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what i liked most was the the pacing of the movie. the director allowed time for the setup of some type of emotional attachment to the people in the program Jeremy Renner's character was involved in. also, the thread of Rachel Weisz's character's plot was setup well.
I really liked the framework of the movie. There were some nice touches early in the movie that pulled me into the personalities of the two main characters and showed solid motivations for getting involved with a project in the CIA. Also, the plot of the story seemed more streamlined than the other Bourne movies. In the other ones, Bourne was bouncing around so much and there were more moving parts in the CIA that were brought up that it was difficult for me to really settle into the flow of the movie and notice the circumstances Jason Bourne was in.
The only negative aspects I noticed were that:
1. Ed Norton kind of was wasted in this movie. He did a good job with not having alot to do. And to be honest, I don't really know how the movie would have been better with Ed Norton's character being more of a focus of the story. I think I was just wanting him to show his chops in one scene and cut loose. but all in all, he acted well.
2. I wish they had shown more, either with dialogue or with something happening in the movie, how Rachel Weisz's character found the resolve to stand strong in what would have been really difficult circumstances for a 'civilian' to adapt to having to detach from her emotions. I don't necessarily mean this because it would be unreasonable for a woman to be able to adapt. I just think that it would have given a tool for the audience to relate better to the story.
3. The threadline with David Straithern's character and Joan Allen's character seems like it was tacked on. My sister, whom I saw the movie with, mentioned to me that maybe if they make a sequel, the Treadstone storyline might get brought up again. I still think it kind of seemed distracting to the main plot of the story.
this Bourne movie seems like it might have been similar to what might potentially could have happened in the second Bourne movie with Bourne and his girlfriend. in that movie, Bourne and his girlfriend were just living off of the grid until the CIA came looking for both of them and killed her unexpectedly.
for those of you who saw this and didn't care for it like you hoped you would: were you going into the movie wanting really intense action sequences and watching a 'one-man wrecking crew' take on the CIA?
if you were, I could see that this movie would be disappointing since most of the action was in the last 20 minutes of the movie.
this movie was more interested in following the development of the main characters as they were battling for their survival, rather than Bourne taking on the CIA and searching for answers to his identity.
I found that I was able to relate to the main character and his plot alot more than I was Jason Bourne. I don't sight this as a knock on Matt Damon as an actor, more than I think the writers of the new Bourne movie really being able to having a simpler story that I was able to connect to.
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