Jason Bourne. Another very entertaining Bourne movie. It is not as good as the Bourne Ultimatum and there is some element of repetition through the series. The storyline isn't anything amazing either though we find out more on Jason's mysterious background. But I just love this series. I thought the first three were amongst the best ever film trilogies and this is a worthy addition.
Compared to James Bond films, Mission Impossible and various other action films with a hero this just seems so much more believable and compelling. Ok his skills at noticing when people are following or looking at him are a bit too good but otherwise the action scenes in Bourne films always work so well. They rarely have an absurd way to end, they have solid looking fighting, not too much magically avoiding bullets etc and they keep you glued to the screen. IT is always great to see how he will evade the surveillance when he is meeting someone. Though the last car chase scene is a bit nuts hollywood style. The earlier one set in Greece is great.
Finally got to see
Jason Bourne. I liked it, and I generally agree with much of what
@Judderman said about it. But I have, perhaps, a bit more to say.
I thought that the first three films in the series were terrific, downright masterpieces. I heard, some time later, that Matt Damon had turned down a script for a fourth film; and I admired him for that, feeling that if he felt the script presented to him wasn't good enough, he was right. (They then churned out a fourth so-called "Bourne" film, without Bourne; it was eminently forgettable...)
So, I was surprised to learn about this new one; and I had to conclude that Damon has good reasons for agreeing to it. And after seeing it, I think I know that reason (or at least one of a number of reasons).
Understand, this film has a lot of action, and more of the various sorts of Bourne's ability to understand what his opponents are trying to do and plan to counter it...it's true, as
@Judderman said, that some of his anti-surveillance skills seem "a bit too good," but maybe that's what you can expect from the super-agent... But it does serve to make the film more fun, more interesting.
Another thing about this film, though, that I found interesting: filmed years after the first three, it made no attempt to disguise the passage of time. Bourne himself displayed a certain gray, grizzled appearance indicative of aging; as did several of the other characters brought over from the previous films -- including Nikki Parsons and the Asset played by Vincent Cassel (the latter, apparently filled with animus because Bourne defeated him before, pursues Bourne throughout this film, until they engage in a long hand-to-hand (and whatever happened to be lying around). And I was thinking, throughout that long fight, that you don't often see two super-agents, clearly in their forties, taking, and giving out, such punishment... (But maybe that's part of the difference between myself and super-agents.)
Oh, those reasons for thinking I understand why Damon did this film? I think it lies in the film's presentation of a CIA plot to obtain new technology that would enable 24/7 surveillance of, well -- of everybody! I think Damon was sending a message about government surveillance and the tendency of people in power to try to enhance that power...
It's a warning.
