doughty-dan Where is a story ? are you killing off this series.what is this ..some random music, crowded fast paced scenes & NOTHING else...LOL...this is worse than the one with Jeremy Renner ... ...coz I sure am not going to watch the next one until someone legitimately compels me...

Neil Welch After detouring in the 4th movie, where we discovered that Jeremy Renner took super-hero pills, Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne, reluctantly taking on a CIA which is up to its old tricks again.Nicky Parsons, Bourne's old contact, finds him and tells him that the CIA are still running black ops operations like Treadstone. Though reluctant, Bourne is drawn back into the world he thought he had escaped, and finds himself pitted against Tommy Lee Jones as head of the CIA, Alicia Vikander as an ambitious rising star, and Vincent Cassel as a CIA "asset" with a grudge. Despite having Bourne discover some unknown aspects of his past, and despite there being an "is she/isn't she?" aspect to the political machinations of Alicia Vikander's character, there isn't actually a vast amount of plot here. But there is a huge amount of action, much of which is chase sequences - no great surprise there, as far as Greengrass on Bourne is concerned. And it must be said that Greengrass certainly knows how to choreograph a chase sequence - despite the ubiquitous jittercam, it is never difficult to follow what is going on during the chases: the geography of the chaser and chasee is always absolutely clear. If only other jittercam exponents would follow the example! I felt that the action had been deliberately softened, perhaps in order to get the film a more widely accessible certificate.Damon certainly dealt with the action well, but Bourne has already been on his voyage of discovery and was little more than a cipher here. Alicia Vikander, however, who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite actresses, brings a degree of duplicitous uncertainty to a character who is following her own highly uncertain agenda. And Tommy Lee Jones puts that wonderfully crumpled face to great use as a CIA director managing several difficult and challenging problems.I just wish there had been a bit more story and a bit less chasing.

mikeh-54044 I've seen all of the movies in this series. Clearly the lure of the money far-outweighed the lack of story, wooden acting, and the burning need to maximize violence. The producers should have made it a short and just located Jason in a major city with a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, with him sitting in an easy chair lashed to it and a push-button. Five minutes and BANG! Done, and no need for viewers to be tortured for two hours.

mikemass-399-81998 Any true fan of Jason Bourne knows Matt Damon said that the next Bourne after Ultimatum should be named The Bourne Redundancy. He was right! The story line is stupid and lazy. The directing is also lazy. The special effects are good. Bourne is no longer a meticulous planner, his actions are ridiculously reckless and would make you wonder WTH !!!!! The technology used by the CIA is fantasy technology imagined by the kind of people who don't know anything about technology or even science, you would probably laugh at the programming language used by the CIA in the first few minutes of the movie, and it only gets more ridiculous from there. This movie also serves as a advertising tool for some very wealthy and infamous businesses, and those scenes showing the business names are so painfully long and awkward. The story line also has to serve those special interests.Go see it and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. In general, don't waste your time, other people's time, and money to see this piece of junk.