Director: Paul Greengrass Stars: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramrez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles.
From Athens to a climactic car chase on the Vegas strip, the film offers the glorious sight of stunt work at its most palpably exciting. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer. The jittery hand-held cameras shatter your nerves, and the truly special effects are mostly practical, not CGI. Miraculously, Greengrass and his ace cinematographer Barry Aykroyd ( The Hurt Locker) build a slam-bang spy game that plays like a you-are-there documentary. The result could be something “worse than Snowden.”Īs Bourne trots the globe - Athens, Berlin, London, Vegas - he’s tracked by Dewey’s lieutenant, Heather Lee (a stellar Alicia Vikander), and an assassin known only as the Asset (Vincent Cassel). But during an austerity riot in Greece, Bourne is contacted by former colleague Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) and learns that new CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones at his devilish best) is building his own shadow government with the help of compromised tech kingpin Aaron Kalloor ( a terrific Riz Ahmed of HBO’s The Night of). He picks up bare-knuckle fights to punish and be punished. Guilt eats at him for what he did as a government-built, $100 million killing machine.
To catch up: Bourne has most of his memory back, but lacks info on the CIA program that ended with the murder of his father.
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