10 Movies That Explained Way Too Much

If you can assign an overriding criticism to the film Jason Bourne, a sequel to the original Jason Bourne trilogy, it is that the franchise as a whole would be better if it didn’t exist. It’s not a bad film, but it commits the sin of telling us what happens next when we really don’t need to know.

The biggest error then is basically in the premise of the film itself. Saying exactly what happened to Jason Bourne after Bourne Ultimatum just detracts from the power of that ending.

Ultimatum ended with Jason Bourne reaffirming who he is by basically repeating what happened in the beginning of the first film, with Bourne choosing not to execute someone, being presumed dead in a body of water, and then reemerging again from that body of water reborn. It’s open ended, but tells you everything you needed to know about this narrative and what it is saying about its central character. The new one just muddies those waters.

We get a revenge plot about Jason going after the man who killed his father - a man Jason is only just now remembering. We see characters who survived the original trilogy (and whose survival was important to the denouement of those films), get gunned down in the early moments of the new film. A powerful, fitting ending is replaced with more of the same kind of Jason Bourne shenanigans we saw in the other films, but while those events felt like they were building to something, this one felt like it was tearing down what had been built.