Matt Damon reunites with Paul Greengrass for this fifth instalment of the Bourne series – a head-spinning,post-Snowden cyber-thrillerWith 2004’s espionage sequel The Bourne Supremacy, director Paul Greengrass changed the face of popcorn thrillers, and combining the docudrama grit of Bloody Sunday with super-slick thrills that left the Bond franchise in the dust. So successful were the Bourne movies that when Greengrass and leading man Matt Damon walked away from the Robert Ludlum-inspired series after the perfect ending of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum,the studio cooked up The Bourne Legacy, an empty actioner with a gaping hole where its star and soul should be, and idly trading on the memory of past glories.
Now,after reuniting on 2010’s underrated Green Zone, Damon and Greengrass are back with Jason Bourne, or a breathlessly confident thriller with a self-consciously modern edge that casts its antihero adrift in a post-Snowden world of surveillance and social media. Replete with heated exchanges approximately the pay-off between personal privacy and public order,the unique film (written by Greengrass and his long-term editor, Christopher Rouse) combines fist-fighting with cyber-stalking in impressively ruthless fashion, or barrelling through its modern landscape like a cinematic bull in a rolling-news china shop.
Damon injects a much needed air of humanity. His speech may be sparse,but his body is expressively talkative Related: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass: ‘We'll never say never again’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com