Operation Outlook

Rating: 6/10 (13 October 2016)

Although the character of "Jason Bourne" (played by Matt Damon) doesn't appear in this film, the movie basically begins where "The Bourne Supremacy" left off with him having escaped from Moscow and subsequently providing top-secret information pertaining to "Operation Treadstone" to key officials. It's at this point that a new character by the name of "Aaron Cross" (Jeremy Renner) is introduced who is part of a similar (and equally sinister) CIA program called "Operation Outcome". As it so happens, Aaron is being punished for going off the grid for a few days by having to train in extreme winter conditions somewhere in a remote part of Alaska. What he doesn't know is that Operation Outcome has been compromised and in order to cover everything up the primary executive in charge named "Eric Boyer" (Edward Norton) has ordered the execution of everything and everyone involved. This results in the liquidation of several agents with Aaron and a female scientist named "Dr. Marta Shearing" (Rachel Weisz) being the only ones managing to elude their assassins. Unfortunately, Eric has other methods and resources at his disposal and he remains very intent on completing the task at hand. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that, despite shifting the focus away from Jason Bourne, this film still managed to make room for another sequel--with either Matt Damon or Jeremy Renner as the primary character-by cleverly side-stepping any major impediments to the overall course of events. On the flip side, I must admit that the chase scene at the end was much too long and improbable to be taken seriously and actually detracted from the movie as a whole. In any case, it was a decent addition to the Bourne Series and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.