![]() ![]() ![]() It's breathtakingly inefficient pacing for a series that has defined itself by its efficiency.īefore I get carried away with complaining, I should probably foreground this part: there's nothing necessarily wrong with Jason Bourne, and there are at least a couple of things right. All the stylistic extravagance that marked out the Greengrass Bournes as both famous and infamous has been toned down so much that when it appears it has the distinct feeling of just going through the motions, and the sense of constant undying momentum that defined those films as well as the franchise-initiating The Bourne Identity in 2002 has been scaled far, far back in favor of momentum-flattening sequences where we sit in as nefarious CIA types plot their wickedness in somewhat more detail than we need. The consensus around Jason Bourne has quickly emerged that it's disappointing because it's just more of the same: that director Paul Greengrass has retrenched to simply copying his own The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum from 12 and 9 years ago, respectively, and is doing nothing new. ![]()
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