So, what has Bourne been doing all this time?
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Even as someone who sees the merits in Tony Gilroy’s semi-spin-off The Bourne Legacy, I was excited when the news came that Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon would be returning to the franchise.
Meanwhile, here are some of the most stunning moments from previous Bourne movies that left the fans mesmerised and asking for more.
Take a look as he chats with Paul Moore about his time in Dublin, being Bourne again and exacting some payback on his good friend Ben Affleck.
In many ways, “Jason Bourne” is the most unsettling movie in the series, seeing as it points to a vast conspiracy directed at the American people, and Greengrass’ style – rendered visceral via the marriage of Barry Ackroyd’s on-the-fly lensing, a tense techno score, and Rouse’s cutting-room trickery – lends itself nicely to an era in which shadow forces rely on such tools as satellite surveillance and facial-recognition software. When his old ally Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) tells Bourne his father may have been more deeply linked to the Central Intelligence Agency than he realises, Bourne’s pitted against Dewey and his protégée Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) in a continent-crossing bid to uncover the truth.
A production still from “Jason Bourne” with Matt Damon as the title character. Vikander does a good job with the sparse dialogue she has, and, ultimately straddling the line between goody and baddy, leaves the door open for sequels should there be any more. It’s also one of the rare movie trilogies to show big improvement each time out at the domestic box office, with The Bourne Identity earning $121.6 million, followed by The Bourne Supremacy’s $176.2 million and The Bourne Ultimatum’s $227 million. “The story is more emotional than a normal action movie, and so you end up with more investment in the characters”. Not only does it cannibalise its own past, the new film also echoes other action movies that reinvented themselves after the innovative feel of “The Bourne Identity” in 2002.
When push comes to shove, things come to blows between Jason Bourne and the poor, unfortunate chaps who cross his path. Or his fists.
“We pretty quickly ruled out the sort of “Bourne finds happiness” route”, Greengrass cracked. The plot of “Jason Bourne” jumps from city to city, and from auto chase to shootout, with the pitiless efficiency of the Asset, who leaves in his wake an nearly laughably large pile of bodies and upside-down vehicles. Perhaps less acrobatic overall and more of a bruising affair, both physically and, to a lesser extent, emotionally, while more brawny in its action, very little else has changed.
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“But the whole schedule for the movie was built around that sequence”.
