Jason Bourne

 

Last night I ventured out to the 5^th Bourne movie and 4^th starring Matt Damon.  This one finds Bourne actually off the grid after he jumped in the East River being a fighter.  He’s not really doing great in life, moving around a lot but is off the radar till returning character Nicky (Julia Stiles – um where has she been?) seemingly goes from drinking coffee and reading to hacking the CIA, and thanks to that Bourne is back on the grid.  Tommy Lee Jones, along with an asset and a new Cyber Director try to take them out.  Chaos ensues in Berlin and Vegas.  

The action scenes were great Bourne scenes, what you expect to see from Bourne movies.  I would have liked to see more development into why Nicky was hacking the CIA.  She seemed content at the end of the 3^rd one.  Tommy Lee Jones was really good too as a CIA Director and the new gal as the Cyber director, was really good and they moved somewhat on with her development and seems to be where they will set up the sequel. 

I do wish they would have done a few things differently, like mentioned  with Nicky before.  If they are planning another trilogy, I was hopeful for different outcomes for the main antagonists….and it would have been a nice tie in to somewhere see Jeremy Renner’s character intertwined somewhere.  Maybe that comes in the next flick?

Overall this was a not a bad summer popcorn escape movie, but it doesn’t hold to the previous Damon Bourne flix.  6/10 Stars