We just watched Jason Bourne from 2016. I couldn't roll my eyes any fucking harder. It was shot like a self serious tv show, with the shaky cam throughout but with never ending bass heavy heart pounding music.
The acting was unbelievable. The direction was, whatever emotion you may have experienced in life, or whatever excitement drew you to theater or acting, I want you to forget about that. We're going to pretend people have no affect, no emotion, and we're going to Botox your entire face for this. Please deliver each line as if you're describing the logic of a spreadsheet.
So I was hanging out for the insane action, but almost every fight scene was so short and "efficient," it was completely anti climatic. For any fight that latest more than three punches, the shots were so chaotic you couldn't tell what was going on.
And the plot...they've driven this so far into the ground, there's just nothing left to care about.
This proves to me that Matt Damon, once a promising actor with a cool personality, intellect, and acting chops, now replaces all acting with time at the gym. His goal is to be Arnold Schwarzenegger without any personality.
Lastly, it's not fun when everything in a movie is "the most in the world," meaning, your main character is the most impervious killing machine in the world, the smartest and most omnipotent in the world, outsmarting every move if his opponents, so there are so stakes for anything. Just watch ripped jocks pull off impossible feats of physical prowess and intellect for two hours. Who gives a fuck? I kept watching thinking the final fight between Vincent Cassel and God Himself in Human Form would be insane and cool, but it was just a car chase that felt like a video game followed by any anticlimactic brawl in an underground tunnel that felt like a sewer, which is where this movie should be buried and forgotten.
