It’s all a bunch of gobbledygook, and Jason Bourne’s goofy-ass plot devices are knotted a bit too tightly.
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He explained: “We try to not be apart for two weeks”.
Bullets and bloodshed abound, as “Jason Bourne” throws its titular character into the familiar territory of vehicle chases and fistfights. The chance to watch a great star at the peak of his powers, see him display the pain in this guy’s heart, and the torment in his soul is enough to make anyone recommend and want to see “Jason Bourne”.
It’s been nine years since “The Bourne Ultimatum”, but the franchise based on Robert Ludlum’s novels has kept spinning. You start to feel as exhausted and beaten up as Damon’s Bourne looks. The back up plan is to have him killed. Alongside him is Paul Greengrass, director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum”, who takes charge of this diverting but underwhelming chapter of the “Bourne” saga.
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He finally gets close to learning the truth about the project when Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), his fellow operative from the earlier installments, downloads all the relevant files onto a flash drive with the intention of putting them online.
A satisfying return to the franchise, without exceeding its predecessors, Jason Bourne has the requisite amount of action, tension, realism and story expansion for a thrilling good time. “My guess is it will be a while before we’d get around to doing another one”. Her character is similar to Pamela Landy, the Joan Allen character in previous entries, who sadly doesn’t return. The nefarious Central Intelligence Agency director (Tommy Lee Jones, craggier than ever) wants Bourne eliminated, and his hired French assassin (Vincent Cassel, appropriately wolfish) is just the man to do it. It’s a completely unoriginal, one-dimensional character that Jones manages to infuse with his personality.
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There’s also classic action, like big auto chases. It’s very hard to follow exactly which vehicle just hit another vehicle and the blurred camera footage is likely to give a few audience members a headache. As she begins tracking the duo, Bourne finds himself back in action battling a sinister network that utilizes terror and technology to maintain unchecked power.
