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Film Review: Jason Bourne
By Rouén Robinson
Aug 8, 2016 - 1:55:58 PM
You Know His Name...
A
former operative for a covert organization is drawn out of the shadows
when new information about his past is uncovered. To find the full
extent of the truth, he must search the ranks of the organization which
leads to a new conspiracy he unwittingly sowed the seeds for.
David
Webb is the former CIA assassin known as Jason Bourne who disappeared
after publicizing details of the CIA’s assassination programs but has
come out of hiding to gain new info on his past. Heather Lee is the head
of the CIA Cyber Ops Division who has made Bourne her priority after
his former contact Nicolette Parsons hacks the CIA to gain classified
files. The Asset is an assassin working for the current CIA
assassination program after the previous program was exposed and he was
collateral damage, but now he has the chance to get his revenge on those
responsible. Robert Dewey is the current director of the CIA and head
of the Iron Hand program who wants Webb taken down for exposing the
Blackbriar program.
Jason
Bourne is currently the most boring action movie you will have to sit
through this year. If you have ever heard the expression skinny fat
(thin with no muscle tone) then this movie is smart dumb (using buzz
words without knowing the meaning) as it tries to convince you it is the
thinking man’s action movie. I must express the fact that this motion
picture has some great action scenes that will have you on the edge of
your seat, but to get to them you have to sit through scenes that make
you want to sleep. It was cool seeing Matt Damon and Julia Stiles
playing David Webb & Nicky Parsons, yet it was bittersweet as the
story they were a part of became a muddled mess of cliched spy movie
dogma. Paul Greengrass does some good work directing the action in this
movie, but it feels dated as it fails to build on the techniques he
established in his last two Bourne flicks. This movie is a solid entry
into the espionage genre, but falls flat on its face as an entry into
the Bourne franchise.
I rate this movie a 2 out of 5.
In Theaters
See other reviews by Rouén HERE.
Rouén Robinson has been an
avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures
for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for
The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F
LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen
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