Matt Damon is back cracking skulls and tracking down heartless bureaucrats this weekend in “Jason Bourne,” playing the title role for the first time in nearly a decade. The movie has a hard act to follow, coming after a pretty perfect trilogy of films that closed the loop on Jason Bourne/David Webb. But before you check out the new film this weekend, this Honest Trailer is a pretty good reminder of where the franchise has been.
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The ‘Bourne’ series has always been seen as a smarter, more realistic counterpoint to the James Bond films. But as this video points out, “The Bourne Identity,” “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum” essentially pares down the Robert Ludlum books they’re based on, delivering the same essential narrative each time out: Bourne is on the run and must evade an assassin out to get him, while a bunch of people try to track him down viasuper sophisticated tech. Easy breezy. But credit to each movie for doing it so well.
Check out the video below — “Jason Bourne” is on the run again starting tomorrow.
