The closing episode for the doubting Thomases

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2007)

A second film to finish up the job and clean up the plate which was a little bit encumbered with unfinished leftovers. So try to keep in place in your armchair because on the screen you are going to travel fast and far. Goa, Naples, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, a little in Paris, Moscow, London, New York City and Langley of course. The CIA is everywhere. The truth is slowly appearing but in a very fuzzy way. Hence Jason Bourne's job was to kill some Russian opposition politician, but opposition to whom? But that kind of truth must not come out because the killing robots are real genetically modified or at least (human?) beings psychologically, mentally and physically transformed by some treatment, and Jason Bourne, a persona that has no record anywhere, except in the CIA of course, is being tested in his potential, we are speaking here of course of his killing potential for his eventual use in some kind of undercover war. When it comes out, or at least may come out, Jason Bourne becomes the target again and the chase starts all over again. First he must be made solitary, so his girl friend is purely shot in his place by some Russian secret agent, and then the old politician behind the CIA is running the show with only one objective: to kill Jason Bourne, and anyone on his own side who would eventually come up with the idea that this is a cover up operation for something bigger. But then the film becomes slightly humdrum because it is a chase after a chase, and one more chase after another. Run run baby the end is definitely close at hand, a few bullets away, a few stunts away and that's all. And all that to come to the trick played twice on the woman semi boss and then boss of the CIA: talk to her on a cell phone or even fixed phone and reveal to her at the last second that he is in her back and could have killed her twenty times at least. Security they say and competence they add. A scam in a tumbler.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne