Jason Bourne is an entirely unnecessary movie sequel.
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“While I’m marching around with objective, they’re kind of narrating what it is I’m thinking as the story goes along”, Damon said.
The Bourne Trilogy might be one of the best action movie franchises of all time, but who the hell can remember all the details unless they read the books? We were lucky to get her. Everybody, understandably, wants her to be in their movie right now. That topical subtext is the best thing about “Jason Bourne”, but the unattractive appearance of the film undercuts, rather than serves, the theme. According to the timeframe established in that movie, it was at the end of 2004. It would’ve all ended so quietly forever. Once the new program is activated-one developed by a global power structure more intricate and duplicitous than in the period of superpowers from which Bourne was created-he is flushed out of hiding by an instantly malleable network that is more unsafe than any individual government.
Matt has since been cast in movies like Syriana, Invictus, and Adjustment Bureau. And, sensibly, everyone involved has chosen to ignore 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, an unnecessary attempt to continue the franchise with Jeremy Renner standing in for Damon’s magnetic title character. Dealing with the Asset is sort of a bonus, yielding a reckless vehicle chase that feels particularly insensitive in the wake of this month’s terror atrocity in Nice.
“Jason has been on the margins and he is desperate, running out of road, and more anguished”, Matt added about his role. The action skips from Iceland to Berlin to London to Washington, D.C., taking a stunning detour through a massive, impressively staged protest in Greece.
Is Damon too good of an actor to be returning to action roles he did far earlier in his career? And Jason Bourne’s own plot just blandly repeats this one short flashback over and over again about a family member whom Jason can’t actually remember ever speaking to, but who was apparently so damned important that nobody ever thought to mention him until the fifth movie in this series.
“We had the kids with us it was lovely”, he said.
“We like each movies to feel like it’s the time of the year that it is made”, Matt said. Heather Lee, played by Alicia Vikander, is also quite tiresome and her reasons for teaming up with Bourne appear very vague and sudden.
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Following mid-July premiere screenings in the UK, France and USA, Jason Bourne follows on from a July 27 debut in the UK, Ireland, South Korea and the Philippines with worldwide openings throughout the week: from July 28 in Brazil, Hong Kong, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore and more, and from July 29 in the United States and Canada, Spain, Vietnam and others.
