Jason Bourne (2016)

The CIA's most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past.

Director:

Paul Greengrass

Writers:

Paul Greengrass, Christopher Rouse

Stars:

Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander

3 wins & 20 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Matt Damon	...	Jason Bourne
Tommy Lee Jones	...	CIA Director Robert Dewey
Alicia Vikander	...	Heather Lee
Vincent Cassel	...	Asset
Julia Stiles	...	Nicky Parsons
Riz Ahmed	...	Aaron Kalloor
Ato Essandoh	...	Craig Jeffers
Scott Shepherd	...	Director NI Edwin Russell
Bill Camp	...	Malcolm Smith
Vinzenz Kiefer	...	Christian Dassault
Stephen Kunken	...	Baumen
Ben Stylianou	...	Greek Van Driver
Kaya Yuzuki	...	Hacker
Matthew O'Neill	...	Lead Hub Tech (as Matthew O'Neil)
Lizzie Phillips	...	Cyber Hub Tech

Storyline

Jason Bourne is again being hunted by the CIA. It begins when Nicky Parsons a former CIA operative who helped Bourne, who went under and now works with a man who's a whistle blower and is out to expose the CIA's black ops. Nicky hacks into the CIA and downloads everything on all their Black Ops, including Treadstone which Bourne was a part of. And Heather Lee, a CIA agent, discovers the hack and brings it to the attention of CIA Director Dewey, the man behind the Black Ops. He orders Parsons be found and, hopefully, Bourne, too.

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Plot Keywords:

assassin | swat | computer cracker | riot | riot police | 

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Taglines:

Matt Damon is Bourne again

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief strong language

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Deep Dream campus, shown in the film, is a digitally modified version of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Although the exterior is heavily modified, an unaltered shot of Building 20 can be seen in the right of the shot.

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Goofs

When landing in Las Vegas, the IP address to which Heather connects (using ssh) is shown as 199.256.08.21, which is an impossible address as values are only allowed from 0 to 255. Also, when the address is echoed by the ssh program, the "08" should either be shown as "8" or "008", and in the latter case "21" should be "021".

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jason Bourne: [voice over] I remember. I remember everything.

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Connections

Referenced in Midnight Screenings: Jason Bourne/Bad Moms (2016)

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Soundtracks

Extreme Ways (Jason Bourne)
Written, Produced and Performed by Moby
Orchestra Arranged & Conducted by Joseph Trapanese

User Reviews

This is a good dish of leftovers

Jason Bourne wants so hard to believe in its own supremacy, forces an ultimatum of thrills and spills, but ultimately lacks identity.

The original trilogy still stands out as one of the most intelligent post-Cold War spy action thrillers and it mostly succeeded in being the last word in the genre. Its huge success and relevance also gave the Bond franchise a big wake-up call. Amnesia-assassin Bourne is the real thang!

So 9 years later, Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon decided it is opportune time to inject a dose of Bourne-adrenaline and his extreme ways into us. The only problem is that instead of innovation and reinvention, it serves up last night's fried rice paradise. One shouldn't mess with paradise! Greengrass regurgitates out plot points from the three predecessors. From Operation Threadstone to Operation Blackbriar, we get yet another black-ops organisation called Ironhand that wants to stay hidden and will whack anyone to Kingdom Come to prevent its knowledge from getting out. It once again exploits Bourne's amnesia as he glimpses yet another piece of his jigsaw mind-puzzle. We get the same old CIA foggies uttering "Where's Bourne?" and everyone wearing pained expressions as Bourne evades everyone in Athens, Berlin, London and Las Vegas. We get yet again a woman who thinks she know best but Alicia Vikander has none of the gravitas of Joan Allen because she is too young to be convincing.

The screenplay does offer up an promising post-Snowden scenario but it still feels a little too familiar. These issues aside the movie is still a pulsating ride. The pace is relentless and Damon's taciturn Bourne still represents a driving force of reckoning. The spycraft and action set-pieces ooze uber-coolness and you will want to see it again just to catch how they did it. However I have one major complaint - I absolutely abhor the schizophrenic editing and jumpy hand-held shots. The camera never stays still for more than two seconds for you to marvel at the fight choreography and the vehicle mayhem-chases. In my book, hand-held shots coupled with split-second cuts are the cheapest type of cheat codes in action thrillers. With these type of cinematic trickery anybody can be a martial arts exponent and a world-class spy. No class.

This is a good dish of leftovers. It may harken you back to the days of the original trilogy but it never truly pushes the character to a new frontier re-examining his psychological state. In the end, a dish of leftovers will still serve its purpose, especially when you are famished.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA China Spain

Language:

English Greek German Japanese

Release Date:

29 July 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Untitled Matt Damon/Bourne Sequel

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$120,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$59,215,365, 31 July 2016

Gross USA:

$162,434,410

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$415,484,914

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Perfect World Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

123 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos Datasat 12-Track Digital Sound Dolby Digital Auro 11.1 (only in China) DTS (DTS: X)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1