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Old 11-21-2021, 08:42 AM   #23842 (permalink)
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I enjoyed the first Bourne movie I saw, as it slowly reveals the effects of JB's special training, not only to us, but to Bourne himself. Plus an innocent girl who gets unwittingly swept up in a world of violent subterfuge.

This 2016 movie is a real disappointment, though. I would recommend giving it a miss:


The absence of any surprise, a rudimentary plot, cardboard cut-out characters and a shortage of ideas means that you find yourself watching, in glazed disinterest, variations of the same situation over and over again:
Agents zeroing in as JB uses a crowd scene as cover to make some essential rendezvous. Athens, Berlin, L.A., but the action sequence is identical: JB rushing purposefully through a crowd, agents lose his trail, despite shooting anyone who stands in their way etc.
Not just nonsense, but boring nonsense.
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