History YMMV / JasonBourne

* MagnificentBitch: [[HeroAntagonist Heather Lee]] is the ambitious, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]], head of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Cyber Ops Division seeking to advance in the ranks of the agency. She first identifies and locates {{rogue agent}} Nicky Parsons as the one who stole the black ops files from Treadstone to Iron Hand, tracks her and has a small part in her death too. Heather is able to download malware into the files so she can trace them later on and then use a phone in the same room as an encrypted computer to delete the files. Heather seeks to convince Jason Bourne to return to the CIA as a valuable assassin rather than have him killed and when she learns of how corrupt both Director Robert Dewey and the Asset are, Heather helps Bourne sneak back to America through Las Vegas. When Heather realizes they are under suspicion, she alerts Bourne, later saves Bourne herself by killing Dewey and then once again tries to take power using her influence with Bourne, only for him to just barely outsmart her.

** UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[KnightOfCerebus Robert Dewey]], the BigBad of the film and the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past, Dewey was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and Jason Bourne's father Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on his son, he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation before manipulating Jason into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, Dewey spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend Nicky Parsons assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up Nicky's cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kaloor for undermining his authority.

** UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[BigBad Robert Dewey]], the GreaterScopeVillain of [[Film/TheBourneSeries the series]], seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past, Dewey was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and Jason Bourne's father Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on his son, he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation before manipulating Jason into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, Dewey spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend Nicky Parsons assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up Nicky's cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kaloor for undermining his authority.

* MagnificentBitch: [[HeroAntagonist Heather Lee]] is the ambitious, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]], head of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Cyber Ops Division seeking to advance in the ranks of the agency. She first identifies and locates {{rogue agent}} Nicky Parsons as the one who stole the black ops files from Treadstone to Iron Hand, tracks her and and has a small part in her death too. Heather is able to download malware into the files so she can trace them later on and then use a phone in the same room as an encrypted computer to delete the files. Heather seeks to convince Jason Bourne to return to the CIA as a valuable assassin rather than have him killed and when she learns of how corrupt both Director Robert Dewey and the Asset are, Heather helps Bourne sneak back to America through Las Vegas. When Heather realizes they are under suspicion, she alerts Bourne, later saves Bourne herself by killing Dewey and then once again tries to take power using her influence with Bourne, only for him to just barely outsmart her.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Whether or not Heather Lee is ever genuinely heroic in her actions aiding Bourne--or merely an entirely selfish power play to remove Dewey--and whether or not her declaration at the end to either turn Bourne or "put him down" is a sincere reflection of her intentions, or she was just telling her boss what she thought he wanted to hear and didn't realize Bourne was listening. The article about her saying she "joined the CIA because [she] wanted to make a difference" implies she believes in doing good, but whether or not she believes in the methods is left ambiguous. Heather playing Russell in the end could easily be because she wants Dewey's job and really doesn't care about what the CIA has to do with Bourne or anyone else, but leaning into the angle of "making a difference", Heather could be genuinely deceiving him with the purpose of having to keep playing the game because it's the only way to "make a difference"—especially with the black ops programming continuing to re-emerge regardless of the exposure.]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Whether or not Heather Lee is ever genuinely heroic in her actions aiding Bourne--or merely an entirely selfish power play to remove Dewey--and whether or not her declaration at the end to either turn Bourne or "put him down" is a sincere reflection of her intentions, or she was just telling her boss what she thought he wanted to hear and didn't realize Bourne was listening.]]

* MagnificentBitch: [[HeroAntagonist Heather Lee]] is the ambitious, but [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]], head of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Cyber Ops Division seeking to advance in the ranks of the agency. She first identifies and tracks {{rogue agent}} Nicky Parsons as the one who stole the black ops files from Treadstone to Iron Hand, tracks her and and has a small part in her death too. Heather is able to download malware into the files so she can trace them later on and then use a phone in the same room as an encrypted computer to delete the files. Heather seeks to convince Jason Bourne to return to the CIA as a valuable assassin rather than have him killed and when she learns of how corrupt Director Robert Dewey and the Asset are, Heather helps Bourne sneak back to America through Las Vegas. When Heather realizes they are under suspicion, she alerts Bourne, later saves Bourne herself by killing Dewey and then once again tries to take power using her influence with Bourne, only for him to just barely outsmart her.

** UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[BigBad Robert Dewey]], the GreaterScopeVillain of [[Film/TheBourneSeries the series]], seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past, Dewey was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and [[spoiler:Jason Bourne's father]] Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on [[spoiler:his son]], he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation before manipulating [[spoiler:Jason]] into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, Dewey spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend [[spoiler:Nicky Parsons]] assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up [[spoiler:Nicky's]] cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kaloor for undermining his authority.
** [[EvilCounterpart The Asset]], Dewey's chief henchman, is first seen during the chase scene in Athens, where he murders several bystanders just to set up a sniper nest with which to ambush Bourne and Nicky. The Asset later derails Heather Lee's attempt to make contact with Bourne by murdering his fellow CIA operatives sent to monitor the meeting, callously disregarding the fact that they are his comrades and that they have nothing to do with his beef with Bourne. Finally, after failing in his attempt to assassinate Kalloor and Lee in Vegas, the Asset murders a LVMP SWAT officer, hijacks his SWAT truck, and charges it straight into a traffic full of civilian cars just to put a few yards of distance from Bourne. In the climactic fight with [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon Bourne]], the Asset denounces Bourne as "a traitor, always has been a traitor," even though [[spoiler:[[NeverMyFault he's the one who railroaded Bourne into the CIA]] by [[ExternalCombustion using a car bomb]] to [[YouKilledMyFather kill Bourne's father]]]], a loyal CIA employee, and attributing it to a terrorist organization.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Whether or not Heather Lee is ever genuinely heroic in her actions aiding Bourne--or merely an entirely selfish power play to remove Dewey--and whether or not her declaration at the end to either turn Bourne or "put him down" is a sincere reflection of her intentions, or she was just telling her boss what she thought he wanted to hear and didn't realize Bourne was listening.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: During ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'', Bourne tells Nicky to cut and dye her hair to make it harder for the government to track her down, which she does and it seems to help. Come this film, it's back to being it's old length AND color, and since she's been painting a big target on her back with all the work she's been doing since ''Ultimatum'', her hair ultimately helps the government ID [[spoiler:and assassinate her.]] One wonders why she didn't just keep changing her hair.

** The requisite heavy-traffic car chase and code-named elite assassin on Jason's trail.

* WinBackTheCrowd: The announcement of the return of Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass returning for this movie was enough to win back Bourne fans who were not impressed by ''The Bourne Legacy''. Subsequent trailers and TV spots have ended up amplifying the hype for the true return of Jason Bourne.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The common complaint of ''Jason Bourne'' by critics; while it was expected to play some of the series' troperiffic hits, the [[StrictlyFormula lack of deviation from formula]] made the movie feel uninspired to critics, especially with well-received films like ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', ''Film/JohnWick'', ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', and ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' having raised the action bar in the nine-year ''Bourne'' hiatus. To list a few:

* ToughActToFollow: While it is slightly eased by the mixed reviews of ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'', one must take into consideration the critical acclaim that the original Bourne trilogy received. The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for each of the three films in the original trilogy are, rated from the first film to the third film, 83%, 81% and '''93%'''. ''Jason Bourne'' only got 56%, '''the exact percentage''' that ''The Bourne Legacy'' has.

** UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[BigBad Robert Dewey]], the GreaterScopeVillain of [[Film/TheBourneSeries the series]], seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past, Dewey was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and [[spoiler:Jason Bourne's father]] Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on [[spoiler:his son]], he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation before manipulating [[spoiler:Jason]] into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, Dewey spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly-popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend [[spoiler:Nicky Parsons]] assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up [[spoiler:Nicky's]] cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kaloor for undermining his authority.

** [[EvilCounterpart The Asset]], Dewey's chief henchman, is first seen during the chase scene in Athens, where he murders several bystanders just to set up a sniper nest with which to ambush Bourne and Nicky. The Asset later derails Heather Lee's attempt to make contact with Bourne by murdering his fellow CIA operatives sent to monitor the meeting, callously disregarding the fact that they are his comrades and that they have nothing to do with his beef with Bourne. Finally, after failing in his attempt to assassinate Kalloor and Lee in Vegas, the Asset murders a LVMP SWAT officer, hijacks his SWAT truck, and charges it straight into a traffic full of civilian cars just to put a few yards of distance from Bourne. In the climactic fight with [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon Bourne]], the Asset denounces Bourne as "a traitor, always has been a traitor," even though [[spoiler:[[NeverMyFault he's the one who railroaded Bourne into the CIA]] by [[ExternalCombustion using a car bomb]] to kill Bourne's [[YouKilledMyFather father]]]], a loyal CIA employee, and attributing it to a terrorist organization.

** While Dewey is the BigBad of the movie, his [[TheDragon chief henchman]], [[EvilCounterpart the Asset]], is just as monstrous. We get the first glimpse of his evil personality during the chase scene in Athens, where he murders several bystanders just to set up a sniper nest to ambush Bourne and Nicky with. Then, later, he derails Heather Lee's attempt to make contact with Bourne by murdering his fellow CIA operatives sent to monitor the meeting, callously disregarding the fact that they are his comrades and that they have nothing to do with his beef with Bourne. Finally, after failing in his attempt to assassinate Kalloor and Lee in Vegas, he murders a LVMP SWAT officer, hijacks his SWAT truck, and charges it straight into a traffic full of civilian cars just to put a few yards of distance from Bourne. In the climactic fight with [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon Bourne]], he denounces Bourne as "a traitor, always has been a traitor," even though [[spoiler:[[NeverMyFault he's the one who railroaded Bourne into the CIA]] by [[YouKilledMyFather car-bombing Bourne's father]]]], a loyal CIA employee, and attributing it to a terrorist organization. A complete {{hypocrite}} possessed by RevengeMyopia and ItsAllAboutMe mindset, the Asset has no regards whatsoever for the lives of civilians and even fellow CIA operatives he took, and as such is among the purest villains in the entire franchise.

* UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[BigBad Robert Dewey]], the GreaterScopeVillain of [[Film/TheBourneSeries the series]], seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past he was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder [[spoiler:and Jason Bourne's father]] Richard Webb found out that Dewey had his sights set on [[spoiler:his son]], he tried to shut down the program and go public about it, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation before manipulating [[spoiler:Jason]] into enlisting. Going on to oversee other shady government projects, he spearheads an operation known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly-popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and has Jason's friend [[spoiler:Nicky Parsons]] assassinated when she tries to leak info about it to the public. When Jason takes up [[spoiler:Nicky's]] cause, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kaloor for undermining his authority.

** UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Director [[BigBad Robert Dewey]], the GreaterScopeVillain of [[Film/TheBourneSeries the series]], seeks to [[KnightTemplar gain total control over the private lives of the American public]]. In the past he was one of the top minds behind Operation Treadstone, which used torture and brainwashing to turn U.S. servicemen into highly dangerous assassins. When Treadstone founder and [[spoiler:Jason Bourne's father Richard Webb]] found out that Dewey had his sights set on [[spoiler:his son]], he tried to shut down the program and go public about its illegal activities, only for Dewey to order his assassination in a FalseFlagOperation. Appealing to Jason's sense of patriotism, Dewey manipulated him into enlisting with Treadstone in the wake of [[spoiler:Richard's death]], paving the way for the recruitment—and torture--of more men, as well as setting the stage for future projects. In the present, he spearheads the illegal project known as Iron Hand, which uses a backdoor in the highly-popular social network platform Deep Dream to violate the privacy of millions of American citizens, and [[spoiler:has Jason's friend Nicky Parsons assassinated when she tries to leak info about it and similar projects to the public]]. When Jason [[spoiler:takes up Nicky's cause]], trying to uncover more secrets surrounding his past, Dewey hunts him, showing his ruthlessness by [[BadBoss having his own agents callously killed]] and threatening the safety of a former CIA employee's family should the man reveal anything to Bourne during a violent interrogation. During the film's climax, Dewey tries to use another false flag terrorist operation to kill both CIA employee Heather Lee—who helped Bourne return stateside--and his own co-conspirator Aaron Kalloor—who wants to back out of Dewey's plan.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The common complaint of ''Jason Bourne'' by critics; while it was expected to play some of the serie' troperific hits, the [[StrictlyFormula lack of deviation from formula]] made the movie feel uninspired to critics, especially with well-received films like ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', ''Film/JohnWick'', ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', and ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' having raised the action bar in the nine-year ''Bourne'' hiatus. To list a few:

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The common complaint of ''Jason Bourne'' by critics; while the series expected to play some of its troperific hits, the lack of deviation from formula made the movie feel uninspired to critics, especially with well-received films like ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', ''Film/JohnWick'', ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', and ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' having raised the action bar in the nine-year ''Bourne'' hiatus. To list a few:

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A common complaint by some reviewers, as the film's story beats are ripped straight from the first films without deviation.