Thinking ahead, Bourne phones the Italian police that there are American gunmen on site after which he and Nicky make their escape just as backup arrives who are then detained by the authorities. Take for instance in The Bourne Ultimatum, which is currently airing on HBO as I write, there is a sequence in which Bourne, investigating at a CIA outpost, confronts Nicky who is stationed at this office, and backup will be there in an hour, Nicky reveals to Jason its 3 minutes away.

Even though there was seriousness to the previous installments, the first three anyway, there was at least an awe and fun factor with the action scenes. I was struck by how… distant I felt while watching Jason Bourne. The CIA and this company are secretly in cahoots to use the social media to track hundreds of millions around the world under the guise of national security. Oh, and there is a quasi B-plot going on involving Dewey and his involvement with Aaron Kalloor (RIZ AHMED), the CEO of a mega social media company (along the lines of Facebook I suppose). Unbeknownst to Jason, however, the files had maleware installed by Dewey’s underling and protégé, Heather Lee (ALICA VIKANDER), and they’re able to trace his location despite being in an apartment occupied by a supposed master hacker referred numerous times but only seen once and never again in the film. Makes me wonder just how inept the CIA is and whether they should just stop black ops altogether…Īfter a lengthy motorcycle chase through a protest filled Athens, and resulting in Nicky getting killed by a CIA “asset” (VINCENT CASSEL), she does manage to give Jason a key to a locker which contains the hacked info. This hack also reveals other operations (like Blackbriar) and a new one, spearheaded by Dewey, named Iron Hand (*groan*).

He’s thrust back into the focus of CIA Director Robert Dewey (TOMMY LEE JONES) when former analyst Nicky Parsons (JULIA STILES) hacks into the agency files and learns his father, Richard Webb (GREGG HENRY), was in fact the originator of Treadstone, the black ops program responsible for Bourne’s very existence. The plot in this installment is more or less the same as the previous films: Jason Bourne (MATT DAMON) is basically a nomad, wandering the lands making money via street fights where he easily beats his opponents with one punch and in an instance, even takes a punishment before a TKO. But by film’s end, I’d titled it The Bourne Clichés as it more or less reuses the tropes that the Bourne franchise began. After the box office, as well as critical disappointment that was The Bourne Legacy (though I enjoyed it), when it was announced Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon would reunite (for the fourth time following Supremacy, Ultimatum and Green Zone), I was looking forward to Jason Bourne, even if I wasn’t wild about the title.

Note: This review contains some MAJOR SPOILERS so if you don’t want to know plot details, please skip this section.Īnd the year of disappointment continues. Writer(s): Robert Ludlum (characters) Paul Greengrass & Christopher Rouse (written by)Ĭast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz AhmedĪudio: English (DTS:X/DTS-HD MA 7.1), French (DTS-HD MA 7.1), Spanish (DTS 5.1) Jason Bourne had plenty going for it seeing the return of Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass after nearly a decade but what we got instead was a pretty much disinterested party involved and a half-assed script that seems to be a cliché of its previous movies.

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