Jason Bourne Review: 7 Ups And 3 Downs

1. It Takes The Best Bits From The Previous Movies And Makes Them Better

In Jason Bourne you have the following: an early sequence of an assassin hunting Bourne and a colleague, a London-set sequence where Bourne is trying to intercept an innocent, an intense fist fight in a bland location that becomes one of the movie's standouts, a line of CIA agents of varying duplicitous allegiance, a frantic car chase against a former foe.

That's right - what Greengrass has essentially done is distilled everything that worked best in the previous films into one coherent whole, with added age and melancholy. As someone who's never been won over by a single Bourne movie fully (although I do still love Supremacy), this worked brilliantly, allowing me to appreciate everything on its own level.

Die-hards may be a bit more sceptical, but there's enough new stuff to stop it being a straight up greatest hits, and almost feels a bit similar to Mad Max: Fury Road in the way it's playing the same notes in a new style. Like Bond, Bourne's found its formula, and it works.

And now for the downs...