Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Jason Bourne" has everything going for it except a reason why. As noted, this is not strictly necessary.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
Damon, his eternal boyishness finally settling into the inevitability of middle age, brings the personal touch this movie needs. Its action is generic, but he's always special.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Jones's dyspeptic deadpan is the only fun thing in Jason Bourne.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Just as the initial Damon-driven trilogy wrapped up Bourne's business but left us wanting more, this sequel offers closure even as it entices us with the possibility of his return.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
If a summer picture can be both vaguely disappointing in relation to its franchise predecessors yet worth seeing in relation to its multiplex neighbors, "Jason Bourne" is that picture.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
The thrill isn't entirely gone. It's just a little more subdued.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Despite regurgitating elements from the founding trilogy, Jason Bourne represents the best the series has yet offered.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Jason Bourne has already given us a hero who transcends two dimensions. We just need to know more about what he's fighting for.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
All this plays out at a breakneck pace that is paradoxically unengaging, despite the nonstop action.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
The action scenes just about justify the existence of this fourth instalment.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Tribune News Service
Damon and Greengrass ably right the ship, delivering a Bourne film that looks and feels like the kind that we've always loved.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
A by-the-numbers action film that's not nearly as strong as its Damon-led predecessors.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
If this is the best "Bourne" this team can deliver after nine years away - maybe it'd just be better next time if they forgot the whole thing.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Damon is terrific as the impressively skilled yet poignantly haunted Bourne. Jones is malevolence personified as Dewey. And Vikander lends a steely confidence to Lee.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
An idea-starved vestigial tail on the Bourne trilogy that wrapped up nicely nine years ago.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Jason Bourne is the best action thriller of the year so far, with a half-dozen terrific chase sequences and fight scenes. At one point the action swings to Vegas, and while some of what transpires is almost cartoonishly over-the-top, it's great fun.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
There's a greatest-hits quality to the movie, only the band is tired and its heart isn't in it.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Technically and logistically, Greengrass delivers everything you expect from him; there's no one better when it comes to staging complex, chaotic action amid the real life of big cities.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Jason Bourne may underwhelm those lusting for another Ultimatum or Supremacy. They'll probably wish for more of those movies' neck-snapping, action-movie insanity.

Name : Jim Slotek / Alias : Toronto Sun
It reunites director Greengrass and once-and-future (and still buff) Matt Damon for a Jason Bourne movie so familiar-in-a-good-way that they dispensed with a Ludlum-esque title descriptor and simply called it Jason Bourne.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Rather than push this character or story forward, the film cravenly hits the reset button, doing more of the same with much less passion and skill.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Damon is still compulsively watchable as Bourne, still haunted even if he's found some of the answers he's been looking for.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
So-so Bourne beats most of what else is out there.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Its narrative hopscotch loses the tight personal focus that made its antihero so compelling, and saps the cinematic urgency that made the earlier movies so robust.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
Even when Jason Bourne doesn't click with the same rhythm as its predecessors, it has a weight that outclasses nearly every other big action movie around.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Until its final act, "Jason Bourne" is just another Jason Bourne movie. Producers seemingly couldn't even think up another title.

Name : Brian Tallerico / Alias : RogerEbert.com
The film is like Jason Bourne fan fiction in how much it completely reworks things we've seen before, only with a few more years of cyberterrorism buzzwords to give viewers the illusion of not just depth but a plot.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
Director Paul Greengrass tries to up the perambulatory drama with lots of cuts, swishes, jiggles, and wobbles from his camera and swellings from his soundtrack, but the energy just isn't there.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
It's the opposite of exciting. It's the visual equivalent of white noise, and if you're not careful, you might fall asleep.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
The movie gets lost in its focus on flash and speed, and forgets about the man - and the fine, quiet actor - at its center.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Jason Bourne finally knows who he is. But Jason Bourne doesn't know how to process that information.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A ho-hum entry in the previously electrifying franchise.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : TheWrap
This fourth entry after a nine-year break for Damon and Greengrass should represent, for those ready and able to separate popcorn mayhem from the grim realities of world headlines, a bruising and exhilarating ride.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Made with a palpable sense of urgency, this tense, propulsive motion picture is a model of what mainstream entertainment can be like when everything goes right.

Name : Brian Lowry / Alias : CNN.com
The action is characteristically stylish and breathtakingly fast.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Bourne used to be an anguished amnesiac. Now he remembers who he is, but this fourth episode of the franchise forgot to make him human.