B is also also for Bourne
Bite-sized summaries of the Bourne franchise.
The Bourne Identity (2002): A recently shot Italian fishing haul amnesiac attempts to uncover the secrets of his past while being pursued by assassins, which leads him to the astonishing discovery that he is, in fact, a resourceful and deadly Matt Damon.
The Bourne Supremacy (2004): When Damon’s co-star from the first movie is murdered to provide dubious motivation for an action-packed revenge world tour, he responds just as you or I would, with a frenetic and deadly car chase through the streets of Moscow.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): Damon’s desperate attempt to escape the franchise before it is overrun by an ever-increasing number of ludicrously named operations (‘Treadstone’, ‘Blackbriar’, ‘Ironclad’, ‘Cupcake’, ‘Shadowstrike’) is violently successful, and he slinks into the shadows of the set of Invictus.Â
The Bourne Legacy (2012): When Jeremy Renner uncovers a dangerous conspiracy to make him the new star of the franchise, by providing him with ‘chems’, pills that improbably prevent him from being a dimwitted klutz, he retaliates in the only way he knows how, by underwhelming at the box office.
Jason Bourne (2016): Nine years after he escaped, Damon is reluctantly dragged back into the franchise via a tired daddy issues trope, leading him to seek cruel vengeance by titling the movie in such a way as to cause grave discomfort for alphabetical filers of DVD collections.
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