Captivate Entertainment, Double Negative, The Kennedy/Marshall Company,

Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, Scott Shepherd

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is still out there, and still on the run from the CIA and Director Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones). He’s got a friend in Agent Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) who downloaded all the secret files in order to expose the secret stuff that is going on. The files include the Treadstone Project of which Jason is a part. Turns out he has other connections to the project that he was certainly not aware of, so as the CIA sets off a worldwide manhunt to bring in Nicky, they hope to bring in Bourne at the same time. But he’s not likely to give up easily.

With James Bond regularity we get Bourne after Bourne after Bourne. I would love to say I hate these movies, but the truth is that I don’t. But there is a great difference between Jason Bourne and all the James Bond movies. Each of the Bond movies has a villain, often a new one with a new set of plans and plots. The main things stay the same with the agency, but they are always a fresh new story. Every Jason Bourne story has the same thing. It’s Matt Damon hiding out from the CIA and trying to keep one step ahead while they chase him and try to shut him down. The one trick pony is that he doesn’t know who he really is, or how he came to be. Each film builds a little on this premise, but they are all essentially the same story. This is my problem with them. Dang it, they action is good, and the special effects and chases are well done, and Matt Damon play the spy guy good enough, as well as Tommy Lee Jones playing the corrupt CIA chief, but essentially you could sit down and watch any one of this whole series, and to tell the truth, I don’t even remember how many of them there have been, and I don’t want to take the time to look it up. So unfortunately I can’t get too excited about this, and I start to wonder when they’re just going to stop it, or come up with a new plot. When a new Bond film comes out, I’m there first weekend to see the next series, but when another Bourne movie is released, I always decide to skip it and wait for the DVD. i end up watching it, and I end up enjoying the action, but it seems it’s just been dragging out a bit too much. There must be Bourne fans out there who are dying for the next one, and if you’re one of those, please comment and let me know why it’s so exciting to watch the same plot over and over again. It’s like watching Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsey. They’re fun, but they always are the same. Restaurant in trouble because owners don’t want to change. Ramsey eats their food which they think is great and it totally sucks which pisses them off entirely. They start out making changes, but the service runs terrible and the thing blows up and somebody wants to quit. Then they have a heart to heart, Ramsey changes their mind, and they come back and have a great service after Ramsey remodels the place. Every episode has been the same exact formula. Here, you’re going to see Bourne on the outside running for his life trying to stay one step ahead of the agency who are trying to kill him to shut him up. It’s a close call but he escapes and finds out a couple more bits of info on who he was. Then wait for the next one and repeat the same thing. For that reason, unless you really love the series, I don’t recommend wasting any more time on the same movie all over again.

EdG – EdsReview Dot Com – A Movie Review Blog

 

 

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rate this movie:
Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)

Leave a comment

Name: (Required)

eMail: (Required)

Website:

Comment: