Review of Jason Bourne (2016) by Jenny C — 16 Aug 2016

I have no patience for this movie. Damon said after number 3 that any further Bourne movies should be called 'The Bourne Redundancy' and this film proves his point entirely. The strapline is 'You know his name' and it should add: '.

.. and you know every car chase, bike chase, rooftop chase, chasing chase of the chaseness because you've seen them all 100 times in every movie about anything remotely Bourney or Bondy or Mission:Impossibly.

' The WHOOOOLE film is just one LOOONNNNG chase and it's so dull. Bourne says, I think, 120 lines of dialogue in the entire thing, someone calculated, and so becomes even less relatable to and automaton-like than in the first three.

And not in a T2 scarifying-type way. Just in a dull relentless get the job done way. And the stooges that stand around are just all so bland, Vincent Cassell is serviceable as Bourne's foil, and Tommy Lee Jones has been widely praised for his craggy face.

If TLJ's craggy face is the most praiseworthy thing about a scene, you know you're in trouble. Derivative yawnfest and highly unrecommended.