Matt also talks about what motivates Bourne in the new film and how events have changed the character in unexpected ways. In the movie, a woman from the past will established a link to Bourne’s past especially his father. Right from the start, that familiar music begins to play, as soon as things get going, that non-stop beat that fans know all so well, scoring virtually every moment of the film, keeping the tension throughout, driving us forward through any lull in action, not allowing the audience to rest for a single solitary second. I did enjoy parts of this film.
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Overall, “Jason Bourne” earns its PG-13 rating, and I’m going to go with the MPAA on this one and give a general age recommendation of 13 and older for this latest installment. The fifth installment in the popular spy-thriller franchise about an amnesiac Central Intelligence Agency assassin, Jason Bourne supposedly deals with such topical issues as cybersecurity and civil unrest, but the characters’ motivations for inflicting damage to people and property seem entirely personal.
While the action is exciting, the camera movement during these scenes can be a bit all over the place. Two set-pieces are standouts, a rendezvous in the midst of a riot in the flame-ravaged back lots of Greece and auto chase on a neon-lit Las Vegas freeway. Alicia Vikander has a central role as his protege.
Dewey’s been making inroads in Silicon Valley to that end, particularly with social media company founder and tech rock star Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), who would like to keep his deals with the government secret. If they meant to have Bourne still feel a tug to the assassin’s life, they apparently forgot to tell Matt Damon. Director Doug Liman was ultimately replaced due to disagreements with the studio on the first film, and Damon and director Paul Greengrass subsequently made two more films.
It takes a special kind of film actor to make a performance like this work, and Mr Damon certainly fits that bill.
Last time around it was the Damon-less The Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner in 2012.
Alicia Vikander, the Swedish-born star of Jason Bourne, has a “spirited” connection to Seattle.
The actor, coming off his Oscar-nominated lead performance past year in The Martian, returns to his signature role, the title character in Jason Bourne. It’s emotionless, predictable, generic, anticlimactic, and the adventures seem to be wearing thin.
The plan to eliminate Bourne sparks a series of realistic high-speed chases and hand-to-hand combat sequences in a cinematic era dominated by CGI – the vehicle chase through the Las Vegas strip may be one of the better ones I’ve seen without blatant use of computer animation – while Bourne hunts for the truth about his origins and who killed his father.
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Bourne’s internal struggle that fuels him to uncover the truth is done well, but the other three main stories just don’t cut it. “I could make decisions with absolutely no thought to what the potential box office was”, Damon says. 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. Approximate running time: 123 minutes.
