【】

  发布时间:2025-05-19 12:52:14   作者:玩站小弟   我要评论
Some people may enjoy sitting through Jason Bourne, though it will by hard to fathom why. The return 。

Some people may enjoy sitting through Jason Bourne, though it will by hard to fathom why. The return of Matt Damon and writer/director Paul Greengrass is a soulless, sensually deadening time-suck, like watching a stranger play a video game you used to think was fun while someone vigorously shakes the screen, or perhaps your head.

That's what it feels like walking out -- like someone just batted you about the the ears and neck for two hours while constantly reminding you how scary things are in the world.

Ugh.

SEE ALSO:Surprise! Seth Rogen's 'Sausage Party' is kind of smart.

There used to be tension in these Bournemovies. There used to be a creeping unease, a haunting hopelessness about the guy who didn't know who he was, yet always stayed a step ahead of some very nasty, very ill-intended dudes. (Heck, even Jeremy Renner's quest for little blue pills had The Bourne Legacygnawing at us for something. A-chems.)

Now there's just very long, boring stretches of boring people doing a lot of hasty walking around. There is much walking. They walk up ramps and down stairs. They walk in squares and they walk in circles. They mix in some running and some trotting and some talking into earpieces.

There are a lot of computer screens and impossibly stable wireless connections. Oh, quite a bit of very fast typing -- at least 80 wpm. That isexciting.

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

Did I mention the computer screens?

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

So many computer screens! Fancy ones.

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

I mean like, some reallyfancy ones!

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

And then -- then, by god, they break into eruptions of torrid violence that are nothing but loud and disorienting and painful. Bones are crunched, faces smashed, arms twisted and snapped. And then there is the mass mayhem, Fast and Furious-level stuff that the Bournemovies used to be better than.

These are not exotic or exhilarating images -- they just look like what we see on the news. A chase through a protest in Greece could be CNN on any given night; one of the Vegas scenes hews perhaps a little too close to one of the more recent, excessively harrowing incidents of real-life mayhem the world has had to endure of late.

Mashable Top StoriesStay connected with the hottest stories of the day and the latest entertainment news.Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletterBy signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Thanks for signing up!
Mashable Image

All the while, Alicia Vikander tracks the action from a computer in the most wooden, charmless performance a reigning Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner will ever give. Vikander is a vibrant and versatile talent, but her Jason Bournecharacter, as written, directed and performed, is a far more convincing robot than Ava in Ex Machina.

Vikander, a newcomer to the series, mopes and connives her way through Jason Bournewith a bizarre American accent, strangling out silly sounding CIA buzzwords "sitrep" and "asset" like Zooey Deschanel with a lymph node infection.

No one's telling anyone to smile more here, least of all a uniquely bright and promising actress who just months ago rightfully and resoundingly won an Academy Award for a varied and complex role.

But for the love of Valhalla, is there not another facial expression besides this one?

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

The truth is, everyone scowls through this thing, it's not just her. They scowl and growl and grimace and bark orders and grunt, mostly about things that stop making sense after the story loses you 10 minutes in, and you snap out of the daydream you were having and yep -- more people walking around. More crashing, more bashing, more killing.

The one actor who shows signs of life is Riz Ahmed (star of HBO's The Night Of), who plays Aaron Kalloor, a Silicon Valley megastar CEO who's reluctantly in cahoots with the CIA because guess what? He has data. Wow, does he have data. All the data. It's almost like this movie wants to say something about privacy (ultimately, it doesn't).

Ahmed actually cracks a smile at one point, and it's almost jarring. Because these guys!

Yeesh!

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

Matt Damon is too much of a ringer, too on top of his game to screw this up -- he's got the Jason Bourne template on lock, no matter how joyless that may be. A few extra miles on the old mug gives the character some welcome seasoning. Boyish Bournewas cool and slick and tough, but Dad Bourneis here and he's pisssssed. He's not the problem, really.

Tommy Lee Jones, being Tommy Lee Jones, just looks a little more bored than the last movie he was in. But in this gray, grim slog of a punishing slugfest, who wouldn't?

Mashable ImageCredit: youtube

When Doug Liman introduced the franchise with The Bourne Identity in 2002, 9/11 was still the undercurrent of everything, and James Bond was still stuck on Pierce Brosnan with Die Another Day. Identitycame like a blast of fresh, bracing air -- it was harsh and immediate, sparking off an era of "realistic" action.

Now that granite facade looks a little shopworn and feels ultimately silly, bringing us back to a tone and time no one was nostalgic for.

Speaking of, Jason Bourne grasps to connect back to its predecessors in flashback, but forgets that a) it's been almost a decade since Bourne's story left off and b) no one cared enough to track on it back then, either.

And yet "I remember everything" is Bourne's key line -- at least he remembers who he is and what he's capable of, which takes almost all the desperation out of the equation. What he can't quite remember is why his father died in a car bombing before he was recruited into the program, or something. It's really not clear, but it really doesn't matter. (If it matters to you, Damon did a 90-second video recap that shows someone's aware that we've probably not retained any of this.)

It all comes off like an action-packed but ultimately empty episode of 24, without any of the tensions or motivations. And sure, some people might still enjoy sitting through something like that.

Which will always be an unknown.

TopicsFilm

  • Tag:

相关文章

  • Nancy Pelosi warns colleagues after info hacked

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone num
    2025-05-19
  • 鮮蘑豬肉水煎包的做法

    麵對現在市麵那麽多的美味食品,我知道很多人是抵擋不住誘惑的,但是有很多食品是不幹淨的 ,那麽麵對這種情況,其實我們可以自己在家學做菜的,那麽先給大家演示鮮蘑豬肉水煎包的做法 。1.準備餡料材料。2.先把胡
    2025-05-19
  • 香煎五香豬裏脊肉的做法

    一個懶字已經毀掉了無數人的生活 ,因為懶,你會把衣服堆積起來,最後放進洗衣機一起洗掉;因為懶 ,你家冰箱從來沒有新鮮的蔬果,因為你從不自己做飯 。為了改掉這個陋習,你需要跟著我一起學做一下香煎五香豬裏脊肉。
    2025-05-19
  • 臘味茄肉生煎包的做法

    眼看著十一長假馬上到來 ,你內心肯定激動萬分,你肯定已經想好了去哪裏玩?吃些什麽 ?外麵的美食雖然多,但是衛生卻十分令人擔憂 。與其這樣 ,你還不如自己做 。那麽  ,現在小編就來教你如何做好臘味茄肉生煎包。1.1
    2025-05-19
  • U.S. government issues warning on McDonald's recalled wearable devices

    Last week's McDonald's debacle, which saw the fast food giant forced to recall its first wearable tr
    2025-05-19
  • 紫蘇葉煎焗大海鯇的做法

    想要做出好的美味佳肴,前提是要準備好所需要的一切食材 ,調料 ,以及餐具 。當然最重要的還是對火候的把握 。把這一切準備好後  ,下麵我們就開始做紫蘇葉煎焗大海鯇1.海鯇肉2.海鯇肉切大塊,用鹽,雞粉稍醃3.紫蘇
    2025-05-19

最新评论