Terrorism and surveillance are treated both as facts of life and as vaporous abstractions. Snowden’s name is dropped a few times, and there is a subplot about a young tech mogul named Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), who is trying to extricate his company from Dewey’s pocket. This chapter in the series, coming after the emergence of WikiLeaks and the growth of social media, takes passing note of contemporary realities. Their main operational weapon on the ground overseas is a killer known only as the Asset (Vincent Cassel), who harbors a personal grudge against Bourne. (Tommy Lee Jones), and Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander), one of his ambitious underlings, running the show amid the satellite feeds and data displays of suburban Virginia. Nicky and Jason rendezvous in Athens in the middle of a riot, and the globe-trotting chase commences, with Robert Dewey, the director of the C.I.A.
She has some information, harvested from a hacker camp in Iceland, concerning past Agency skulduggery involving Bourne’s father (Gregg Henry, in flashbacks). The sitrep here is that Bourne, who has been pursuing his Plan B career as a bare-knuckle boxer in the wilds of Greece, is approached by his former colleague and fellow Company renegade, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles). For us, it’s part of the fun, like the insidery frisson of hearing nuggets of spy jargon hissed by unsmiling people in dark suits. For him, the resulting confusion is harrowing. He knows that he knows some bad stuff - and his pursuers know it, too - but he’s not entirely sure what he knows or how he knows it. After so many years and so much running, his existential predicament has become a matter of routine. Jason Bourne is a uniquely passive action hero, a man who runs on pure survival instinct as he tries to figure out who is after him and why. Damon, for his part, is as subdued as ever. Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the director of the C.I.A.
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