Director Paul Greengrass got the band back together for the fourth Bourne sequel, bringing Matt Damon’s turn at Robert Ludlum’s iconic character another shot at the big screen. And while there’s some cool ideas at work in the story, when the plot makes it ‘personal’ for Bourne to get him involved in the narrative, the…
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The Bourne Identity (2002) – Doug Liman
Matt Damon takes on the role of Robert Ludlum’s most famous creation in the 2002 adaptation of his novel. While it could be argued that Paul Greengrass perfected the Bourne storytelling style with Supremacy and Ultimatum, Liman introduced all the visual language of that style in the first film. When compared to its sequels, even…
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
So I took in the latest in the Bourne series yesterday, The Bourne Legacy, with Jeremy Renner taking the lead as a new character to be introduced into the expanded film universe originally created by Robert Ludlum, and brought to life on the big screen with Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Renner plays Aaron Cross, another…
The Mind Reels 