Jason Bourne

Plot synopsis:
The film starts with a brief recap of David Webb (Matt Damon) when he first joined Treadstone, going into his training to become an assassin and into his new life as the Jason Bourne. After exposing Blackbriar (in 'The Bourne Ultimatum'), Bourne has been hiding out in Greece for the past eight years. He engages in hand-to-hand combat with other men as a bare-knuckle fighter to make a living. One man he takes on gets knocked out in one punch.In Iceland, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) goes to a secure location with other hackers and whistleblowers. She gets into the CIA's mainframe servers and uploads a virus onto it. Simultaneously in Langley at CIA headquarters, Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander), the head of the Cyber Ops Division, sees what's going on and reports it to her superiors. As Heather tries to fix the problem, Nicky discovers classified files on the CIA's programs, starting with Treadstone. It contains previously unknown information regarding Bourne, as well as his father, Richard Webb (Gregg Henry). It turns out that the CIA has been trying to keep surveillance on Bourne. Nicky gets what she needs and burns the evidence.Meanwhile, Heather speaks to CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) about the situation. They discover that this involves Bourne. Dewey fears that Bourne could jeopardize their latest program, Ironhand. He contacts a former Blackbriar operative known only as The Asset (Vincent Cassel). He holds a personal grudge against Bourne, considering him a traitor for leaving the program and outing their actions to the world. Dewey orders The Asset to go after Bourne. He agrees, then goes back to killing his previous target.Nicky finds Bourne in Greece as people are rioting in the streets. She informs him of what she's found out and how she can help him. The Asset finds both of them and sets up his rifle to kill them. Bourne takes a motorcycle and rides away with Nicky down the streets. They don't get far as The Asset's bullet strikes Nicky, causing them to swerve and hit a wall, leaving Nicky in the street. Bourne crawls away to try and cover her. He barely makes a move, and The Asset hits Nicky with a fatal bullet, but not before she tosses Bourne a key. Nicky dies, and Bourne is left with regret.The next scene shows a convention being held for a program called Deep Dream, with its founder Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed) being one of the main guests to speak. Deep Dream is meant to be a social media program intended to give consumers the utmost privacy in their activities and businesses, but Kalloor has been secretly working with Dewey and the CIA. Dewey wants to use Deep Dream for surveillance purposes through Ironhand, which Kalloor is not comfortable with.Bourne takes the key to a train station where he finds a safe box containing more classified information. He travels to Berlin to meet with Nicky's former associate Christian Dassault (Vinzenz Kiefer). With Christian's help, Bourne views files that reveal that his father had been involved with the CIA and Treadstone. This triggers memories in Bourne's head on the last day that he saw Richard. He claimed that he had to leave his son to take care of something. Before he finds out anything else, Bourne is forced to flee once again when Christian attempts to kill him, but Bourne subdues him and escapes from the building and away from another CIA team after Heather sends him a text tipping him off to the arrival of the CIA team.Heather talks her superiors into letting her speak to Bourne so that she can personally bring him in. Dewey hopes to use whatever Bourne has just learned into having him return to the program.Bourne goes to London and meets with a former CIA agent/Treadstone associate named Malcolm Smith (Bill Camp). Heather and some of her operatives are nearby in Paddingston Square, while The Asset is moving in on Bourne. From Smith, Bourne learns that he was under surveillance for recruitment after Richard decided to abandon Treadstone and expose the CIA's dealings. Richard was killed, with his death set up to look like a terrorist attack and being the incentive for Bourne to join in the first place. Soon, The Asset starts to go after Bourne. The Asset shoots and kills Smith, and Bourne flees. Bourne recognizes The Asset as his father's true killer.Bourne disappears into the crowd, but Heather finds him. She wants to help him get rid of Dewey, even though her reason is so she can take his job. Heather helps Bourne get past immigration to their next stop.A convention is held in Las Vegas for Deep Dream, with Dewey and Kalloor being the main guests. The Asset is getting ready to kill Kalloor, as Dewey had planned since Kalloor intends to expose Ironhand. Bourne finds The Asset and intervenes. Kalloor gets shot, but non-fatally. Bourne moves on to find Dewey and confront him for all the lies that he's been fed. Dewey says Bourne won't find peace until he admits to himself who he really is. Dewey is about to shoot Bourne, but Heather arrives and shoots Dewey dead.Bourne pursues The Asset as the villain hijacks a police van. The police follow the van while Bourne takes his own path to track down The Asset. A chase ensues down the Vegas strip, with The Asset plowing through a number of cars on the street. Bourne drives fast and high enough to slam into the van. The Asset runs for it, but Bourne corners him in a tunnel. They engage in a brutal fight, ending with Bourne breaking The Asset's neck.Kalloor recovers from his wound and continues to do his work, and he is more than likely going to blow the lid off Ironhand's work.In Washington, Heather meets with the Deputy Director to discuss what Dewey had done, as well as the opportunity to start anew, with her being promoted to his former position. She still intends to bring Bourne in herself. Heather meets with Bourne and tries to talk him into going with her, but he instead tells her he will think about it. When Heather goes back to her car, she finds a recorder that shows Bourne filmed her whole conversation with the Deputy Director, leaving her pissed.In the final shot, Bourne walks away down through the park as the song "Extreme Ways" plays over the end credits.

Tags: revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
Even fight scenes and car chases from all previous had a different "feel" than typical action films, but formula made these redundant and confusing, not fun like others.
Paul Greengrass does yet another sterling job at directing some hugely exciting action sequences (including a thrilling chase in Athens that harks back to Ultimatum's Tangier chase), and in tandem with yet another excellent performance by Matt Damon as Jason Bourne himself, the action is definitely the best part of this film.Where the story lacks, Jason Bourne more often than not gives you some insane action to revel at.
It's not a Michael Bay movie, and Greengrass' style lends a lot to making more vibrant action sequences, but there's no doubt that fans of big action will love this film.On the whole, I did enjoy this film, and I was able to recognise its flaws and just watch it as a big blockbuster.
However, I can't escape feeling disappointed at the film's total failure to tell as intriguing a story as the first three films in the series.The enthralling mysteries and gradual revelations about Jason Bourne's past were what really separated this series from any other spy thriller.
Unfortunately, it's that that makes Jason Bourne look pale in comparison to the original trilogy, and those who are expecting yet another engrossing and intelligent thriller will certainly be disappointed.That said, there are bright moments in the story too.
What's more is that Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander and Tommy Lee Jones all put in very strong performances to add a degree of gravitas to what is in truth a very clichéd and repetitive story, which was good to see.Overall, I am disappointed by Jason Bourne, in that it doesn't manage to tell such an enthralling and intelligent mystery as the series' original trilogy, but its top-quality action and strong directing and performances still allowed me to have a lot of fun for two hours..
"The Bourne Identity"was one of the best action movies I had seen at the time and it really made an impression on me.
The movie has a solid cast(Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander), good plot, not so good script, no cliché lines, great action/visual effects, it has common sense and it does not defy logic like most action movies do.
While the story at the heart of the movie really isn't that bad, benching the main character certainly did a number on it.Tommy lee Jones and Alicia Vikander have far more screen time than Damon does.
Matt Damon had stated that he would not do a new Bourne unless the story was there and after seeing the movie I'm left wondering what he saw in this script.
It's shaking real good.IT IS SO BAD THE DIRECTOR HAS THE ACTORS TELL YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD BE SEEING WITH YOUR OWN EYES!TRAIN STATION: Random frames of blurry objects.CIA HQ CONTROL ROOM FILLED WITH VIDEO MONITORS - TOMMY LEE JONES: What's happening?CIA TECH: The agent is down!CIA TLJ: Send another team!TRAIN STATION: Sounds of fighting.
Matt Damon and Julia Stiles are the only actor and actress from the original trilogy to reprise their roles as Jason Bourne and Nicky Parsons, respectively.
Greengrass became a great director of action and thriller movies, such as United 93 , Green Zone , and Captain Phillips .The Ludlum's novel have also spawned a television series and several more books ; other films of this exciting saga are the followings : First TV recounting 1998 ' The Bourney identity' with Richard Chamberlain , Jaclyn Smith .
And a spin-off : The Bourney Legacy¨ with Jeremy Renner , Rachel Weisz , in which the deeds in this film take place at the same time during the events in the previous movie "The Bourne Ultimatum", thus making this picture a peculiar continuing to the Bourne trilogy , here an undercover agent and a Doctor are pursued around the world in a relentless chase .
These new, but useless camera tricks don't make it better action movie, they detract from what actually makes the Bourne series good.
If you are fan to the series, you should wait for Blu-ray to watch it.Poor fight choreography and shaky action camera ruined this movie for me..
The camera-work is quite blurry,and dizzying at times.The action scenes are the greatest pro,especially the car chase in Las Vegas.Damon delivers a good performance but Alicia Vikander steals the show.Tommy Lee Jones is good to see too,nice to see that he is undertaking action films even at such an old age.The locations were chosen quite wisely.On the downside,character development is kept to a minimum.There is a half-hearted attempt to tackle the timely topic of government surveillance versus citizen privacy.No scene lingers for more than 5 seconds.I give this film a 7.While it does not match up to the original trilogy,it succeeds as a fun time at the movies..
first off I couldn't wait to see this movie,just love seasoned actors like Matt Damon and Tommy Lee,this movie had great potential the writing wasn't bad the story line kind of followed the original trilogy some of the actors acted a bit robotic, but the thing that really ruined for me and the people with me was the extremely bad camera men and the over use of extreme close ups and the shaking of the camera.
plot was weak I was looking forward to a great movie didn't happen If Matt had played in the 4th one and stopped there or either put more thought and effort into a better story with less hand held shots then it would be OK but not the case I bought all the all 4 on disc I wont be buying this one.to post a review you have to write 10 lines I ran out of stuff to say but I wanted to post this because I.ve been a Bourne fan up till now very disappointed.
There was good action and it seemed like a movie as a homage to all the bourne series lovers.
Matt Damon just walked around looking serious and mad, Tommy Lee Jones was the best in this movie because he's just doing what he does best (pretty lazy, but it's Tommy lee), Alicia Vikander was trying to hard with her accent and it felt fake to me, and every other character was just as plain and boring as everyone else.The fight scenes in the beginning are hard to follow, Greengrass shakes the camera to damn much, I know its apart of the franchise, but the shaky cam was done better in the previous movies, and I hated having to squint my eyes just so I could see what was happening in this movie.
The only fight scene I gravitated towards was at the end, it was hard hitting, white knuckled, intense, the fight choreography was exceptional, and the camera didn't shake as much.I thought the reason why Borune was brought back made sense, but the way it was executed just seemed tired and lazy, it should've been more compelling, heart wrenching even, but I felt like the story was just casually going through the motions with no real effort, so ultimately I felt disappointed, and so after awhile I just didn't care anymore.The action scenes are completely forgettable, there's no tension, and I didn't feel worried for anybody's safety (not even Bourne).
The last action scene was great, but when I thought about it, it really didn't make any logical sense.The movie was predictable, it tried to surprise the audience, but I felt like it was trying way to hard to be clever.Overall, Jason Bourne is a boring movie.
The plot of this latest BOURNE movie is terrible; even if it was good you wouldn't know it as the camera is always shaking so you can't focus on the story.
Thanks to YouTube,i suddenly got to know that a Bourne movie is coming and Matt Damon is coming back as Jason.
Why because Jason Bourne (2016) is connected to events which takes place in the first 3 movies ( Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum).Coming to the Story and Plot of this movie, It follows the similar pattern of CIA, Hacks, Surveillance, Assassins, Fist-Fights, Thrilling Chase Sequences and much more elements which anyone would expect in a Bourne Movie, but the movie keeps you in the Edge Of the Seat till the last moment as this time Bourne is not only evading death, running away from the people who made him a Ruthless Killer and recollecting his past.This time he seeks answers for why, for whom and for what he was recruited to become Jason Bourne from David Webb which also involves Jason more personally this time as stakes are raised a little high this time.The movie begins from Serbian-Albanian Border,travels across Virginia, Athens, Berlin, London and Las Vegas.
Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles reprising her role as Nicky Parsons perform their duties well to make sure that Bourne and the Movie are going places.
The latest addition is Vincent Cassel who now takes avatar as an Assassin tailing on Bourne to close the case.Coming to the Technical Aspects of the movie, Kudos to the Cinematography and Background Score departments as they combine to give the adrenaline feel for this movie be it in Crucial Moments, Action Sequences and most of all the Stunt/Chase sequences.Anyone would be Entertained and Enthralled while viewing the Thrilling/Nail-Biting Chase Sequences which takes place in Athens/Greece.
This shaky cam is beyond annoying it's terrible, when the movie ended i started to have a headache.Many many quick-cuts in almost every scene, very weak action.Lack of characters development the story is predictable makes overall a very boring movie.
Matt Damon returns to the franchise that made him an action star, Jason Bourne follows the eponymous character on a revenge flick where he discovers something personal about his life that lead him to the man he is today.
Overall, i highly enjoyed "Jason Bourne" for involving and clearly told story, superb craftsmanship of the movie, very good action sequences and the ending left me wishing for more.
Matt Damon is back as the titular character in Paul Greengrass' latest movie 'Jason Bourne'.
This time Bourne is brought back into the world of espionage to discover the secrets of his past while trying to avoid being caught by the CIA.The movie basically starts of with one of the best action sequences I've seen this year.
This time though the agent is a very stereotypical bad guy who has no problem killing civilians and other people of the law.In the end 'Jason Bourne' is a very mediocre action movie.
Damon returns to the saga of action films playing Jason Bourne, and Julia Stiles (The Silver Linings Playbook), Dexter, The Prophecy) also repeats her role in the franchise as Nicky Parsons.
In a Snowdenesque opening, rogue agent Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) is in Reykjavik hacking into the CIAs database of black ops files and uncovers materials that allow Bourne to regress to memories before he was indoctrinated to become the one-man fighting machine: memories that come very close to home and hearth.For Bourne is still a tortured soul in this film, drifting from country to country off the grid and making cash by flooring opponents cock-fighting style in bare knuckle fights.By being contacted by Parsons, Bourne appears on the radar of ambitious CIA cyber-intelligence officer Heather (#ratherboringname) Lee (Alicia Vikander) and new CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones).
Tommy Lee Jones - an actor who has always had too much skin for his face, now going into overdrive with age - is also superb, and as they spend much of their screen time together, the combo is compelling.But most people go to see Bourne for the action, and again the film doesn't disappoint, with a sequence set round Paddington being particularly thrilling and a Vegas-set car chase to die for (literally if you were unfortunate to be driving the strip that night!).
Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed and Vincent Cassel round out the supporting cast just fine.While there's plenty of action sequences which are a staple for the Bourne series, Jason Bourne seems to focus on the action and I felt that the spirit of the original trilogy was missed with the intelligent story lines which made all three of the original movies very memorable when first released and to this day all three movies have earned a spot in my list of favourite movies of all time.
I was personally looking forward to the continuation of the Bourne Supremacy, but this film has left me with a bad taste in the mouth and I honestly think it was a waste of my time.The good Action packed, car chase, fighting, shooting & explosions.
I'm big fan of the Jason Bourne series from 2002 (Identity) to 2004 (Supremacy) to the Ultimatum (2007), but this latest film is clearly one too many.
A trilogy that was superb, a fourth that was somewhat different but still intriguing and this one, where Matt Damon returned as Jason Bourne and Paul Greengrass as the director.
Now many might think this film lacks and that there is no story line what so ever, but this film is all about bringing him in, because Bourne is still very much threatening the agency everyday he is still out in the cold, sometimes the films we watch tend to lack somewhere in the sequels as they need to express the story behind the main character more so viewers get the fuller picture, and this is very much what they have done here, yes the plot could be better but so can be said for every single film, not just Bourne films, but this is still better than your Bond movies, and its still packing a deadly punch with very fast action scenes, great performances from new actors, and even more car & motor bike chase for which we know Bourne is good at showing us his skills as a rogue operative, you would think as the film went on over the 2hours that he was close to biting the bullet even more in this film that any other.
From there, the hunt begins!It's kind of like the 'Mission Impossible' and 'Bond' films now, in that if it isn't broke, don't fix it - it's comfortable getting back in touch with the characters and hand-held camerawork that Greengrass uses as Bourne goes around efficiently dismantling the "bad guys" - which usually turn out to be rouge CIA operatives.
Heather (Vikander) is the up-and-coming CIA cyber-expert and does well to keep you guessing who's side she's actually on.The fight scenes are fast and furious, the score is great - always pounding away in the background, so you feel like there's never any respite, which there isn't for Bourne - they tick off about six countries, there's an interesting debate on security vs privacy in the digital age, and best of all, the cars chases are exceptional - shot from all different angles, plenty of destruction everywhere and no CGI to be seen!
Paul Greengrass does a fine job of directing, though there's some dizzying hand-held camera action that may or may not affect you adversely.Good performances by Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, and, of course Matt Damon, looking quite buff.The story could and should have been stronger, but as pure entertainment, it's great.
I found myself literally holding my breath throughout the whole sequence.Jason Bourne lives up to Ultimatum's incredibly high standard as an brilliantly directed, surprisingly emotional action thriller that I will remember as one of 2016's best movies.10/10.
And you also felt this disappointment when you saw "The Bourne Legacy", it just felt like movie made just to be added the Bourne name to it, and laugh all the way to the bank.It wasn't really a bad movie, but it was far from reaching the standards we had grown custom to from the original trilogy.Ever since i saw "The Bourne Ultimatum", i wanted a new Bourne film with Matt Damon.
(Greengrass who made "The Bourne Ultimatum" into one of the finest and best action films of all time.
None the less, Jason Bourne is still entertaining as Matt Damon is back and still great in the role.The plot seems rehashed and there does at times feel as if there are some silly moments.
Out of the blue and into the black, the Bourne franchise gets another entry by the successful partnership Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass after two movies - Doug Liman commanded the first film.
They got back Damon, Greengrass, Julia Stiles and Christopher Rouse (editor from previous films and now working as a writer here) and the result was "Jason Bourne", you know how things go: fast-paced action, awesome car chases, plot filled with twists, lots of Kung-Fu or Jeet Kune do fighting styles where the camera and the editing ruins the whole thing....but the dramatic arc is always interesting.
However, this entry was the lowest in the series - at one time, I was really disappointing with "The Bourne Supremacy" - which by the way, this film has plenty of similar plot points and it's almost a copy - but I gave a second chance and end up liking it.
At first we don't like Matt Damon but after watching The Bourne Identity,he became one of our favorite actors of the world..
"Why would he come back now?" CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones)"He" is of course Jason Bourne, super spy, and the actor, Matt Damon, comes back to the franchise for at least the chance to work with action director Paul Greengrass and make multiple million dollars.