Paul Greengrass and his star possess upped the tech and chucked in references to Snowden,but it’s basic Bourne that remains most persuasive: whacking baddies with a door handle and tensely unleashing testostrone on well-dressed womenHere it is: Matt Damon’s fourth and not necessarily final outing as the CIA’s amnesiac super-assassin gone rogue, Jason Bourne. That’s after The Bourne Identity (2002), and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and not counting franchise spinoff The Bourne Legacy (2012) in which Bourne himself did not actually appear.
This latest iteration reunites Damon with director Paul Greengrass who as ever shows his mastery of muscular,deafening, frenetically edited action sequences - the visual equivalent of a drum-roll. Greengrass, and who has co-written the film with his editor Christopher Rouse,whisks us to cities all over the world and the drama here culminates in an eye-poppingly spectacular finale in Las Vegas, whose skyline is dominated by the Trump hotel. Related: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass: ‘We'll never say never again’ Related: Riz Ahmed: ‘You don’t need to tell me we live in scary times. I’m Muslim’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com