A look back at the original Bourne trilogy
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the original Jason Bourne trilogy, its impact on action cinema, and whether it still holds up…
At a time when the Bond franchise was growing tired, and a slew of over the top action films attempted to have either edge or attitude (
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The Matrix, another franchise came along and shook the genre. Based on the Robert Ludlum novels, the Bourne trilogy told the tale of trained government assassin Jason Bourne. Beginning with
The Bourne Identity, which cast Matt Damon as an action hero, we meet Bourne being fished out of the sea with bullets in his back and no memory. From then on it’s a three film quest to find out exactly who he is, whilst trying to evade the sniper scope of a litany of rival hitmen sent by agency officials to cover their mistakes and corrupt government officials with dark secrets to hide.