“We love (Bourne) just as much as everybody else”, Damon says, “and we were leery of putting the cart before the horse and making another Bourne movie before we were ready with a good story-it was a case of waiting for the world to change a bit”.
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The wage Matt Damon earned from a movie job Tommy Lee Jones gave him allowed the actor to write his first hit film.
But they’re still impressively solid scenes nonetheless – particularly a climactic auto chase along the Vegas Strip – and definitely make the movie well worth a watch just as an action film in its own right.
He is living off the grid on the Greek-Albanian border and posing as a bare-knuckle brawler.
Riz Ahmed (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) Scott Shepherd (Bridge of Spies) and Ato Essandoh (Django Unchained) are among other newcomers installed as Central Intelligence Agency operatives, while Julia Stiles is once more Bourne’s ex-handler and confidant Nicky Parsons. She discovers a shocking secret and resolves to share the data with the elusive operative.
He spoke to Kate Rodger about what it took to come back to the Bourne fray, how lucky they were to get Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander on board for this sequel, and why Tommy Lee Jones is a national treasure.
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She dispatches a hitman, codename Asset (Vincent Cassel), to neutralise the targets. Jason Bourne is a deceptive slow burn for the opening half-hour, but once the script lights the fuse on manifold deceptions, there’s little time to breathe between plot revelations and bloodthirsty retribution.
