“I was watching actually from the top of one of these rooms, down to the Strip, when they closed it off and just had one of the most spectacular action scenes I had ever seen”, she said. “Actually, they might reboot me before I bow out”.
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As I sat down in the theater to watch the film, I felt like a kid waiting for Christmas morning, so excited about what surprises the next few moments will bring. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the shadows.
After “The Bourne Identity”, though, Damon expanded his reach into the genres more likely to deliver true blockbusters, like sci-fi (“Elysium”), crime thrillers (“The Departed”), and even westerns (“True Grit”). You start to feel as exhausted and beaten up as Damon’s Bourne looks.
Steering the franchise into a post-Snowden world of mass surveillance and social media, Vikander and Ahmed – one a Central Intelligence Agency agent and potential confidant to Damon’s Bourne, the other a tech moghul – are very much ingrained in Greengrass’ rebooted franchise, and it’ll be interesting to see how the director continues to expand the backstory of each character moving forward. One scene in particular involves a auto chase that is brutal, exciting and downright fun.
Since we last met him Bourne has gone “off the grid” and is earning a living battering Eastern Europeans as a bare-knuckle fighter.
The brilliance of the series is that it married a complicated, amnesiac hero with dazzling and visceral in-your-face action set-pieces.
It doesn’t help that Tommy Lee Jones looks bored out of his skull here as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He apologized and explains now: “I just was hurt, unexpectedly hurt, by the idea of a Bourne movie getting made without me”.
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We know Jason Bourne as the skilled assassin who has lost his memory. While it makes for a great movie, it doesn’t exactly tell you much. Despite not knowing who he is, Bourne remembers the important stuff, like how to kill people with school supplies and his patented move, the “come alone, slip away”. It’s rated PG-13.
