The action is good, with a car chase through the streets of Las Vegas a particular stand-out.
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But she spends most of the movie staring at computer screens, explaining the information on them, and barking orders to others though an earpiece, only truly coming into her own at the movie’s end. Vikander’s Lee is the most interesting of the newcomers, her blank, unemotional delivery making it hard to get a read on the character. But his ‘Asset’ barely distinguishes himself from the trained killers that Clive Owen, Karl Urban and Edgar Ramirez played in Bournes one, two and three. And there are few more interesting actors than Vincent Cassel onscreen. But his Dewey is really not all that different to the CIA suits that Brian Cox and Chris Cooper played in previous instalments. Tommy Lee Jones delivers the irate, no-nonsense performance that Tommy Lee Jones always delivers, barking lines like “We cut the head off this thing” in a way that only Tommy Lee Jones can. The locations are exotic, from Berlin and Reykjavik to London and Las Vegas, but watching the title character dash through airports and train stations in those cities inspires a definite sense of déjà vu. The Bourne films have always rallied against unchecked power, and this conspiracy concerns the kind of direct threat to civil liberties that’s frequently in the news these days.īut it’s just about all that’s new and fresh in Jason Bourne, with much of the film feeling all-too-familiar.
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This plot strand brings the series into the twenty-first century, allowing Greengrass and co-screenwriter/long-time collaborator Christopher Rouse to question where we’re at in a post-Snowden, post-Wikileaks world. He’s big on safety and security online, preaching that “privacy is freedom,” but there’s more to Deep Dream than meets the eye, and his story soon becomes inextricably linked with Bourne’s. Tech billionaire Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed) is another new addition – the Zuckerberg-like founder and CEO of social network Deep Dream Corporation. Key players in this operation include CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones), a gruff veteran who clearly knows more about Bourne’s past than he’s letting on, Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) head of the Agency’s cyber division, who uses tech to counter her opponent’s smarts, and ‘The Asset’ (Vincent Cassel), an assassin as skilled as Bourne in the art of killing. And so we’re back into classic Bourne territory, with our hero’s efforts to learn yet more about his past juxtaposed with the CIA’s struggle to once again either bring him in or take him out. The pair meet in Athens during protests outside the Greek Parliament, but they are being watched, prompting the film’s first action sequence – an exciting if somewhat overlong chase through the middle of a riot, filmed using the series’ trademark shaky-cam that lends authenticity to scenes while at the same time stirring nausea. Sometime ally Nicky Parsons (Julia Styles) has also been in hiding, working as a hacker in an effort to finish the work that Bourne started, and having ruffled the feathers of people in some very high places, she desperately needs his help. Exposing his corrupt employers doesn’t seem to have brought Bourne any peace – does it ever in these circumstances? – and he’s still living off the grid, channelling his anger and rage into work as a very efficient bare-knuckle boxer. Following a brief re-cap in which we witness David Webb volunteering for that special ops program, becoming Bourne, losing his memory, and then embarking on a one-man crusade as that memory returns, we are re-introduced to the man himself, and he cuts a forlorn figure. And while the resulting feature doesn’t quite do the latter, it also fails to fully achieve the former, with this belated sequel an entertaining action film that's nevertheless somewhat inferior to its predecessors. In doing so, they run the risk of potentially ruining their own Bourne legacy however. But now Damon and writer-director Paul Greengrass – who helmed the previous two pictures – are returning to the fray nearly a decade on to re-invigorate the franchise and maybe make a few bucks in the process.
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