Jason Bourne

Movie number 5 and the final instalment in the Bourne franchise. This time again with Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. After many years we find Jason back hiding at the outskirts of the EU in Greece making money in street fights. He is approached by Nicky Parsons who has discovered secrets about his past while hacking the CIA. As a result of the hack the CIA hunts down Parsons and Bourne and after 3 movies we know how that will go. The movie serves high paced action with the hunted Bourne taking the fight back to the CIA as before. The action, including fight scenes and car chases never make it a dull view but in terms of originality the movie is a step back from the original trilogy. It serves many themes seen before in a slightly different version. It also tries to answer a few more questions not answered in the previous movies but nothing fundamental. Like the previous movies this one is also a paranoid adrenaline shot so certainly worth watching but it lacks the novelty the original trilogy had. Vincent Cassel and Tommy Lee Jones are nice as the CIA über villains that personify the ‘the end justifies the means’ philosophy and there is a Mark Zuckerberg type that is running a social media company with a mix of traits from Apple and Facebook that is at the heart of the next black ops surveillance program of the CIA which brings the story into the present. We get to see a bit of Europe with Athens, Berlin and London and the final chapter of the movie takes place in Las Vegas with a car chase causing the ultimate mayhem and destruction of vehicles. In this particular aspect the movie does outdo its predecessors.