A production still from “Jason Bourne” with Matt Damon as the title character. Although Damon reckons he only utters “about 25 lines” in the entire film, his terse, near-wordless turn captures the character’s conflict perfectly. And amazingly, it does a pretty impressive job of bringing audiences up to speed with Jason Bourne’s complicated saga so far. He reckons they think he’s about 100 and also comment about his waistline!
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Of course, with a filmmaker as smart and talented as Paul Greengrass running the show, Jason Bourne does have some interesting things to offer within its mess of unfortunate choices, but they also lend the movie a bit of frustration to go with the audiences’ disappointment.
Although this set-up feels familiar from previous Bourne movies, Greengrass still manages to build plenty of tension as a Central Intelligence Agency hitman (Vincent Cassel) tracks Bourne from Europe to Las Vegas, where he plans to confront Dewey.
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Bone up on secret agent thriller Jason Bourne, with Matt Damon returning for his fourth film in the franchise as the highly trained, very deadly worldwide amnesiac super-agent, driven by an unquenchable desire to uncover the truth against all odds. Five years later, said reconfiguration surfaced with The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner as another runaway soldier. There’s the pen fight in The Bourne Identity, the “epic close-quarters” fist fight with a magazine in The Bourne Supremacy, and the open ending of The Bourne Ultimatum which obviously leads into the new Jason Bourne movie.
