9 Problems A Jason Bourne Sequel Must Avoid

One of the films scant attempts at doing something a little different is the sub plot that jumps in and out almost at random intervals. Something about social media or... something?

It is trying to broach the subject of internet security with regards to our own personal information and the rights to our own privacy. When does the government tracking our every move go from being protection to being perversion. This is Paul Greengrass' attempt at placing us in a 'post Snowden world' as he was quoted as saying many times before the films release.

in theory, the idea of an overabundance of government surveillance and paranoia should fit Bourne like an assassin's leather glove, but it just does not tie in tightly enough with everything else going on. It almost feels like another film has been shoved in to take up time and it often has nothing to do with Bourne at all. It's more like a glove that's too big and baggy and... I've over-played this metaphor.

We pay for a Bourne film to see Bourne. Riz Ahmed's fictional Mark Zuckerburg-type and the simple fix would be to pair them together, at least for the majority of the run-time. Pushing this more into the foreground of the narrative and dropping other redundant plot threads would have improved the film vastly.