The additions of Tommy Lee Jones as Central Intelligence Agency director Robert Dewey and Alicia Vikander as Central Intelligence Agency cyber specialist Heather Lee inject some much needed new juice, and for the duration we’re never quite sure whose side either is on.
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“I’m 45 now and I would tell any 45-year-old guy-to all the guys out there who are wondering-I will tell you it’s not worth it at all”, Damon said. The Bourne Legacy in 2012 involved Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross and took place after Bourne’s escape in Russian Federation during The Bourne Supremacy back in 2004.
“You Know His Name”, the poster for Jason Bourne says. Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon reunited to resurrect the beloved character which they had brought to screen together two times before in The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum. When an old ally returns to the fold with information about his past, along with a revelation about his father, Bourne is active once again.
Damon made it emphatically clear after “The Bourne Ultimatum” in 2007 that he was done with this series and wanted nothing more to do with Jason Bourne.
The second – taking place during the flabby and overlong third act – involves Bourne and Asset going the wrong way down the Las Vegas strip in a SWAT tank thingy and a muscle vehicle that, even by exaggerated action flick standards, is impossible to swallow. But at the same time they’re incomprehensible – half the time you can’t be sure who or what you’re looking at. Now Damon is back, though, and with a vengeance for Jason Bourne.
Greengrass and Damon provide everything that audiences have come to expect and want from this franchise.
Well, you get the picture.
While appearing on Today to promote the latest installment of the Bourne franchise, Jason Bourne, the Oscar victor expressed his excitement in taking a small hiatus from the silver screen. Mr. Damon, for his part, is as subdued as ever. He is no doubt less of a fan of any fast food chicken establishments.
And this is what the Bourne series really needed. “It’s worse than Snowden”, Agent Jeffers (Ato Essandoh) barks at his boss, CIA Director Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones).
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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. But just how successful has Damon been throughout the course of his full career? Last year’s Academy Award nomination for his role in “The Martian” proved that. We want the travel porn, for one thing, and we get it here, touching down in London, Berlin, New York and Athens (where there’s a delirious sequence with Bourne and Parsons being hunted through the uproar of a political demonstration by an agency assassin, played with grim charisma by Vincent Cassel).
