Jason Bourne

Director: Paul Greengrass Paul Greengrass

Overview

Years after the events of The Bourne Ultimatum, former CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) resurfaces just as his former employers are implementing a new program aimed at hunting him down. Now fully recovered from his amnesia, Bourne teams up with Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) to uncover the truth behind his father's death, while simultaneously exacting revenge and evading the government forces hot on his trail. Paul Greengrass returns to helm this sequel, which co-stars Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Riz Ahmed, and Vincent Cassel.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/06/2016
UPC:	0025192257605
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:04:00
Sales rank:	3,508

Special Features

Bringing back Matt Damon as Bourne; Bare-knuckle boxing; Close quarters combat; Underground rumble; The Athens escape; Convention chaos; Shutting down the Las Vegas Strip

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matt Damon	Jason Bourne
Tommy Lee Jones	CIA Director Robert Dewey
Alicia Vikander	Heather Lee
Vincent Cassel	Asset
Julia Stiles	Nicky Parsons
Riz Ahmed	Actor
Ato Essandoh	Craig Jeffers
Scott Shepherd	Actor
Bill Camp	Malcolm Smith
Vinzenz Kiefer	Christian Dassault
Stephen Kunken	Bauman
Ben Stylianou	Greek Van Driver
Kaya Yuzuki	Hacker
Matthew O'Neill	Actor
Lizzie Phillips	Actor
Paris Stangl	Athens Alpha Agent
Matt Blair	Hub Tech
Amy DeBhrun	Hub Tech
Akie Kotabe	Hub Tech
Robin Crouch	Hub Tech
Joe Kennard	Athens Bravo Agent
Miguel Alves-Khan	Athens Bravo Agent
Gregg Henry	Richard Webb
Robert Stanton	Government Lawyer
Duran Fulton Brown	London Alpha Agent,Las Vegas Police
Charles Jarman	London Bravo Agent
Jay Vincent Diaz	Immigration Officer
Jorge Luis Alvarez	Las Vegas Event Organizer
Frank Roskowski	Loading Dock Security
Johnny Cicco	Bradley Samuels
Martin Daniel Latham	Dewey's CIA Agent
Trevor White	Actor
Sasha Larkin	Las Vegas Police
Stuart Jeffrey Cram	Las Vegas Vendor
Brian Duda	Las Vegas Security Guard
Alexander Cooper	City Worker
Daniel Eghan	Bare-knucke fight spectator
Attila G. Kerekes	City Worker
John Heartstone	CIA Agent (Cyberhub)
Kornelia Horvath	City Worker
Neil Alexander Smith	Bare-knuckle Fight Punter
Neve Gachev	CIA Agent
Michael Haydon	City Worker
Marla Aaron Wapner	DC Diner
Vivian Yoon Lee	Executive Assistant (Deep Dream)
Stephanie McIntyre	Conventioneer
Emeson Nwolie	Businessman
Franka Potente	Actor
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	Actor
Clive Owen	Actor
Orso Maria Guerrini	Actor
Tim Dutton	Actor
Denis Braccini	Actor
Nicky Naude	Actor
Eric Moreau	Actor
Jimmy Jean-Louis	Actor
Lizzie Philips	Cyber Hub Tech
James Dormuth	CIA Security Detail
Nicky Naudé	Castel
Demetri Goritsas	Com Tech
Russel Levy	Manheim
Anthony Green	Security Chief
Hubert Saint-Macary	Morgue Boss
David Bamber	Consulate Clerk
Gwenaël Clause	Deauvage
Philippe Durand	Morgue Attendant
Vincent Franklin	Rawlins
Paulette Frantz	Concierge
Albert Finney	Actor
Matthew O'Neil	Lead Hub Tech
Richard Nunez	CIA Security Detail
Sonny Robertson	CIA Security Detail
Dexter Emery	CIA Security Detail
Ava Katharina Maria Hoeller	Las Vegas Hotel Receptionist
Shane Williams	Kalloor's Aria Security
Karl Urban	Actor
John Powell	Composer
David Buckley	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Greengrass

Christopher Rouse

Matt Damon

Tony Gilroy

W. Blake Herron

Paul Greengrass	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Christopher Rouse	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Frank Marshall	Producer
Jeffrey M. Weiner	Producer
Ben Smith	Producer
Matt Damon	Producer,Screenwriter
Gregory Goodman	Producer
Doug Liman	Executive Producer,Director,Producer
Henry Morrison	Executive Producer,Producer
Jennifer Todd	Executive Producer,Producer
Oliver Tarney	Sound/Sound Designer
Michael Fentum	Sound/Sound Designer
James Harrison	Sound/Sound Designer
Onofrio Nino Pansini	Camera Operator
Peter Field	Camera Operator
Oliver Loncraine	Camera Operator
Dan Hubbard	Casting
Francine Maisler	Casting
Melissa Kostenbauder	Casting
Nick Fulton	Production Manager
Steven A. Morrow	Sound Mixer
Gary Powell	Stunts
Sarah Armstrong	Stunts
Steven Warner	Special Effects Supervisor
Robert Ludlum	Character Design,Producer
Chris Carreras	Producer
Jordi Cirbian	Sound Effects
Tim Fraser	Sound Effects
Tony Gilroy	Screenwriter
Patrick Crowley	Producer
Kefi Abrikh	Stunts
Hugo Adams	Sound Effects
Dafydd Archard	Sound Effects
Ishbel Beeson	Sound Effects
W. Blake Herron	Screenwriter
Richard N. Gladstein	Producer
Dawn Gough	Sound Editor

Editorial Reviews

After a Matt Damon-less entry in the Bourne series (2012's The Bourne Legacy), the actor is back in yet another big-screen adventure about Robert Ludlum's most famous character. Paul Greengrass, who helmed the second and third installments of the franchise, also returns as both the director and (for the first time) a co-writer -- a pretty significant shift, given that this chapter, unlike previous offerings, isn't based on Ludlum's source material. After learning the truth about his past life as a top-secret government assassin, Jason Bourne (Damon) now lives off the grid as an underground fighter. However, he is forced back on the run when his old friend Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who is being hunted by taciturn CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones, the movie's most on-the-nose casting choice), tracks him down to tell him about a rogue operation conducted by U.S. intelligence. What's more, she has important information to share about the death of his father, whom Bourne believed was just a government desk worker killed by terrorists. Dewey, like most of the CIA, believes that Bourne needs to be "put down" because he knows too much already, and that the rogue wanderer could ruin the agency's latest venture if given the chance. Said operation, which would compromise the privacy and security of Internet users around the globe, is being aided and abetted by Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), an ersatz Mark Zuckerberg who serves as the CEO of an omnipresent social-media site. Meanwhile, new CIA hotshot Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) hatches a scheme to bring Bourne back into the fold, believing that it would be better to recruit him as a teammate than deal with him as a constant threat. Just like the series' first three entries (which rank among the best action movies of last several decades), Jason Bourne revolves around propulsive fight sequences that are shot and edited in a hectic manner mirroring the protagonist's chaotic existence; the scenes of clipped, terse dialogue and technical jargon mostly serve as connective tissue between thrilling stunts, punches, and close calls. The film boasts a number of stunning chases and duels (including an epic sequence on a motorcycle and a SWAT vehicle-enabled getaway) that recall some of the best action moments from its predecessors. Unfortunately, it often seems like the actors themselves are merely going through the motions as they retread the subject matter of the original trilogy. As a result, Jason Bourne lacks the compelling urgency and disorientation of the previous films, ultimately feeling just as boilerplate as Jones' authoritarian villain. The extraordinarily talented French thespian Vincent Cassel (maybe best known for his work in Black Swan) is highly overqualified for his role as the brusque hitman instructed to eliminate Bourne, since his dialogue mainly consists of one-word responses to Dewey via an earpiece. And Damon, one of the most respected actors working today, is asked to do so little as Bourne that Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal could have played this version of the character in one of their countless popcorn flicks during the '80s and early '90s. There's no real sense of nuance here: The movie lays on the government-as-villain angle so thick that the story feels like Rambo in the age of Edward Snowden. The early Bourne films forced the protagonist to do some soul searching as he peeled back the layers of his own past, and if the next installment returns to that kind of self-reflection, Greengrass and Damon could have another classic on their hands. When viewed purely through the lens of a crowd-pleasing blockbuster, Jason Bourne is a solid movie that will appeal to action aficionados, but viewers looking for another subversive thriller that combines fighting with real intrigue won't be as satisfied.