Jason Bourne (2016)

Please don't spend money on this.

Best movie ever!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

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

I never wrote a movie review but somehow felt compelled after watching this and feeling what a waste of time it is to watch such rubbish. We have a real void in our lives that we try to fill by consuming all these movies that hollywood keeps rolling out. We spend billions of dollars to fuel this entertainment industry. Sure it's nice to see a great movie, but how many great movies are there really ? Pretty much the same stories are getting churned over and over. It even seems foolish or sad that we buy into all these make believe stories and spend so many hours of our time because we have nothing better to do. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else. But after watching this poor, poor movie I feel I really have to get a life. If anything I credit to this movie I would say that it is pretty amazing how they do these realistic looking action scenes where dozens of buildings and cars are destroyed in a place like Las Vegas. How they do it I don't know. If it's done on computers it's still amazing it looks so real.Thing is they can really do anything in movies and make it look realistic, but they rarely use this ability to present wonderful & meaningful stories. There's only so much you can be entertained by merely shooting & explosions. Hollywood has a serious creative void and pretty much all the great stories have already been told. Terminator for example, one of the all time great movies, and Back to the Future; the concept of time travel is wonderful and these movies did it great. But there's only so many times you can do it. DC's Legends of Tomorrow is cranking out a whole tv series based on time travel, and it's pretty ok but after seeing several episodes it gets to be a bore. Perhaps if you're a tv/movie junky you never get bored with all this stuff, but for me there's only so much I can take. And after seeing this Jason Bourne I just feel fed up with movies. The other Bourne movies were pretty good, but the only good thing about this last one is that it served as an awakening that I need to get a life. That goes for the vast majority of movies and tv, just a waste of life.Even some of the all time highest rated movies considered as classics like Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas, I don't get it. For me it's total rubbish. Yeah Goodfellas did a nice job portraying the old school Italian New York neighborhood, but otherwise just a bunch of profanity and violence. How great, how legendary. And our society just eats it up and basically glorifies criminals. And we wonder why our world is so violent. President Obama even gave an award to DeNero for such performances. Anyhow, enough ranting I just gotta give movie watching a rest and find something better to do.

An awful disappointment compared to The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, even The Bourne Ultimatum, which I thought was a tired retread with no heart. Legacy was also much better.Mr. Damon, you waited far too long.