-Nicky finds Jason in an underground fighting ring in Athens. Rather than waiting for his fight to end to talk to him, she leaves a note for them to meet at a heavily policed, public place in the middle of the city where the government is able to find them
-While Jason and Nicky walk through the streets of Athens it sounds like Nicky’s audio is dubbed over and the characters are in two different places
-The Athens chase breaks the realism of the original trilogy with excessive explosions and the use of police as props. Not a single police officer has a line, and all of their faces are covered in order to make them expendable
-The Athens chase simply goes on too long for being so early in the movie. There are stakes for Nicky, as she stole government files but it’s unclear why Bourne would be motivated by anything other than survival. Why do we believe he wants to survive? It doesn’t feel like the stakes are there to waarant such a long, drawn out sequence.
-During tha Athens chase “The Asset” kill multiple inoocent people including shooting three people on a roof. The reckless killing of innocent bystandards breaks from the series norms doesn’t make a lot of sense for a government agent.
-The entire Aaron Kalloor/Iron Hand plot is a waste of time. Kalloor runs a big tech company and grants the government a backdoor to their data. This gives the appearence of social commentary on the privacy vs security debate, but the film fails to actually say anything about this debate beyond the fact that it exists. The only impact this subplot has on the main story line is to give the characters a reason to travel to Las Vegas for the climax and give Tommy Lee Jones’ character an oppertunity to demonstrate how evil he really is. With a couple small changes this entire subplot could have been cut.
-Even if you blelieved a tech CEO when he tells you that your data is private, you would not break into a standing ovation
-This film rehashes some of the plot from the Bourne Supremacy in whch a lower-level female CIA agent is trying to bring Bourne in while their corrupt superior insists on killing him.
-It’s unclear what Heather Lee’s motivation is. Are we supposed to believe that she would act so insubordinate just because a 10 year old report includes speculation that Borune might want to come back in?
-Berlin hacker guy is an over the top stereotype
-Why does Berlin hacker guy attack Bourne moments after offering to team up? Maybe he wants the files that badly, but surely he would know enough about Bourne to know that attacking him is a mistake
-Even if the CIA could identify there was a phone in the room with the laptop, how could they use that to delete the files off of the laptop?
-During the London sequence, Tommy Lee Jones undermines Heather Lee and has The Asset try to kill Bourne despite promising that Lee could have a face to face chat to try to bring him in. This doesn’t make sense on multiple levels
- Tommy Lee Jones is in charge. If he thinks that killing Bourne is the only option, why not just override Lee’s suggestion for a face to face talk?
- In the process , The Asset kills four government agents working with Lee. Are we really supposed to believe that Tommy Lee Jones decided that killing those four agents was worth pretending to give Lee what she wants?
- What is the motivation for CIA Director to undermine his protege in this way?
-Why is a tech CEO who is insisting that his users’ data is private, doing a joint presentation with the CIA director?
-It is unclear if Borune’s primary conflict in the film is him wrestling with whether he should come back in and serves his country or whether it is to get more information about the killing of his father. The film ultimately reaches its climax when Bourne avenges his father but we go almost the entire film without an understanding of his need for revenge, only his need to understand what happened to him.
-The Asset drives a SWAT van through Las Vegas that is immune to the laws of physics. It barrels through traffic sending cars flying in a way that does not make sense.
-The Asset calls Bourne a traitor literally minutes after he himself killed multiple innocent people at a tech conference and then killed more rampaging through traffic. Talk about lacking self-awareness
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