Jason Bourne (2016)
Country: GB/CHI/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed
Synopsis:
Bourne continues to have memory flashes while living on the run from improvised bare-knuckle matches. He is drawn back into the fight with his erstwhile kingpins when a former colleague feeds him information on a new black ops programme, but an existing field 'asset' has his own agenda to exploit.
Review:
Pretty much the mix as before, with a new villain in a suit (Jones), and a new ambiguous ally in the control room (Vikander). The plot involving backdoor access to citizens' homes via a new online media programme is a steal from Snowden, who is even name-checked along the way. Jones is as ever watchable, but has little else to do than look feral, Damon is as impassive as usual, give or take the odd face-to-face emote; it is left to Vikander to do most of the acting. But Greengrass knows that we are along for the ride, and does not disappoint with thrilling sequences in Athens and Las Vegas, though the human collateral damage in the latter is uncomfortably skated over as stationary traffic by SWAT vehicle.
Country: GB/CHI/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed
Synopsis:
Bourne continues to have memory flashes while living on the run from improvised bare-knuckle matches. He is drawn back into the fight with his erstwhile kingpins when a former colleague feeds him information on a new black ops programme, but an existing field 'asset' has his own agenda to exploit.
Review:
Pretty much the mix as before, with a new villain in a suit (Jones), and a new ambiguous ally in the control room (Vikander). The plot involving backdoor access to citizens' homes via a new online media programme is a steal from Snowden, who is even name-checked along the way. Jones is as ever watchable, but has little else to do than look feral, Damon is as impassive as usual, give or take the odd face-to-face emote; it is left to Vikander to do most of the acting. But Greengrass knows that we are along for the ride, and does not disappoint with thrilling sequences in Athens and Las Vegas, though the human collateral damage in the latter is uncomfortably skated over as stationary traffic by SWAT vehicle.
Country: GB/CHI/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed
Synopsis:
Bourne continues to have memory flashes while living on the run from improvised bare-knuckle matches. He is drawn back into the fight with his erstwhile kingpins when a former colleague feeds him information on a new black ops programme, but an existing field 'asset' has his own agenda to exploit.
Review:
Pretty much the mix as before, with a new villain in a suit (Jones), and a new ambiguous ally in the control room (Vikander). The plot involving backdoor access to citizens' homes via a new online media programme is a steal from Snowden, who is even name-checked along the way. Jones is as ever watchable, but has little else to do than look feral, Damon is as impassive as usual, give or take the odd face-to-face emote; it is left to Vikander to do most of the acting. But Greengrass knows that we are along for the ride, and does not disappoint with thrilling sequences in Athens and Las Vegas, though the human collateral damage in the latter is uncomfortably skated over as stationary traffic by SWAT vehicle.