Other people prefer second chapters, for their inherent ambiguity and narrative darkening; I like watching a master storyteller pull all the attendant threads towards the middle like every single one of them has been heading there all along - and then blow everything up real good. Ultimatum doesn't disappoint in this regard; if it's not as gloriously sharp as Supremacy, it's about twice as skullfuckingly dense and nearly three times meaner.

Complete review be here.

Man, I love completing a trilogy. I think this is the last scheduled review that I have for quite some time - still haven't figured out what I'm going to be doing during TIFF this year (blogging at least, but I doubt I'll settle down to write actual one-pagers on anything because fuck, who has the time?) and I don't have anything else I'm keening to write about in the immediate future. But this was a fun one.