Jason Bourne: Movie Review
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Jason Bourne: Movie Review

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Jason Bourne: Movie Review
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The Bourne series is back with their newest release in the film series, "Jason Bourne." It's the classic Bourne movie: jumpy camera work, a lot of car chases and intense fight scenes and an ambiguity that comes with being a fan of Jason Bourne.

**SPOILER ALERT**

The plot doesn't stray from the classic Bourne movies from the past. Essentially, Bourne is being hunted by the CIA director, Robert Dewey, and his right hand men/women, but Bourne just trying to live a peaceful life that's under the radar. He reconnects with Nicky Parsons, who gives him valuable information on his past, but while trying to evade some CIA agents, she's KIA. Bourne then travels to London to get information on his past, but it comes at a price. Bourne kills a few CIA agents and because of this, he goes to Las Vegas to confront the CIA director face to face. He eventually meets the director, who wants him dead, but Dewey is the one that's killed. The movie ends with Bourne walking around Washington, D.C. showing that he's escaped the CIA — for now, at least.

One thing that felt off with this movie was the involvement with a corporation called Deep Dream. We don't really know what this product is, but we do know that Dewey and the director of Deep Dream, Aaron Kalloor, are secretly partners. I would tell you more about it, but that's just it: we don't find out more about it. To me, it seemed like a way to create more ambiguity in the story and to give more substance to the movie.

I briefly mentioned the camera work earlier, but that's something that has been constant throughout the Bourne series, even when Jeremy Renner replaced Matt Damon in the lead role. It gives viewers the feeling that they're a fly on the wall, or even a fly that's zipping through punches or car chases. For some viewers, it can be a little much in the sense that they feel like there's too much going on. But for others, myself in particular, I felt like I was in the middle of the action, and it kept the movie more realistic and compelling.

In all honesty, there wasn't anything special about this movie. I have seen the other four movies before this one, and they're all really the same thing. Bourne ends up living and evading the CIA, something that was no surprise to me. Bourne gets beat up a lot, but never gets killed or even really put in any serious danger. Like every movie, Bourne gets away and seems to fall off of the grid at the end of the movie, just like every other Bourne movie.

All in all, it was a decent film; not great, but not what I had hoped for. I thought there would be something different to it, but there wasn't really. They brought back the things we love about the Bourne series, like the fight scenes and camera work, but there wasn't anything that separated this movie from the others, in my opinion. 5/10.

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