History Film / JasonBourne

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gBnmKOixDM Super Bowl TV spot]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4gJsKZvqE4 Trailer]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_OK-Z7wCUs preview 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVrIlE7aCiM preview 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOGPBvZEvf8 preview 3]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skk4pkCVx6Y preview 4]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjuJdERDjYg preview 5]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdHisOlZwag preview 6]]).

* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Dewey is more than happy to let the Asset kill several of his own agents so he can sabotage Heather's plan to bring Jason in alive.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Dewey and the Asset, seeing as they actively murder their own people just to get one step closer to taking down Bourne. At the end, they get what they deserve. While at it, Bourne also warns Lee that she'll end up this way if she tries to come after him.]]

** Dewey's plans hinge on this. When he learns about Nicky's hack, he counts on her leading them to Bourne. When he figures out they're going to be meeting at a protest in Greece, he takes advantage to have the Asset kill Bourne. When Heather tries to talk Bourne into surrendering, he [[spoiler: has the Asset murder all of Heather's agents]], knowing Bourne wouldn't do it anyway. When his partner tries to blab on him, he has the Asset try to murder him and Heather. He also knew Bourne would come for him, and if it wasn't for Heather, Bourne would have been killed.
** Heather's plans [[spoiler: to replace Dewey as DCI]] also hinge on this. When reviewing Bourne's psych profile, she finds that Bourne can be manipulated once he's reached his tipping point, [[spoiler: which he has when Nicky's dead.]] From that point on she attempts to bring him in alive, even assisting him in infiltrating Dewey's hotel in Vegas, knowing that if Bourne kills Dewey, the DCI seat will be empty, and Bourne will be indebted to her.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Heather saving Bourne from Dewey]].
* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler: "Iron Hand" is revealed to be a plan for the CIA to have real time monitoring of everything people are doing using the wildly popular (1.6 billion users) Deep Dream apps and operating systems]].

* CallBack: As with ''Ultimatum,'' [[spoiler: a CIA operative connected to the founding of Treadstone is killed via car bomb while an asset watches from nearby.]]

** The chase sequence in Athens culminating in [[spoiler: Nicky's death]] is very reminiscent of the [[spoiler: chase sequence at the start of ''Supremacy'' which culminated in Marie's death]].

** Bourne's exposure of the Blackbriar program in ''Ultimatum'' is mentioned twice and is even a plot point [[spoiler: given that the Asset has a personal vendetta against Bourne because his cover was blown due to the latter's actions - though that's possibly a lie Dewey came up with to justify the Asset's desire to finish the job he started with Bourne's father, Richard Webb]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Surpassing the events of ''[[Film/TheBourneLegacy Legacy]]''. Even by the standards of the series, this film is the darkest of them all. Robert Dewey and the Asset are easily the most villainous characters of the series. Between the way they casually murder their own people, [[spoiler: the death of Bourne's most trusted ally,]] and the portrayal of institutionalized corruption in the American government and society, there are virtually no bright sides to the story. Of course, the kicker of it all is the last two scenes of the movie, where it's revealed that [[spoiler: Heather Lee is much less benevolent than Pamela Landy before her and is not an ally at all, just another power-hungry bureaucrat intending to use Bourne as her pawn and willing to kill him if he refuses, and that Bourne rightly distrusts her.]]
* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler: Creator/JuliaStiles as Nicky Parsons.]]
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler: After Dewey is killed by Heather, Bourne still spends ten minutes chasing down and then killing the Asset. Though considering [[YouKilledMyFather the man killed his father]], [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon this is very understandable]].]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Jason's father started Treadstone, but when he found out Dewey intended to put his son into it, he tried to shut it down and expose it. This led to Dewey having the Asset kill him to keep it secret.]]

* FalseFlagOperation: On a small scale, [[spoiler: Richard Webb's assassination]] was one. In addition to getting rid of a potential whistleblower, [[spoiler: his death, by being attributed to terrorists, served to motivate his son David to join Treadstone]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Bourne interrogates Malcolm Smith about [[spoiler: his father's death]], there's a clever bit of foreshadowing which approaches OneDialogueTwoConversations.
--> '''Bourne:''' Where is [my father's killer]?\\

''[A few moments later, [[spoiler: The Asset]] enters.]''

* GreaterScopeVillain: Due to his role in [[spoiler: the death of Jason's father]], Dewey is indirectly responsible for the events of the entire film series.

* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler: At the end, Heather Lee, who had seemingly been acting like a BigGood for the CIA, makes her power play to become Director following Dewey's death. When Bourne leaves the recording device in her car, indicating he heard her statement to the Director of Intelligence that she'll kill him if she can't bring him in, it leaves it open ended as to whether she'll become a future antagonist or back off due to the threat.]]

** Dewey ordered [[spoiler: Jason's father]] killed when he tried to expose Treadstone, and later tries to have Jason killed as well.

* HopeSpot: Just when it looks like Bourne and Nicky are going to escape together from Greece, [[spoiler: the Asset murders her.]]

* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler: Heather helps Bourne take down Dewey (and finishes him off) so that she can then convince the Director of National Intelligence to give her his job.]]

** Implied with [[spoiler: Heather Lee, whose website interview and her turning on Dewey makes it seem like the CIA might finally be getting a principled higher-up, but at the end she makes her power play to seize control of the Agency and may ultimately be as bad as Dewey down the road.]]

** David Webb joining Treadstone because [[spoiler: he believed his father was killed by terrorists]] is similar to his backstory in the original novels where [[spoiler: the death of his wife and two children during the Vietnam War led him into the world of covert ops]].

** Also, at the end where Lee finds out that [[spoiler: Bourne knows her little scheme all along]].
* OnceAnEpisode: {{Played with}}. [[spoiler: As with past films, there's still a car chase and a fight with another CIA assassin, but instead of the assassin fight being in the middle of the film, it's in the climax. And this time the assassin is chased by Bourne.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: While the police have been depicted as obstacles to Bourne in the previous movies, it was more because Bourne is a fugitive hiding from the CIA. In this movie, Bourne is able to go from Athens to Berlin, and it becomes obvious he did not fly, and he is on Interpol, so the police on all those countries dropped it. Then he is somehow able to get from Berlin to London and no one discovered his identity. While the border security in the U.S were ordered by Lee to stand down and let him in, the guards first reaction when Bourne shoots at the Asset is to chase Bourne, even though he stopped the assassination. During the chase scene, they still primarily go after Bourne, even though the Asset is killing civilians with their own SWAT van.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Heather sides with Jason when she realizes just how amoral Dewey is, especially when he tries to have her killed. [[spoiler: Though she had her own agenda the whole time]].

* ArtisticLicenseCars - As is generally the case with a chase scene, but a pretty egregious one that makes the chase scene possible: the Bearcat 454 that the Asset is driving is built like a tank on wheels, but has nowhere near the top speed of Bourne's peppy sports car. Bourne would've been able to outspeed and outmaneuver him while still only in third gear.[[note]]A Bearcat 454 or equivalent is a heavily armored wheeled vehicle - the key element being "heavy." As a result, it has an engine built for torque, not speed, since getting that mass moving is a tough task. Vehicles of that type generally max out at about 55 to 60 MPH. Thus, about 90% of what it does on screen is so far beyond the pale of reality that it places itself solidly within the orbit of heavy artistic license.[[/note]]

* BigBad: CIA Director Robert Dewey.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Heather saving Bourne from Dewey]].