[WithJason Bourneset to open this weekend, we’ll be taking a look back at the originalBournetrilogy.  These reviews will containspoilerssince the movies have been out for years.ÂClick herefor my review ofThe Bourne Identityandclick herefor my review ofThe Bourne Supremacy.]In 2004, the post-9/11 American had begun to take shape andThe Bourne Supremacyreflected that change.  It provided a conscious subtext, but the movie remained first and foremost an action-thriller.  But by 2007, the change in our country was no longer worthy of a simple observation.  The change had produced a feeling, and that feeling was anger.  We had been misled into a war, and the government was taking extraordinary powers against Americans in the name of protecting Americans.ÂThe Bourne Ultimatumis unapologetically political, which is its greatest weakness and its greatest strength.  DirectorPaul Greengrassstill delivers a pulse-pounding blockbuster that retains the same intensity ofSupremacy, but he pushes audiences to not only recognize the seismic shift in our country, but to confront our complicity in it.The Bourne SupremacyandThe Bourne Ultimatumare essentially one big movie.ÂUltimatumbacktracks and looks at the time between Jason Bourne’s (Matt Damon) confession to Irina Neski (Oksana Akinshina) and his arrival in the U.S. to talk to Pamela Landy (Joan Allen).  The movie plays a little ret-conning by changing their conversation from a cool endnote onSupremacyinto the turning point at the end ofUltimatum’s second act.  Leading up to their conversation, we see Bourne attempt to make amends for his other killings while dealing with new flashbacks that push his mind even further back as he attempts to remember how he even joined Treadstone in the first place.  His investigation ramps up when he finds himself in the crosshairs of “Blackbriar”, a black-ops task force lead by Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) who doesn’t have to worry about any red tape.  He’s free to use assassins to pick off anyone who might compromise the program, and he does just that when he takes out investigative journalist Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) and later when he has the CIA Station Chief in Madrid, Neal Daniels (Colin Stinton) killed.