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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Even though Dewey is dead, Heather is set to replace him, and Iron Hand is still viable]].

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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Even though Dewey is dead, Heather is set to replace him, and Iron Hand is still viable]].viable. Also, Bourne is now in D.C.--or at least for the time being until he pops up somewhere else]].
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* FireAlarmDistraction: At one point, the ever-resourceful Bourne floods a plaza with office workers by simultaneously setting off fire alarms in every building around the district.

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* RealityEnsues:
** Bourne and Nicky fail to escape the Asset's ambush in Athens because the CIA knows what route they're going to take. Badass as they are, they're still fighting the entire might of the U.S. government, and for once in the series, they actually had prep time.
** Bourne is noticeably slower in this film, due to his age and the injuries he's taken as an underground fighter.
** You know what happens when a murderous assassin such as the Asset takes control of an armoured SWAT truck? Bystanders die. Even Bourne is unable to put a stop to his driving rampage.
** [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum Bourne's exposing of Blackbriar]] results in operatives having their cover blown, which was what happened to the Asset in the past.
--->'''Dewey:''' The last time Bourne came back he exposed the Blackbriar program. It compromised active operations. The asset was in Syria, under cover. He was captured, tortured. And took two damn years to get him out.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Bourne and Nicky fail to escape the Asset's ambush in Athens because the CIA knows what route they're going to take. Badass as they are, they're still fighting the entire might of the U.S. government, and for once in the series, they actually had prep time.
** Bourne is noticeably slower in this film, due to his age and the injuries he's taken as an underground fighter.
** You know what happens when a murderous assassin such as the Asset takes control of an armoured SWAT truck? Bystanders die. Even Bourne is unable to put a stop to his driving rampage.
** [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum Bourne's exposing of Blackbriar]] results in operatives having their cover blown, which was what happened to the Asset in the past.
--->'''Dewey:''' The last time Bourne came back he exposed the Blackbriar program. It compromised active operations. The asset was in Syria, under cover. He was captured, tortured. And took two damn years to get him out.
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* 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]?\\
'''Dewey:''' He's almost there.\\
''[A few moments later, [[spoiler: The Asset]] enters.]''

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* ManipulativeBastard: Dewey manages to manipulate the events of the film like a string.

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Dewey manages to manipulate the events of the film like a string.



* MythologyGag: When Nicky is going over the hacked CIA files, [[Film/TheBourneLegacy Outcome and LARX]] are both listed.

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When Nicky is going over the hacked CIA files, [[Film/TheBourneLegacy Outcome and LARX]] are both listed.



* NoodleIncident: Nicky and Jason have apparently had several encounters in the 12 years since ''The Bourne Ultimatum.''

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Nicky and Jason have apparently had several encounters in the 12 years since ''The Bourne Ultimatum.''



-->'''Dewey:''' The last time Bourne came back he exposed the Black Briar program. It compromised active operations. The asset was in Syria, under cover. He was captured, tortured. And took two damn years to get him out.

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-->'''Dewey:''' --->'''Dewey:''' The last time Bourne came back he exposed the Black Briar Blackbriar program. It compromised active operations. The asset was in Syria, under cover. He was captured, tortured. And took two damn years to get him out.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in Film/UnderSiege where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in Film/UnderSiege ''Film/UnderSiege'' where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in [[Film/UnderSiege]] where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in [[Film/UnderSiege]] Film/UnderSiege where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in [[Film/Under Siege]] where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in [[Film/Under Siege]] [[Film/UnderSiege]] where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in '''Under Siege''' where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in '''Under Siege''' [[Film/Under Siege]] where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]].

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]]. He also plays an evil figure in the CIA, just as he did in '''Under Siege''' where coincidentally, he was a rogue CIA operative.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: As ambitious [[spoiler:as Heather can be and despite how much she just wants to keep advancing, she]] legit believes that doing so will help "make a difference".

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** Being roughly a decade later from the earlier films, a list shows all Treadstone-offshoot programs that had been developed, including Blackbriar from ''Ultimatum'' and Outcome and Larx from ''Legacy''.



* TimeSkip: This film is set 12 years after the events of ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'' (which, though released in 2007, was set in 2004 by virtue of being set immediately after the events of ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'').

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* TimeSkip: This film is set 12 years after the events of Relatively speaking, as both ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'' (which, though released in 2007, was and ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' were set in 2004 by virtue of being set immediately after [[ImmediateSequel concurrently]] with ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy''. It's less that there is a TimeSkip and more that the events of ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'').timeline is advanced to match the present day.
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** Implied with [[spoiler: Heather Lee who's 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.]]

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** Implied with [[spoiler: Heather Lee who's 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.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Dewey and the Asset, seeing as they actively murder their own people just to get one step closer to take 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.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Dewey and the Asset, seeing as they actively murder their own people just to get one step closer to take 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.]]
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* JitterCam: It's a Paul Greengrass movie.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TommyLeeJones stars as [[Film/MenInBlack an authority figure in a secretive government agency]] who's [[Film/TheFugitive hunting down a wanted fugitive]].


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* SpoilerCover: The film's release poster gives away the fact that [[spoiler:Heather Lee ends up on Bourne's side]].
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** After realizing that she will be killed unless she goes underground, in ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', Nicky cut and dyed her hair to make herself harder to find. Come this installment, she has grown her hair back out and let it return to natural colors, which makes it ''very'' easy for the government to find her. [[spoiler:And she does get killed for it.]]

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* ContinuityNod: Bourne's back has two bullet wound scars, the ones he picked up in ''Identity'', plus his chest has one from ''Supremacy''. The lack of a fourth answers the lingering question of whether or not Vosen was able to shoot him at the end of ''Ultimatum.''

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Bourne's back has two bullet wound scars, the ones he picked up in ''Identity'', plus his chest has one from ''Supremacy''. The lack of a fourth answers the lingering question of whether or not Vosen was able to shoot him at the end of ''Ultimatum.''



* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler: Creator/JuliaStiles as Nicky Parsons]]

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* DeadStarWalking: [[spoiler: Creator/JuliaStiles as Nicky Parsons]]Parsons.]]

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* TheStoic: Bourne is very stoic throughout the movie [[spoiler: except when interrogating a man about his father and, very briefly, when Nicky dies right in front of him.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Nicky Parsons bites the bullet during the chase in Greece, courtesy of the Asset]].

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* TheStoic: Bourne is very stoic throughout the movie [[spoiler: except [[spoiler:except when interrogating a man about his father and, very briefly, when Nicky dies right in front of him.him]].
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Nicky Parsons bites the bullet during the chase in Greece, courtesy of the Asset.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Nicky Parsons bites the bullet SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: DCI Robert Dewey for [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum Ezra Kramer]]. It falls into RememberTheNewGuy when characters seem to imply that Dewey was present and active during the chase in Greece, courtesy events of the Asset]].previous films, even though we've never heard of or seen him.
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* 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]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The plot points of ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' are not directly followed upon in this film, and most notably nothing is said about Pamela Landy's fate. Granted, there's a 12 years TimeSkip between the events of this film and those of ''Ultimatum'' and ''Legacy'', meaning a lot might have happened with zero relevance regarding the 2016 film's plot. The film does note that there are additional Treadstone-inspired assassination programs that continued after Bourne exposed Blackbriar, with "Outcome" and "Larx" (post Blackbriar programs brought up in ''Legacy'') included in the list Nicky Parsons hacks at the beginning.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The plot points of ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' are not directly followed upon in this film, and most notably nothing is said about the fates of Pamela Landy's fate.Landy, Noah Vosen, and Ezra Kramer. Granted, there's a 12 years TimeSkip between the events of this film and those of ''Ultimatum'' and ''Legacy'', meaning a lot might have happened with zero relevance regarding the 2016 film's plot. The film does note that there are additional Treadstone-inspired assassination programs that continued after Bourne exposed Blackbriar, with "Outcome" and "Larx" (post Blackbriar programs brought up in ''Legacy'') included in the list Nicky Parsons hacks at the beginning.
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''Jason Bourne'' is a ConspiracyThriller directed by Creator/PaulGreengrass and starring Creator/MattDamon as the eponymous ex-intelligence operative, Jason Bourne, released on July 29th, 2016. It marks the fifth film in Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', as well as being a sequel to two films: ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', and ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''. Julia Stiles reprises her role of Nicky Parsons and newcomers include Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/VincentCassel.

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''Jason Bourne'' is a ConspiracyThriller directed by Creator/PaulGreengrass and starring Creator/MattDamon as the eponymous ex-intelligence operative, Jason Bourne, released on July 29th, 2016. It marks the fifth film in Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', as well as being a sequel to two films: ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', and ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''. Julia Stiles Creator/JuliaStiles reprises her role of Nicky Parsons and newcomers include Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/VincentCassel.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Surpassing the events of ''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.]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Surpassing the events of ''Legacy''.''[[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.]]
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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]]).

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Previews: '''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]]).

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** Bourne's exposing Blackbriar results in operatives getting burned.

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** [[Film/TheBourneUltimatum Bourne's exposing Blackbriar of Blackbriar]] results in operatives getting burned.having their cover blown, which was what happened to the Asset in the past.
-->'''Dewey:''' The last time Bourne came back he exposed the Black Briar program. It compromised active operations. The asset was in Syria, under cover. He was captured, tortured. And took two damn years to get him out.



* VehicleVanish: At one moment, while Bourne is walking away, a white van obscures the screen. After the van is gone, Bourne is gone as well.
* WhamShot: In Bourne's flashbacks, during the [[spoiler:car-bombing of his father]], Bourne sees a black car depart with the driver's face visible, which is blurred and hints at the real perpetrator of the incident. [[OnceMoreWithClarity But when the scene is repeated later on]], with Bourne remembering more of this moment, the driver's face in the flashback clarifies to reveal [[spoiler:the Asset]].

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* VehicleVanish: At one moment, while Bourne is walking away, a white van obscures the screen. After the van is gone, Bourne is gone as well.
* WhamShot: In Bourne's flashbacks, during the [[spoiler:car-bombing of his father]], Bourne sees a black car depart with the driver's face visible, which is blurred and hints blurred, hinting at the real perpetrator of the incident. [[OnceMoreWithClarity But when the scene is repeated later on]], with Bourne remembering more of this moment, the driver's face in the flashback clarifies to reveal [[spoiler:the Asset]].



* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: The Asset killed Bourne's father, on orders from Dewey.]]

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* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Asset killed Bourne's father, on orders from Dewey.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: When the Asset corners Bourne and Smith on the roof, Bourne uses Smith as a bullet shield and then escapes. A hero who does that is either an Anti Hero or a SociopathichHero, except that Smith was monitoring a child and later participated in the murder of said child's father to drive him into a very illegal program, and likely did this to other children. Either way, no one is really too upset at Bourne's stunt with him.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: When the Asset corners Bourne and Smith on the roof, Bourne uses Smith as a bullet shield and then escapes. A hero who does that is either an Anti Hero or a SociopathichHero, SociopathicHero, except that Smith was monitoring a child and later participated in the murder of said child's father to drive him into a very illegal program, and likely did this to other children. Either way, no one is really too upset at Bourne's stunt with him.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Surpassing the events of ''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.]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Surpassing the events of ''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]], 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.]]
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* HopeSpot: Just when it looks like Bourne and Nicky is going to escape together from Greece, [[spoiler: the Asset murders her.]]

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* HopeSpot: Just when it looks like Bourne and Nicky is are going to escape together from Greece, [[spoiler: the Asset murders her.]]
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** Bourne also snaps the leg off a chair during his brief fight with Dassault
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''Jason Bourne'' is a ConspiracyThriller directed by Creator/PaulGreengrass and staring Creator/MattDamon as the eponymous ex-intelligence operative, Jason Bourne, released on July 29th, 2016. It marks the fifth film in Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', as well as being a sequel to two films: ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', and ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''. Julia Stiles reprises her role of Nicky Parsons and newcomers include Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/VincentCassel.

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''Jason Bourne'' is a ConspiracyThriller directed by Creator/PaulGreengrass and staring starring Creator/MattDamon as the eponymous ex-intelligence operative, Jason Bourne, released on July 29th, 2016. It marks the fifth film in Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', as well as being a sequel to two films: ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', and ''Film/TheBourneLegacy''. Julia Stiles reprises her role of Nicky Parsons and newcomers include Creator/AliciaVikander, Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/VincentCassel.

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