Jason Bourne
2016
**½
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, Scott Shepherd, Bill Camp
In his third Bourne film with Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass brings the Bourne series to the age of Edward Snowden and Wikileaks. Other than that, absolutely nothing has changed since the duo bowed out with The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007. After laying low for years, Jason Bourne comes out of hiding. The CIA, with the exception of one cybersecurity specialist, is immediately out to assassinate him. They chase him through Athens, Berlin, London, and Las Vegas, with as much luck as before. It's incredible that this franchise can put out the same exact movie every few years with commercial success. While Greengrass and Damon were doing other projects, Tony Gilroy and Jeremy Renner filled the gap with The Bourne Legacy, which was - yes, that's right - exactly the same. On the plus side, the series still doesn't include any truly awful movies. On the down side, it hasn't offered one single surprise in years.
