All the Bourne movies are so good. How can you have the same star and director and make another action movie in the same vein that's so predictable and at times boring? You make it follow a political agenda, that's how. All the (Republican) administration characters are portrayed as cold and manipulative and their henchmen kill everyone on sight, while Damon's character seems to be the only reasonable person in the story because he wants to discuss and understand his Iraqi enemies. The search for WMDs and his frustration with the process made him seem less like a hero and more like a whiner. The ending is also predictable and unchallenging. Too bad that they had the makings for another Hurt Locker but they torpedoed it with their agenda -- no wonder it stank up the box office.