Don't get me wrong, I REALLY enjoyed it - but I think I enjoyed the Marta/Aaron running for their lives and being ADORBS movie and not the conspiracy movie they tried to wedge in there as well. I think it would have been MUCH better if it was a tighter chase movie and they didn't try to ham-fist it into the existing Bourne canon, other than maybe explaining that they had to do away with this other program because Bourne went rogue, leave it at that. Don't try to shoe-horn Pamela Landy in and don't feel compelled to show Matt Damon's mug every six seconds like SEE, BOURNE IS HERE TOO, DON'T HATE US, WE'RE STILL MAKING A BOURNE MOVIE.
They should have made an Aaron movie. His backstory was compelling and layered enough that they could have used more of the screen time looking at that then having pensive "meetings" about the Bourne stuff happening and showing that reporter being shot again. WE SAW THAT IN THE OTHER MOVIE, DIDN'T NEED TO SHOW IT AGAIN, DIDN'T NEED TO TRY AND MAKE IT PART OF THIS CANON.
It's weird the stuff they treated as "assumed" knowledge (Pamela Landy - if you hadn't seen the other movies you would be like, what, who the hell is that - why do they keep showing her??) and the stuff they felt compelled to repeat.
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They should have made an Aaron movie. His backstory was compelling and layered enough that they could have used more of the screen time looking at that then having pensive "meetings" about the Bourne stuff happening and showing that reporter being shot again. WE SAW THAT IN THE OTHER MOVIE, DIDN'T NEED TO SHOW IT AGAIN, DIDN'T NEED TO TRY AND MAKE IT PART OF THIS CANON.
It's weird the stuff they treated as "assumed" knowledge (Pamela Landy - if you hadn't seen the other movies you would be like, what, who the hell is that - why do they keep showing her??) and the stuff they felt compelled to repeat.