
When “Jason Bourne” is done, ask yourself Rarely has there been so much intensity in the pursuit of a There's a much better version of "Jason Bourne" that focuses on him, contrasting his arc as a man caught up in something greater than himself with our hero's.Īhmed registers because one senses an urgency to his character’s plight, which is not the case with the He subtly plays a successful businessman who knows the skeletons are about toįall out of his closet. Only Riz Ahmed makesĪny impact on a performance level, doing a lot with very little-watch the way Isn’t allowed to really break out until the end of the film. Cassel does most of his acting scowling through a sniper scope, and Perhaps worst of all, Greengrassįinds a way to waste Vincent Cassel, one of our most physically vibrant and Tommy Lee Jones feels even less invested with the little bit of character he’s been given, and poor Alicia Vikander might as well be named Plot Device in that we know exactly what herĪrc is going to be from the minute we see her. Damon can be a complex, character-driven actor with the right Like the story that we set out to tell is has now been told.” He clearly stillįeels that way.

Reconfiguration, you know, where do you go from there? For me I kind of feel There was to be another one then it would have to be a complete Internal propulsive mechanism that drives the character is not there, so if Iteration of Jason Bourne was over he had reached the end point of hisĬharacter’s journey, his search for his identity. Matt Damon said in a press conference in 2007 that he thought his Greatest hot button concerns-internet privacy, government intrusion-but they feel like window dressing. “Jason Bourne” includes several of today’s That Dewey is particularly panicked about the return of Bourne is that he’sĪlso deeply involved with a tech pioneer named Aaron Kalloor ( Riz Ahmed,Ĭurrently seen on HBO's “ The Night Of”), the head of a company called Deep Dream that promises intense levels of privacy to its customers but has been working ( Vincent Cassel) to keep his undercover dealings undercover. Of course, Dewey can’t let that happen, and he plans to useĬIA agent Heather Lee ( Alicia Vikander) and an assassin known merely as “Asset” Happened to Bourne’s father, Richard Webb ( Gregg Henry).

Nicky wants to give Bourne even more of the backgroundīehind the Treadstone project, particularly the details about what really The nefarious Powers That Be, this time personified by CIA Director Robertĭewey ( Tommy Lee Jones). Mere minutes before Nicky ( Julia Stiles) drags Bourne back on the radar of Interested in setting up where Bourne has been and what he’s up to in 2016.) It’s Noting that Greengrass and co-writer Christopher Rouse are just barely Guy with no current attachments, deeply off the grid. Sure, he pops up for the occasional street fight, but he’s a loner, the kind of To superspy Jason Bourne in the previous two Greengrass films and, of course,ĭoug Liman’s “ The Bourne Identity,” JB (Matt Damon) is essentially in hiding. After learning the truth of his progression from David Webb
