Jason Bourne

the bourme ultimatum was my favourite movie of the year back when it came out. it was an exhilarating tense action thriller that blew me away. the series just got better and better (with damon) so it is no surprise i had very high hopes for jason bourne. what a disappointment. i remember damon and greengrass saying that they would only return to the franchise if they had a story good enough to do so as they felt they had completed the saga. this is the story they felt was worthy of a return? this story is what they chose? this one? i had two problems with this story. first, and most read more

like a parody of itself, it's all shaky cam, constant jarring cuts, convenient plot developments (recycled from the previous movies too), unexplained contrivances, yet again all about bourne's discovering who he is/was, and "it's personal". i enjoyed the original trilogy, but that one had an actual story. this exists solely because the attempt to reboot the franchise failed. there aren't even good action scenes because everything is cut away from way too quickly. the establishing shots of everything was so much predictable, perfunctory exotic locale porn. very, very formulaic. using the read more