The second movie of our second movie marathon day yesterday was this action packed film. I was a fan of the Bourne series which I think was quite exceptional for an old fashion action movies with short hand combat, gun shooting and wild car chases. After the 3 original series where Matt Damon starred, the 4th installment was having a different star to play, i.e. Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy). In this 5th one, Matt Dammon reprised his role as the former CIA assassin. So what was the story all about now? Let's get on with it, shall we?
Brief Story Line
After years of the event from The Bourne Ultimatum, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon - Elysium, The Martian etc) was now hiding in the dark in Greece and became a street fighter to get money for survival. He never seemed to lost his touch though. Meanwhile Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles - 10 Things I Hate about You, Monalisa Smiles, etc) the former CIA operative hacked into CIA server from Iceland to access some of the old CIA data from previous Black Ops. Her intention was to exposed what she believed as CIA's wrongdoings in the past. If you have watched the previous Bourne movies, perhaps you would be familiar with the names of the operations, i.e Treadstone (where Bourne was recruited) and Blackbriar which was the follow up to Treadstone and exposed earlier. A new operation code after Blackbriar was Ironhand.
While looking into Treadstone files, Nicky noticed that Bourne (previously David Webb) had been under surveillance even before recruited and that his father Richard Webb (Gregg Henry - Guardians of the Galaxy) might have some part in the program. The hacking was found out by the CIA cyber ops head Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander - Seventh Son, The Man from U.N.C.L.E) and her director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones - Men In Black etc). Nicky escaped from Iceland and arrange to meet with Bourne in Greece to inform him about her findings. During a big demonstration in Athens, where they were supposed to meet, Heather, Dewey and the rest of the CIA team already setup teams in place to capture them. After very tense scenes of running on foot plus car and motor cycle chase involving Dewey's "thug" called the Asset (Vincent Cassel - Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen etc), finally Bourne escaped to Berlin.
Bourne was able to decrypt the data she got from Nicky and started to get flashbacks of the last day he met with his father. Based on this data, he would look for Smith who was the operative involved in Treadstone program. He had retired and lived in London now, so Bourne went to London after escaping another attempt of his capture by CIA.
In the CIA headquarters, Heather recommended to Russel, Director of National Intelligence that Jason Bourne might still be useful and she believed he can be brought back to work for CIA, despite the disapproval of Dewey. Russel agreed to this suggestion and gave Heather the lead for the operation to convince Bourne. If she was unsuccessful, the Asset would kill Bourne.
So can Bourne be convinced to return to CIA? What was the history of Bourne that he was trying to find out? And why does Dewey insisted on killing him? What was Ironhand project and its relation with Deep Dream application? Find them all in this exciting, over the top action 2 hours movie
End of Brief Story Line
Wow, this movie I think was the best in the 5 installments of Bourne series. The movie was fast paced, full of intense scenes and the action sequence were just crazy. The special effects of the action scenes in the end were great and it would definitely strap you to your seats. Even my wife could not let herself go to toilet as she was worried she might miss important scenes.
The sound effect were outstanding. All the bullets flying around and those amazing car & motor chases sounds were amazing. The background music was also very good and definitely added the element of tense. In almost every scenes, there would be the feeling of rush which I think was due to the music.
For those of you who had not seen any of Bourne movies, might be feeling a little bit loss of what the story is. But if you do not want to spend hours to watch the previous 4 films, and if you do not mind a little bit of confusion in the beginning part, then maybe you can still enjoy the movie.
As an action movie fan, I totally feel this is a top quality one. This is a highly recommended movie. Ooh and if you happen to really buy tickets to see this, I suggest you try to have seats at around the back. There were a lot of scenes where the cameras were not standing still and following the actions around which I think would be better seen from further up rather than from middle seats.
If they really are making another sequel to this one (yes, the ending did give impression that they can still make it), I would definitely be watching it.
Mike's movie moments rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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