What has become of Jason Bourne, since he of “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) from the tenth floor in the East River jumped at the end and escaped his pursuers? Unbeatable in melee, infallible with the gun, to persistent, persevering, ingenious, cunning. Granted, he had not quite regained his memory, but reconstructs the crucial parts of his past and so overcome the trauma of his uncertain identity. Which bright future was him as well open?
Now, Jason Bourne might be many things, a clever survivor he is not. Now you can see: With its top skills he had nothing better to do in the freedom known as to participate in the Greek-Albanian border on brutal fistfights, to entertain there stemmed refugees. What drives a so in such a joyless existence?
The makers of “Jason Bourne” must have valid reasons to bring the submerged ex-CIA agents back to the surface. Because the step to extend a coherent trilogy, will be carefully considered “Indiana Jones” Greetings. Because of the self-contained “Bourne” -Dreiteiler with its flashbacks and nesting forms a particularly compact unit. But above all, because of the traumatized, disoriented JasonBourne the perfect protagonists represented the 9/11 shook America of the Bush era.
When Matt Damon 2002 Doug Liman thriller was “the Bourne identity” for the first time this Bourne, he played an action hero, as the world had never seen before: free of coolness and glamor, tormented by his deeds and driven by the desire for normality because therein lies its dilemma. he is not ice-cold killer, but was taken from his instructors only to such a by now turn brings about the route, he hopes to again become a normal person.
Since Bourne last his adversaries and memories chased – between “identity” and “ultimatum” in 2004 there was the “conspiracy” the world has become a different the war on terror will by drones in the distance instead, and in. the late Obama era is not discussed more about waterboarding but about unbridled intelligence and surveillance. Given the film increased by film business for it was for the producers because only logical to consider Bourne fitness now also in the new context.
With the appropriate evidence of the film adheres to not long: Within ten minutes, the action jumps from refugee camp to hackers to Iceland and from there to Athens, where a demonstration against the austerity policies of the EU in a fierce street battle escalates , Against this backdrop confusing the agent Nicky (Julia Stiles) scores from Bourne to surrender top secret CIA data that could bring her to him. “This could be worse than Snowden,” the suits
guessed at headquarters in Langley. Today the Bourne recipe looks a bit dowdy
The documents undergoes Bourne that his father with had to do a secret CIA program in which he himself was trained as special agents after his father had come by a car bomb in Beirut killed. The fact that he now wants to find out the truth about the role and the death of his father, makes CIA chief Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) nervous. Soon he incited the renegade protégé a killer after another on the neck. The ambitious investigator Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) tried meanwhile to build a relationship of trust with Bourne on the trail from Berlin via London finally to Las Vegas.
The fact that it all feels familiar, as it good for an action thriller can, especially the enormous impact of the first three “Bourne” films is owed. Heroes without Knacks appear hardly conceivable today. Even James Bond, the decades even unambiguous epitome of sovereignty, since “Casino Royale” (2006) are primarily involved in the processing of his childhood. Formally, the trilogy has set standards. When director Liman and screenwriter Tony Gilroy have reinvented with Jason Bourne the action hero for the 21st century, this director Paul Greengrass, cinematographer Oliver Wood and editor Christopher Rouse has succeeded in the following two parts for the action film as a whole. As picture, sound and editing here merge into an almost impressionistic mosaic, has since stylistically in unprecedented ways.
But, the effect wears off. Had this form of hyperkinetic overstimulation ten years ago an irresistible freshness and force, it now seems not dated but too familiar. Not change the update covers anything that – like the refugees and protesters – merely remain decorative backdrop. The film is indeed clearly situated in the present, but relevant it is far from it. For this he would ever true colors in quite burning topics he touches on: What is about the protection of privacy with respect to the growing need for security? Who uses the intelligence limits, and where they are appropriate? “Jason Bourne” clips these questions, but ultimately the hero pursues merely strictly his personal agenda. “I’m not on your side,” he grouses to a Berlin hacker, as thinks they fought but both against the corrupt institutions that control the company. Bourne other hand does not want to improve the world. He just wants to find out his private truth – as they still like so much are in larger political context and hold those responsible accountable
Just over solid attachment work
For “Jason Bourne”. have for the first time even wrote the screenplay Paul Greengrass and his master cutter Rouse; the rift with Writer Gilroy led 2012 on the moderately successful spinoff “The Bourne Legacy” (with Jeremy Renner in the lead role), that does not matter for the current continuation. “Jason Bourne” but does little more than solid connecting work on the trilogy; after all, with the opaque cyber expert Heather Lee a new and promising figure, one that can be further developed in another “Bourne”. And Bourne himself? find His peace must not necessarily main thing, he brings more classic villains the route.
“Jason Bourne” expires today in Berlin in 20 cinemas
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