Jason Bourne : Movie Review


The return of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in the franchise's fifth installment got everyone's hopes up, especially after the let down that was Bourne Legacy. Unfortunately, it's another summer blockbuster that does not live up to the expectations.

 David Webb is dragged back into the world of shadowy government agencies and black ops and top notch killers when fellow former operative of Treadstone, Nicky Parsons comes to him with the idealistic ambition of leaking all the CIA's dirty secrets to the public. But she knows that Bourne has no interest in such ideals,  so she baits him with his one weakness, his desperate attempt to recall his past that haunts him every sinlge day.

And that's how the plot gets David Webb to come back as Jason Bourne and the CIA with its unlimited resources manages to track them down, which them becomes a cliche of chase sequences of the CIA being just one step behind. The plot is poorly explained, nor well developed, near predictable as the followers of the franchise know the strategic capabilities of Damon's character.

Tommy Lee Jones plays Robert Dewey, the new head of CIA and brings nothing exciting to the table with poor character development. The character who seems to have been brought in to pick up where Pam Landy left off, Head of CIA's cyber intelligence division, Heather Lee (played by Alicia Vikander) too does not get enough depth to be even remotely interesting. 

However, the biggest and most painful flaw was in the sequences where the film tries to explain what's happening on all the computer screens and the tech that is the core of the plot. The movies were supposed to seem smarter than the audience, but this time came across much dumber than the audience. In one scene, they actually show the character finding a folder named "Black Ops" in the CIA mainframe as if you would while browsing through your windows explorer program. Really guys?

The action sequences too failed to impress a fan of the franchise such as myself as they seemed to be remade and remixed with bits and pieces of the previous installments. The camerawork was classic Bourne, but with the lack of new, engaging chase sequence and action choreography, the angles and flow couldn't do much to hold my interest. A blend of Bourne, Bond, 'Fast & Furious' and 'The A-Team' the action scenes were all over the place.
Overall, I'd rate this film 3 out of 6 tacos. 

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