The release of Jason Bourne is definitely a very fortunate event for the series that have now broken out of its trilogy with a fourth movie.
I had the pleasure of watching this movie a week after its release and I was so pleased with what I have seen.
For starters the movie maintained the same old soundtrack. Given the fact this installment is being released around 9 years after the release of "The Bourne Ultimatum" which released back in 2007, the use of the soundtrack felt nostalgic. For a moment there I felt like the music was familiar totally forgetting the fact it had to be the good old Bourne soundtrack. And when I realized it was it just added to the excitement of watching this movie.
The new installment to the Bourne movies and I repeat is a fortunate release for the trilogy cause it takes away the effects of the bad experience that watching the wannabe Bourne movie, "The Bourne Legacy" was. The Bourne Legacy which released in 2012 had some of the elements and even some of the characters from the Bourne Trilogy but not all of them and definitely not Matt Damon's talent. And yes Jeremy Renner might be a good edition to the Mission Impossible movies and probably a great one to the Avengers and Marvel movies in general but he is no Bourne and definitely no Matt Damon.
The new Bourne movie as usual has the same elements of action and suspense. But one of the most beautiful things about it were the newly introduced characters played by Tommy Lee Jones and Vincent Cassel who played what I might say the worst two villains in the Bourne movies so far.
Alicia Vikander whom I have only ever watched in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." was also one hell of an edition to the movie. She does deliver a great performance. One of the best things about her role in the movie is that while she seems to sympathize was Jason Bourne, the story does not take her in the usual direction of falling in love with the main character, something that would have turned the movie into a rather painful joke of a screenplay.
As usual Matt Damon's performance was great throughout. His facial expressions as usual moved so fast between totally lost Bourne, to remembering fragments Bourne and of course extremely angry Bourne.
The movie is totally worth watching and I am glad that Jeremy Renner's "The Bourne Legacy" wasn't the last movie to bear the name Bourne cause that makes for a very bad memory to the title.
Watch it. It's worth it. I say an 8 out of 10 is in order for this movie.
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