Bedraggled yet buff, this perennial outsider now makes an off-the-grid living as a bare-knuckle fighter, but it’s clear from his haunted gaze and propensity for flashbacks that he is heading for a “tipping point”. We catch up with our renegade anti-hero on the Greek-Macedonian border, where he flattens a burly fighter in a stripped-to-the-waist sequence that seems less Jason Bourne than Jason Statham.

His speech may be sparse, but his body is expressively talkative Replete with heated exchanges about the pay-off between personal privacy and public order, the new movie (written by Greengrass and his long-term editor, Christopher Rouse) combines fist-fighting with cyber-stalking in impressively ruthless fashion, barrelling through its contemporary landscape like a cinematic bull in a rolling-news china shop.ĭamon injects a much needed air of humanity. Now, after reuniting on 2010’s underrated Green Zone, Damon and Greengrass are back with Jason Bourne, a breathlessly confident thriller with a self-consciously modern edge that casts its antihero adrift in a post-Snowden world of surveillance and social media. So successful were the Bourne movies that when Greengrass and leading man Matt Damon walked away from the Robert Ludlum-inspired series after the perfect ending of 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the studio cooked up The Bourne Legacy, an empty actioner with a gaping hole where its star and soul should be, idly trading on the memory of past glories. W ith 2004’s espionage sequel The Bourne Supremacy, director Paul Greengrass changed the face of popcorn thrillers, combining the docudrama grit of Bloody Sunday with super-slick thrills that left the Bond franchise in the dust.

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