Mousterpiece cinema podcast1/7/2024 ![]() What is entirely expendable is language-like actual words spoken by actors. It’s basically the same thing Greengrass did in Captain Phillips (good) and Green Zone (bad) and will always do to varying degrees of success, to the extent that any new Paul Greengrass movie, like Jason Bourne, will only be a laser-focused refining rather than anything surprising or remotely new or whatever qualities mark growth in a once-refreshing artistic voice. ![]() What works and what has arguably gotten it this far is stripping Doug Liman’s spy and action dude tropes down to nothing more than a complex web of cause-and-effect, fueled by Greengrass’s now patented shaky-cam crutch, which, depending on your gastrointestinal constitution, is either an immersive quality, or a nauseating one. This being the fifth Bourne film and Paul Greengrass’s third, the director by now knows intimately well what works for the franchise, what’s gotten it this far, and what is entirely expendable. It’s come to my attention that Paste has not reviewed Jason Bourne, and as I should be regarded as Paste’s Resident Matt Damon Expert, then it is up to me to rectify this oversight. Have a suggestion for a good movie podcast? Slide into Dom’s DMs on Twitter. If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then writing about movie podcasts is like listening to someone describe someone dancing about architecture. Each week or so, Dom plumbs the depths of podcast nation to bring you the best in cinema-related chats and programs.
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