Jason Bourne became a household name when Matt Damon stormed into the big screen as a man with many capabilities who has forgotten his past. The world has since got hooked into this new age action full of high octane chases, intense hand-to-hand combat sequences and a human element brought in by Matt Damon. There may have been moments in the trilogy where the script might have faltered a bit and immediately comes the next action set piece to completely distract and make you lose your train of thought. While this isn't in the same league, I might go as far as calling it a pale imitation of the Bourne movie imitators.
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has secluded himself to a life of torture punishing himself for his past. Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) hacks into the CIA network and steals the details about all the black ops files including the latest one - 'Iron Hand'. When she contacts Jason Bourne to help her get this content public, CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones), Cyber Head Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) along with an Asset (Vincent Cassel) unleash the full wrath of the agency into finding them to put an end to their nemesis.
Matt Damon is a very unorthodox actor and I never saw him play a role very convincingly. Good Will Hunting was an exceptional movie, but I never felt that he was the best person to play the title character. In fact I feel the same for most of his movies. But not while he is playing Jason Bourne. For me, he is Jason Bourne. However this movie shows that he is clearly past his prime to play that character and just comes off as a brooding sociopath who just likes to play cat and mouse with the Agency.
Alicia Vikander seems to have extended her role Ava from Ex Machina, in fact she shows much more emotions there. Tommy Lee Jones character is one of the most clichéd characters played over and over in Hollywood where his persona and skill makes it watchable, rather bearable. Riz Ahmed is going from strength to strength and is building up an impressive filmography, he suits the role of a young tech billionaire. Vincent Cassel just joined in for the brooding contest and his role is uncooked and inconsistent.
So far from the review, I have definitely made the point that it is a partially boring, heavily predictable and poorly acted Bourne movie, it is also the most logically unsatisfying, contemporarily lost one. To describe a few instances - the analytics and customer personalization abilities speech by Aaron Kalloor is at least 15 years too old, why does a Cyber head run field ops, the final chase has the Bourne's Dodge getting knocked around by so many vehicles and the air bags doesn't pop out, all the top secret black ops files are present sequentially in the file system of CIA servers, in fact anything to do with technology seems to be done by someone who doesn't understand it or not updated with the current ways, the manner in which the previous agents cause mayhem when they run amok in the traffic chasing each other in the name of collateral damage (reminded me of Transformers). These are just a few that I could recall when writing this review and I am sure there were a lot more.
The chases, hand to hand combats, especially dialogues are uninspired. The editing department should have chopped at least 30 mins runtime off the movie that could have made it at least a little more bearable. Paul Greengrass is not someone who just made the shaky camera cinematography famous but has made some excellent movies too. Greengrass, Matt Damon and the rest of the crew should have stayed off this project. My next dream Jason Bourne movie would be to have him placed living a peaceful life in a suburb and he needs to use his skills to save the day in a small domestic environment as an action comedy.
Not even for the fans of the franchise - uninspired, lacks intelligence and poorly acted.
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has secluded himself to a life of torture punishing himself for his past. Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) hacks into the CIA network and steals the details about all the black ops files including the latest one - 'Iron Hand'. When she contacts Jason Bourne to help her get this content public, CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones), Cyber Head Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) along with an Asset (Vincent Cassel) unleash the full wrath of the agency into finding them to put an end to their nemesis.
Matt Damon is a very unorthodox actor and I never saw him play a role very convincingly. Good Will Hunting was an exceptional movie, but I never felt that he was the best person to play the title character. In fact I feel the same for most of his movies. But not while he is playing Jason Bourne. For me, he is Jason Bourne. However this movie shows that he is clearly past his prime to play that character and just comes off as a brooding sociopath who just likes to play cat and mouse with the Agency.
Alicia Vikander seems to have extended her role Ava from Ex Machina, in fact she shows much more emotions there. Tommy Lee Jones character is one of the most clichéd characters played over and over in Hollywood where his persona and skill makes it watchable, rather bearable. Riz Ahmed is going from strength to strength and is building up an impressive filmography, he suits the role of a young tech billionaire. Vincent Cassel just joined in for the brooding contest and his role is uncooked and inconsistent.
So far from the review, I have definitely made the point that it is a partially boring, heavily predictable and poorly acted Bourne movie, it is also the most logically unsatisfying, contemporarily lost one. To describe a few instances - the analytics and customer personalization abilities speech by Aaron Kalloor is at least 15 years too old, why does a Cyber head run field ops, the final chase has the Bourne's Dodge getting knocked around by so many vehicles and the air bags doesn't pop out, all the top secret black ops files are present sequentially in the file system of CIA servers, in fact anything to do with technology seems to be done by someone who doesn't understand it or not updated with the current ways, the manner in which the previous agents cause mayhem when they run amok in the traffic chasing each other in the name of collateral damage (reminded me of Transformers). These are just a few that I could recall when writing this review and I am sure there were a lot more.
The chases, hand to hand combats, especially dialogues are uninspired. The editing department should have chopped at least 30 mins runtime off the movie that could have made it at least a little more bearable. Paul Greengrass is not someone who just made the shaky camera cinematography famous but has made some excellent movies too. Greengrass, Matt Damon and the rest of the crew should have stayed off this project. My next dream Jason Bourne movie would be to have him placed living a peaceful life in a suburb and he needs to use his skills to save the day in a small domestic environment as an action comedy.
Not even for the fans of the franchise - uninspired, lacks intelligence and poorly acted.