His escape route sends him all over the globe, from Greece to London to Las Vegas. Now that Damon has returned for his fourth go-around as Bourne, writers Greengrass and Christopher Rouse employ the same basic blueprint as Jason Bourne’s predecessors: After he’s set on the run, Bourne evades capture through a combination of brutal hand-to-hand combat and intense driving. And when Damon was either uninterested or unavailable to make another Bourne sequel, Universal released The Bourne Legacy (2012), a spin-off starring Jeremy Renner as another engineered character the U.S. Helmer of The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and its immediate sequel, Greengrass reteamed with Damon for Green Zone (2010), an underseen Iraq War actioner about a bogus search for WMDs.
So, instead of just making more movies about Jason Bourne, Universal Studios and director Paul Greengrass have danced around the franchise since 2007.
Of course, letting a proven blockbuster franchise end has an opportunity cost few Hollywood studios can ignore. The Bourne Ultimatum (seemingly) ended the trilogy on a very satisfying note, carrying our hero through an arc that cleverly interconnected all three movies. The prospect of another sequel in this franchise is met with conflicted feelings. As a result, Jason Bourne’s audience is left with a frightening case of technophobia-almost as nasty a case as spread by Alex Gibney’s recent doc Zero Days. government pursuers, the surveillance technologies involved in the usual Bourne scenario have made incredible leaps and bounds, which enhance the tension here. Fortunately, given that almost a decade has passed since the titular protagonist last out-witted his U.S. Indeed, the series launched with 2002’s The Bourne Identity and has remained devoted to its basic structure in every Bourne movie since, arguably to a fault. But rather than change their formula or cast aside a solid name-brand, the filmmakers avoid detracting much from the established formula. After all, in 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, where we last saw Matt Damon’s amnesiac super-soldier, it was revealed Jason Bourne’s real name is David Webb.
If you’re a fan of the movies based on author Robert Ludlum’s brainwashed spy character Jason Bourne, you might approach the fifth entry, entitled Jason Bourne, scratching your head.
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