Since wrapping up the original trilogy with Ultimatum, Damon and Greengrass, separately and together, continued to say that that was it, Bourne had run its course. Vikander, solemn and soft-spoken, spends most of her time toggling among computer screens, issuing curt directives, and walking down hallways with a watchful, wary eye. So what's he doing huddling with the CIA's crusty Dewey, then? personal privacy is turned into a plot point: Riz Ahmed, star of HBO's riveting new crime series The Night Of, plays the young CEO of a social media giant promising his users that their personal information is safe and secure. ![]() The ongoing debate about national security vs. NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden is cited twice, as CIA servers get hacked, and as information about agency programs - including Treadstone, the one that hatched Bourne and his memory-vacuumed cohorts - is disseminated. into oncoming traffic, and a SWAT truck (in Las Vegas), plowing everything in its path. It's heavy on firefights and foot chases, with screeching cars heading 100 m.p.h. Jason Bourne does what any espionage thriller worth its encrypted USBs should: It crisscrosses continents (more datelines than a BBC News broadcast). Dewey dispatches a lean, mean shooter (the stone-faced Vincent Cassel) to take Bourne and Nicky out. ![]() The two meet in Athens, using an austerity protest - rioters, riot police - as cover.īut an ambitious CIA officer, Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander), has eyes - and a command room full of surveillance technology - on Bourne, too. So is Bourne's one-time handler, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who sidles into a Reykjavik cyber-spy co-working space, runs a few programs, uploads to some satellites, and tracks Bourne down.
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