Directed by : Paul Greengrass
Written by : Paul Greengrass, Christopher Rouse
Starring : Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel
Release Date : July 27, 2016
I'll be honest with you, the only Bourne movie I truly loved was the first one, 2002's "The Bourne Identity." Everything else was just passable entertainment, that I just couldn't really find myself to be completely invested in. They had some cool hand to hand action sequences and fantastic chase scenes though, but I could live without Paul Greengrass' shaky cam. So how did "Jason Bourne" do, after an almost decade long hiatus since Matt Damon played the iconic role? It's got amazing chase scenes again and a high production value.... cue cricket sounds. For a much awaited return of a beloved character, this movie should have given us more than what it offered!
In a ranking obsessed society, this easily falls at the bottom of the list for the Matt Damon Bourne films, and I could even argue that it's an even less interesting movie than the Jeremy Renner installment. Jason Bourne may be the title of the movie, but Bourne doesn't really do anything that noteworthy besides going through the motions of being someone hunted, someone who is good at fighting back, and someone who wants answers to secrets from his past. Toss in a plot involving privacy in social media, to go with introducing more people nefariously connected to his past, and what we have here is a story that should have been more interesting than it think it is.
On the subject of interesting, there is Alicia Vikander as CIA Agent Heather Lee, who is defined as being good with computers, and doesn't completely see eye to eye with CIA Director Robert Dewey; played by Tommy Lee Jones. She has a plot that appears more compelling than it really has the right to be, and so much so that I ended up wanting to know more about her than Jason Bourne. Speaking of being good with computers, it seemed like screenwriters Greengrass and Rouse both come from the Hollywood school of technology. Yes, there are problems with how this movie handles technology, and even continues the most annoying plot device of "enhancing" a pixelated image. When was this written, the 1990's?!
So what did I get from this "Jason Bourne" movie? More annoying shaky cam. Unremarkable hand to hand combat. Superficial examples of how the Government has their hands on all your favorite tech products. Plot conveniences up the wazoo. Plus a direction that questions the need to do more Bourne movies with Paul Greengrass.
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