The movie "Jason Bourne" is one of the very few movies I can remember seeing where I thought it was going to be great and it wasn't. This movie is not really even that good and at best it's a stretch to call this movie even average. The entire film is mostly about one thing. Following Jason Bourne from city to city, building to building, alley to alley to cars, planes and then another new city where the CIA is able to find out his whereabouts using their sophisticated computers, face recognition software and cameras which seem to be everywhere in the world.
The movie opens up during some kind of a riot in a foreign country and Bourne is practicing his fighting skills competing in organized street fights. He then reunites with another CIA agency Nicki Parsons, played once again by Julia Stiles. Then for reasons not really explained they are both chased by other CIA agents trying to kill them and the quality of the night action is murky which is hard to follow because of the strange camera angles, darkness and too fast movement of the chasing of these two people in and out of dark alleys and streets. One can only wonder whether the producers meant to have the film look so bad in this part of the movie on purpose or it was just a very poorly shot action scene. The movie from this point on is just the camera following Bourne, played again by Matt Damon as he walks very quickly into and out of dark buildings and streets. The highly sophisticated fight scenes which were so great in all of the previous 3 films with Damon are missing in this version and what remains are shorter and more brutal fights without the high-level Karate skill that we all saw in the previous movies.
Alicia Vikander plays a new CIA agent for the first time and is one of the few bright spots in this movie where the lead character had almost no lines and had almost no real understandable or relatable story. Vikander has been in many movies lately, having recently won a Best Supporting Actress win for the "Danish Girl", which is also reviewed in this blog. She is an up an coming movie star who will have a long and great acting career ahead of her.
This film ends in the city of Las Vegas with a giant series of car crashes on a Las Vegas highway. Even this huge scene had its problems once again because of the darkness and the erratically moving camera. In the end, Bourne fans will gain some additional information about Bourne's past including his father and the possibility that maybe he will go back to the CIA in the future, clearly pointing to another movie in this series.
This movie is not that good because of all the reasons I mentioned and for that reason I cannot recommend it.
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