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Directed by | Paul Greengrass |
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Based on | Characters by Robert Ludlum |
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Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
Edited by | Christopher Rouse |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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123 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $120 million |
Box office | $415.5 million |
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Film score by John Powell & David Buckley | |
Released | July 29, 2016 |
Recorded | 2016 |
Length | 61:16 |
Label | Back Lot Music |
Jason Bourne is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass written by Greengrass and Christopher Rouse. In this fifth installment of the Jason Bourne film series and direct sequel to 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon reprises his role as the main character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne.
In the film, Bourne remains on the run from CIA hit squads as he tries to uncover hidden truths about his father. CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) orders the CIA head of cyber-security Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) to hunt him down. Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh and Scott Shepherd also star. Principal photography on the film commenced on September 8, 2015. The film premiered in London on July 11, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 29, 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was an enormous box office success, grossing $415 million worldwide.
A decade after he exposed Operation Blackbriar and disappeared, Jason Bourne has finally recovered from his amnesia, isolating himself from the world and making a living by taking part in savage, bareknuckle fighting bouts wherever and whenever he can find them. In Reykjavík, Nicky Parsons, who has been collaborating with a hacktivist group led by Christian Dassault, hacks into the CIA's mainframe computer server to expose the CIA's "black" (top-secret) operations programs. This action alerts Heather Lee, the head of the agency's cybernetic operations division, and CIA Director Robert Dewey. In the process, Parsons finds documents that concern Bourne's recruitment into Treadstone and his father's role in the program. She decides to travel to Athens to find and inform him.