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Jason Bourne (2016)

Matt Damon returns to play Jason Bourne after wrapping up the trilogy in 2007. The studio thought they could get along without Damon and what we got was a very boring Bourne Legacy. Thankfully Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass have returned and it was always going to be interesting to see how Jason Bourne would be nine years after the last film.  Damon’s first scene sees him arrive in the middle of a fight, take one punch at someone and then leaves. It pretty much shows that Jason Bourne is back within five minutes. Then we meet Julia Stiles’ Nicky who I was never a big fan of. I don't think she’s a bad actress but I just dont think there is much to her. It seems that they only bought her in so they could kill her off. Despite having very little dialogue, he does his acting by just using his face and at times his fists. He can still do the fight scenes well enough and the film is far more interesting when he is on screen. Riz Ahmed plays Aaron Kalloor who is a Steve Jobs/Mark...