. Settle down and have a couple of kids, indeed.
The Bourne Ultimatum
I enjoyed this movie immensely as the conclusion to this series which begins with the blank slate of Bourne's amnesia and keeps adding more and more levels of intrigue. The final film turns reflexively to the beginning, recreating many of the first film's most striking scenes but playing them out differently (a fact lost on a lot of the audiences who couldn't figure out the point of the hair-dying scene is that it doesn't end with hot espionage sex). The Ouroborosian final shot of Bourne, back in the water unconscious the way he started the first film, is broken by the scene of Nicky watching the news report on the climactic shootout, and when when she hears no body was found and pictures Jason swimming away... when that teary smirk breaks across her face, I couldn't help but grin with her.
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