Jason Bourne is back and kicks ass just as hard as he used to. Matt Damon returns as one of the most iconic characters of this century. It’s been nearly a decade since the last Jason Bourne film starring Matt Damon. He has returned and proves he still got it!

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Jason Bourne is back in every sense of the word, despite the franchise trying to go in a different direction with Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner. Matt Damon returned after nearly a decade since the last proper Jason Bourne film. The former C.I.A. operative is drawn out of hiding for nearly a decade after his past is finally revealed to him and he starts to understand what really happened.

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Matt Damon specifically wanted to do this film with director Paul Greengrass because he’s the one that did the first three and he handled them so well. Damon has said that he would likely do a f fifth Bourne movie as long as Paul greengrass’s in charge which I understand because the film’s come out so well with these two work together! One of the things I like most about this movie was the pacing – at no point in this sequel was I bored. I was so involved in the movie that I was just fully enjoying it. Not a minute felt wasted.

This was one of the best Jason Bourne movies we’ve had to date. Obviously, better than Bourne Legacy (starring Jeremy Renner, not Matt Damon) but i think it’s even better than Bourne Ultimatum.

Four Components To A Great Movie:

1. Does the movie entertain?

Jason Bourne (2016) is a fully entertaining follow-up to the Bourne franchise and I think that anybody who is interested in Matt Damon or Paul Greengrass (director) would thoroughly enjoy the fifth instalment in the series. Not only has the character Jason Bourne been a stable, iconic, heroic figure for the last decade & a half, but the anticipation of this exact sequel has been fuelling the excitement and the eventual entertainment once you’ve watched the film.

2. Does the movie introduce & answer plot points that are unique/interesting?

Well with a franchise that’s lasted as long as Bourne’s, clearly the movie is intended to explain some unanswered pieces of the plot – namely who is David Webb & why did Jason Bourne volunteer in the first place? I can’t say much more than that.

3. Does it make you think?

A great film should make you question everything it has shown you, but it should (hopefully) also make you think about the intended message. The film itself is meant to entertain, but it nearly always (if it’s a well-made film) has deeper meaning. I sternly believe that every good film should make you question society today, the interactions we have between each other and on top of that, it should make you wonder what exactly you just watched. Stanley Kubrick’s art form was in the details and in the extreme beauty of every single frame of his films, but his best creative quality was leaving the film to be interpreted by the audience in a sense. The first time people watched The Shining or 2001: A Space Odyssey in theatres, they left not entirely sure what had just happened. They had to think about what exactly Kubrick was trying to say with the film in it’s entirety. Another great 2 examples are Memento & Pulp Fiction, which both play out in reverse chronological order – meaning the events that are fist presented to the audience are not necessarily the events that took place first, in real time.

Paul Greengrass took the opportunity to make Jason Bourne (2016) showcase an incredibly growing concern for many which is technological privacy. Whether or not we actually have it, but as well, whether or not it will stay that way.

4. Have the characters grown from start to finish?

Character development is a very important concept of filmmaking. Making sure your audience knows who’s the protagonist (hero) and the antagonist (villain), straight from the start. But as well, it’s vital that the characters not only showcase what side their on, but to have depth & perhaps waver between good & evil, as well as change over the course of the film. Becoming an entirely different person between the first shot of them on screen & the last.