Jason Bourne: Bourne 5

[smudgerebt]

I think the fights more to do with his age.

He just cant do the "fights" he did all those years ago.

Its a dvd/film4 watch rather than big screen for me.

[highway]

He's not too old for effective fight choreography at 45. The plot was the weakness. That and ejecting the sense of real. Vehicle chases in earlier films were distinctly NOT Bond like
and the better for it. The Vegas scene was OTT F and F fare. Not what you want for expect from Bourne.

[papercup]

God this was disappointing, wasn't it?

- go somewhere
- have a chase
- have a fight
- go somewhere else
- have a chase
- have a fight
- go somewhere else again
- have a chase
- have a fight
- i think they even eneded up in a 4th place, having a chase and a fight. I lost track a little.

Having introduced what i thought was going to be a nifty sub-plot involving an Assange-like character, guess what happens? Yes, they have a fight.

Killing Julia Stiles was lazy plotting and did anyone not see it coming a mile off?

The dad thing has apparently never come up before - felt almost like a retcon, it was so clumsy.

Apprently the CIA can access any electronic device/surveillance instantly in any country in the world. Oh, and delete files on it. Using a nearby phone, or something.

The Vegas car chase was woeful - did that swat van have physics-defying mass or something? It bowls cars out the way like skittles but apparently the one-armed bandit machines in the casino weigh more than cars as it stopped when it got in there. I expected it to keep driving through buildings until it reached the desert, then through a mountain or two.

Anyway, i won't look forward to the next one. Why do film-makers just have to keep going back to the same material until they've strangled the life out of it?

[daddy cool]

Loved the first 3, the 4th was pony, so was hoping for a return to form. But yeah, as said above it was just a bored tireless yarn.
Two biggest issues:

- Every Bourne film has a scene in a dark CIA/NSA room full of analysts behind computers, and some bellowing gobste will strut in and say "OK PEOPLE, i need you to do XYZ...." Always "people". Makes me cringe.

- 2016, and they are still using the ancient plot device of: Blurry video footage > "can you enhance it? > "i'll try" > pixel-perfect 12MP image of Julia Stiles face. Jesus - really?

[Disastrous]

I thought it was st.

As an aside, if the CIA stopped hiding it's secret black ops files in folders called 'secret black ops files - do NOT open, especially if you're a hacker!!!' they might have to execute fewer people.

[SAB888]

Saw it a few weeks ago and it was worse than I expected. Shaky camerawork together with awful editing made it hard to watch at times. Chase scenes were ridiculous and typical Hollywood but unbelievable. The Bourne Identity had a great director and it's still the best of the five so far, . . by a mile.

[zygalski]

Saw it last night.
WTF is with the SWAT team van?
Ploughs straight through about 50 cars and not a scratch!
Ludicrous.