Review of Jason Bourne (2016) by Mrsouffle — 05 Aug 2016

Everything about this movie, besides its production value, felt phoned in. This movie felt like a direct-to-DVD sequel that somehow got the green light as a major film. The silver lining is that I laughed a lot.

The hacking scenes were clearly written by people who couldn't even be bothered to Google what hacking is like (actual line: "Use SQL to corrupt their database!"); the motivations for every character were paper-thin; the car chase ventured into Fast & Furious territory without being nearly as imaginative and self-aware as those films.

Many of the performances, from normally-capable actors, even felt wooden, like nobody's heart was in it. It also felt like they took shaky-cam to a whole new level, but maybe I'm just getting old. I loved the Bourne trilogy; I mildly enjoyed Legacy.

This movie was surprisingly and hilariously bad.