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(Movie Review) Jason Bourne

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RELEASE DATE:July 29, 2016

STUDIO:Universal Pictures

DIRECTOR:Paul Greengrass

MPAA RATING:PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief strong language)

SCREENWRITERS:Anthony Peckham, Christopher Rouse

STARRING:Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Tommy Lee Jones

GENRE:Action

[divider]Ok, so Jeremy Renner didn’t work out as the new Bourne stand-in with the last iteration of the popular spy series. But hey, Matt Damon is still around, in good shape, and still a fine actor so why not bring the films back to where their bread was buttered? Honestly, I was excited to see Damon back in the drivers seat. New Bourne-centric adventures and more of that badass fighting style we all came to love in first few films I was all about it.

Although, I wanted so badly to love this movie. I just couldn’t help but feel like I’d been there and done that while watching the story unfold in this chapter of the Bourne Saga. It’s him being hunted down by the government that made him, while he finds out new facts about the program that spawned him, and trying to stop those in charge of it from continuing. It’s the same thing in a different year with a noticeably older Damon. The Car chases were still awesome like in the inititial three pictures. I think that maybe these were a bit more emphasized due to Damon’s age but if not it was just to add action to the film to cover for the almost absent hand to hand battle scenes. My favorite scenes from the previous films were the intense close quarters combat where Bourne would break a guy down with whatever was available around him. I loved that unpredictability in the fighting it made it grittier, more dangerous, and more real to me. There was very little of this from the amnesia stricken agent. The few sequences we do get were shot in a chaotic way to where a lot of the fight is out of frame as the camera is too close at times to the combatants.

Tommy Lee Jones was a good foil to Bourne. His conniving, back stabbing, self righteous villainy in the name of America felt timely. I’ve always liked my Tommy Lee Jones stone faced and cold hearted and that’s what we get here. Heather Lee (played by Alicia Vikander) is the ambitious agent that is the catalyst for the internal struggle in the CIA. Her desire for power and position is equal with Jones’ Dewey. Vikander plays Lee in a way that you’re not sure exactly where her allegiances fall to.

All in all this was an OK, but ultimately unnecessary part of the Bourne odyssey. The action was good when vehicles were involved but hand to hand was weak save for the final fight between Bourne and another agent simply reffered to as Asset. If you never saw the other Bourne films it’s just fine. To this Bourne Universe alumni, it felt redundant and not on the same level as the original trilogy.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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