Jason Bourne Review: 7 Ups And 3 Downs

5. The Memory Elements Aren't As Forced

OK, it's time I made a shocking mid-point confession. I'm not a massive fan of the Bourne series. I don't dislike them. Identity's a film with a really tight plot that's always overlooked because it was Doug Liman, who people didn't like until Edge Of Tomorrow, not Paul Greengrass directing it, yet it's no classic. Supremacy is just a great action movie, fair enough, but Ultimatum is more a run of sequences and Legacy is... well... it barely counts.

My big problem with them all is the plot, and how random memory flashes became a lazy part of the narrative - Ultimatum picks up straight after the previous film, yet all of a sudden Bourne remembers a whole movie's worth of key info.

Thankfully, because Webb got his key memories back in that third entry, Jason Bourne can run about a bit more unencumbered, with the memory flashes we do get slight and fitting better into the wider plot. Bourne's probing what he knows, not randomly learning more.