The fourth Bourne movie (or fifth if you count the turkey with Jeremy Renner) has all the ingredients: Matt Damon, propulsive action, palpable tension, well-choreographed and executed chase and fight scenes, Paul Greengrass in the director’s chair, and Alicia Vikander to boot. But at heart this is a self-conscious replica movie that offers very little new. Missing is the emotional grounding that made the previous films so engrossing on more than a mere action level. And it can’t shake a certain greatest-hits aspect or the suspicion that it exists largely because we like watching Damon be Bourne. Enough. (123 min)
Don Morton
Don Morton has viewed some 6,000 movies, frequently awake. A bachelor and avid cyclist, he currently divides his time between Tokyo and a high-tech 4WD super-camper somewhere in North America.You may also like
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