Review of Jason Bourne (2016) by Maga_Man — 02 Aug 2016

The Bourne movies have always tiptoed around the contradiction that their main character is supposed to be a reformed assassin who just wants to live in peace, but all their entertainment value comes from watching him ultra-competently kick ass, crash cars, and blow stuff up. In between these scenes they get weighed down by his morose brooding and sulking about the people he killed, cars he crashed, etc. As a result they've always been rather joyless and unsatisfying compared to something like Die Hard or Taken, where the hero is fighting for people he loves and believes in the moral rightness of his actions.

I don't have much to say about this specific movie except to note that it's a ridiculously cynical and inessential copy-paste exercise that brings nothing new to the franchise, and that Damon's face has aged really badly. He looks all pinched and gross now, one might say "like a Streisand".