Jason Bourne (2016)

I don't get the hate for this film. It was fun, with plenty of cool fights and two absolutely incredible car chases (one in Greece and one in Las Vegas, where Matt Damon and Vincent Cassel practically demolish the Strip). Director Paul Greengrass's notorious shaky-cam shots were toned down substantially by my reckoning; I could always tell what was going on, and the direction was quite straightforward. If anything, THAT's the issue with "Jason Bourne": it's kinda plain, kind of "been there, done that." Absolutely nothing unique or original happens in terms of plot, and there even seems to be a bit of retconning going on in an effort to add more secrets to Bourne's past. There's a halfhearted attempt to add some metaphorical meat to this mostly empty-headed action romp by inserting actor Riz Ahmed into the proceedings; he's a Mark Zuckerberg-type who secretly received funding from CIA goon Tommy Lee Jones when his company was just a startup. This subplot ultimately goes nowhere, providing only a facile, skin-deep exploration of privacy and security themes that were explored far better in previous Bourne flicks (especially "The Bourne Ultimatum").I do agree with critics that Tommy Lee Jones's performance is listless and flat, even though it's possible that he's just trying to portray the character as calm and unperturbed under pressure. It's still disappointing, given the fantastic government spooks who have hounded Jason Bourne in previous movies: Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn. Those actors were giving it their all; hard to believe Tommy Lee Jones is here.Alicia Vikander is cool though, sorta-kinda taking Julia Stiles's place as the new young CIA upstart working to track Bourne down. I liked her performance a lot - supremely driven and confident. And Vincent Cassel plays the Asset, an expert assassin tasked with helping the CIA take Bourne down; he plays it straight, and perfectly sells his character as a remorseless killer.At the end of the day, this is an average action movie. It doesn't reinvent the wheel, and yeah - it's weaker than previous Bourne films. But it's hardly the travesty some people have made it out to be. If they do another one, the filmmakers would be wise to get really ambitious and do something truly original - not just with the action setpieces, but with the plot and story as well.

After detouring in the 4th movie, where we discovered that Jeremy Renner took super-hero pills, Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne, reluctantly taking on a CIA which is up to its old tricks again.Nicky Parsons, Bourne's old contact, finds him and tells him that the CIA are still running black ops operations like Treadstone. Though reluctant, Bourne is drawn back into the world he thought he had escaped, and finds himself pitted against Tommy Lee Jones as head of the CIA, Alicia Vikander as an ambitious rising star, and Vincent Cassel as a CIA "asset" with a grudge. Despite having Bourne discover some unknown aspects of his past, and despite there being an "is she/isn't she?" aspect to the political machinations of Alicia Vikander's character, there isn't actually a vast amount of plot here. But there is a huge amount of action, much of which is chase sequences - no great surprise there, as far as Greengrass on Bourne is concerned. And it must be said that Greengrass certainly knows how to choreograph a chase sequence - despite the ubiquitous jittercam, it is never difficult to follow what is going on during the chases: the geography of the chaser and chasee is always absolutely clear. If only other jittercam exponents would follow the example! I felt that the action had been deliberately softened, perhaps in order to get the film a more widely accessible certificate.Damon certainly dealt with the action well, but Bourne has already been on his voyage of discovery and was little more than a cipher here. Alicia Vikander, however, who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite actresses, brings a degree of duplicitous uncertainty to a character who is following her own highly uncertain agenda. And Tommy Lee Jones puts that wonderfully crumpled face to great use as a CIA director managing several difficult and challenging problems.I just wish there had been a bit more story and a bit less chasing.

Yes. I do agree. Mr.Greengrass is good at giving good decent action thrillers. However, as most observe that his two earlier Jason Bourne ( Boune ultimatum and Bourne Supremacy ) movies had the most annoying camera work ( the director of Photography Oliver Wood is obsessed handy cam which irritates our eyes). Therefore, I request Mr.Greengrass if he is going to make another action movie, please focus on the camera also. Ravi Chares.

It's the best film of Jason Bourne sequences, I especially like Heather Lee(Alicia Vikander), she perfectly portrayed a CIA cyber security specialist.