Jason Bourne

Go to Film reviews Star Trek Beyond go to Home page	Jason Bourne opens with him in Greece at an illegal fight club ring. To him he is just surviving and laying low. This is how he puts it to Nikki Parsons who comes to him after she hacked into the CIA black-ops files and downloaded them. They meet in Athens as she asks his help to help expose the CIA. Jason Bourne wants none of this and says to her that her working in that hacking community could get her killed. Of course that is what happens to her. She gets killed by a CIA assassin as Jason Bourne is trying to escape with her. Jason Bourne still takes a look at the files as from what Nikki told him it has information about Treadstone, the CIA black-ops program he use to work in. This leads him into a cat and mouse game with the CIA as one of the CIA cyber team when learning of the hack slips in a malware program that can track anyone who uses the information. The action is good. The film keeps you interesting in what is going on with the characters and their situation. There is the motorbike chase in Greece where Jason Bourne is trying to escape with Nikki. This chase keeps the audience interested in whether Nikki and Jason will survive with the information. Though nothing compares to the chase Jason Bourne has with the assassin who killed his father with Jason Bourne in a car and the assassin in a SWAT car. It was mayhem with SWAT car occasionally crushing near by cars. Characters overall were a disappointment. Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon does not change throughout the film so there was very little character development for him. Heather Lee played by Alicia Vikander looks like a promising character. She believes she can bring Bourne in much to the angst of the CIA direct Dewey. On the other hand when she spends time with Bourne she promises that things will change in the agency and you want to believe her but at the end of the film she either will bring Bourne in or take him down. Robert Dewey played by Tommy Lee Jones is not unlike any of predecessors in the previous Bourne franchise. He wants Bourne dead as he sees him as a danger to the organisation. Overall I did not enjoy the film. The reason is because nothing really changes in the 2 hours. Yes Bourne gets more of his memory back but the CIA has not been changed. The film shows no clue on how you can stop intelligence agencies from acting the way they do. Yes the film has some relevance to real world problems. As an extra part of the plot Dewey has his hands on funding a new social media program called Deep dream which was part of the black-ops material Nikki downloaded called Iron Hand. This is the CIA comprising the program so they have can have a back door into the program their obvious excuse so they can stop terrorists. This is not a new concept the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the real world want back doors into the social media programs for the reason I stated. So like I stated in Jason Bourne the enemy which is the CIA has not changed so at the end of the film the audience may feel disappointed that there is no end.

Jason Bourne opens with him in Greece at an illegal fight club ring. To him he is just surviving and laying low. This is how he puts it to Nikki Parsons who comes to him after she hacked into the CIA black-ops files and downloaded them. They meet in Athens as she asks his help to help expose the CIA. Jason Bourne wants none of this and says to her that her working in that hacking community could get her killed. Of course that is what happens to her. She gets killed by a CIA assassin as Jason Bourne is trying to escape with her. Jason Bourne still takes a look at the files as from what Nikki told him it has information about Treadstone, the CIA black-ops program he use to work in. This leads him into a cat and mouse game with the CIA as one of the CIA cyber team when learning of the hack slips in a malware program that can track anyone who uses the information.

The action is good. The film keeps you interesting in what is going on with the characters and their situation. There is the motorbike chase in Greece where Jason Bourne is trying to escape with Nikki. This chase keeps the audience interested in whether Nikki and Jason will survive with the information. Though nothing compares to the chase Jason Bourne has with the assassin who killed his father with Jason Bourne in a car and the assassin in a SWAT car. It was mayhem with SWAT car occasionally crushing near by cars.

Characters overall were a disappointment. Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon does not change throughout the film so there was very little character development for him. Heather Lee played by Alicia Vikander looks like a promising character. She believes she can bring Bourne in much to the angst of the CIA direct Dewey. On the other hand when she spends time with Bourne she promises that things will change in the agency and you want to believe her but at the end of the film she either will bring Bourne in or take him down. Robert Dewey played by Tommy Lee Jones is not unlike any of predecessors in the previous Bourne franchise. He wants Bourne dead as he sees him as a danger to the organisation.

Overall I did not enjoy the film. The reason is because nothing really changes in the 2 hours. Yes Bourne gets more of his memory back but the CIA has not been changed. The film shows no clue on how you can stop intelligence agencies from acting the way they do. Yes the film has some relevance to real world problems. As an extra part of the plot Dewey has his hands on funding a new social media program called Deep dream which was part of the black-ops material Nikki downloaded called Iron Hand. This is the CIA comprising the program so they have can have a back door into the program their obvious excuse so they can stop terrorists. This is not a new concept the CIA and other intelligence agencies in the real world want back doors into the social media programs for the reason I stated. So like I stated in Jason Bourne the enemy which is the CIA has not changed so at the end of the film the audience may feel disappointed that there is no end.

Jason Bourne

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