He believes that Bourne should be dispatched by an assassin known only as The Asset (Vincent Cassel, who is an asset indeed), whereas his shrewd lieutenant (Alicia Vikander) argues that Bourne can be persuaded to rejoin the Agency.

Bourne is intrigued enough to investigate further, but his enquiries upset the CIA’s director (Tommy Lee Jones, providing the air of elder-statesman gravitas and deviousness that Brian Cox, Chris Cooper, David Strathairn and Albert Finney brought to prior instalments). The fact that the viewer gets to see an alarmingly muscular Damon with his top off is, I’m sure, an unintended bonus.Īt any rate, Bourne’s anonymous existence is interrupted when his old CIA buddy Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) tracks him down to share some new information about his murky past. It’s disappointing that he hasn’t made more productive use of his phenomenal skills, but the idea is that he was traumatised by his time as a brainwashed black-ops killer. Instead, the movie centres upon Aaron Cross, another secretive operative, as played by Jeremy Renner.Since we last saw him, Bourne has been living off the grid as a bare-knuckle boxer. The Bourne Legacy is perhaps most notable for NOT focusing on Jason Bourne/Matt Damon. That was until Universal Pictures decided to revive the world of Bourne through a spin-off/sequel – The Bourne Legacy. The three films (temporarily) completed the story, and for five years existed as a self-contained trilogy.

Directed by Doug Liman, the film was both a critical and commercial success and was followed by 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy and 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum – both adaptations of Ludlum’s original novels. The Bourne Identity was the initial entry, which introduced Matt Damon as an amnesiac with a huge secret. The series began in 2002 and has since expanded to a series of pictures mostly (but not always) featuring Damon. The Matt Damon Jason Bourne saga Image: ©Universal PicturesĪnd now onto the Bourne movie series that has made the greatest impact at the box office and with audiences – the Bourne film collection featuring Matt Damon.

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