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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The series has a very tense, recognizable, and charming score with the template set by John Powell
** Most fans know the theme of the movies to be the single from Music/{{Moby}}, "Extreme Ways". While not explicitly about Jason Bourne himself, the song has become iconic with the character, and has been present during the end credits all five films. It was redone starting with ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum''.
** The ever so tense [[https://youtu.be/wsSJAuHDh3w chase theme]] with a different flavor for each film such as the audibly UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}}-[=set=] [[https://youtu.be/iRZ_itT50l4 version]] of ''Ultimatum''.
** ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' may not exactly be a fan favorite, but admit it, you loved how they added an entire symphony for the song at the end.
** Fitting the tradition, ''Film/JasonBourne'' also remixed the iconic single which comes across like it took an element from all previous renditions and combined it into one. The result is nothing short of badass.
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* MagnificentBastard: Jason Bourne himself is an unstoppable, exceptionally dangerous man who has made his mark as one of film's most badass super spies. Born "David Webb", he was the first volunteer for the Treadstone program, taking the name Jason Bourne and becoming the CIA's most efficient operative. Upon losing his memory when his morals cost him a mission, Bourne becomes a rogue agent in his attempt to find the truth about his past, skillfully evading all forms of law enforcement and government interference as he traverses the globe. Bourne is a master of cat-and-mouse, capable of dodging dozens of cameras and enemy eyes with little hassle, and he is just as proficient in giving or avoiding chase, as he demonstrates incredible evasive maneuvers multiple times both on foot and on wheels. Proficient in hand-to-hand combat, Bourne regularly brutalizes multiple policemen at a time, and with his ability to turn almost anything into a weapon, he consistently outperforms his fellow Treadstone assassins both tactically and physically. In his quest for the truth, Bourne humiliates and dismantles his CIA pursuers on the regular, even turning some of them into his allies, and though he loses several loved ones like Marie or Nicky, he always avenges them tenfold. By the time Bourne is done with those working against him, multiple black ops divisions have been exposed to the public; the men behind Treadstone and who killed Bourne's father are dead; and Bourne has vanished without a trace once more, never to be found until he chooses.
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** ''[[Film/TheBourneIdentity Identity]]'' & ''[[Film/TheBourneSupremacy Supremacy]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Ward Abbott]] is a corrupt UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} chief, serving as one of the architects of Operation Treadstone and the head of its day-to-day operations. Abbott oversaw the creation of Treadstone and the implementation of its many [[TrainingFromHell brutal training]] routines, involving torture and psychological rewiring of soldiers into killing machines. After Abbott stole millions of dollars of CIA money with the help of Yuri Gretkov, Abbott tested Treadstone's capabilities by assassinating politician Vladimir Neski and his wife to silence their outrage against Gretkov's corruption. With dozens of people--terrorist, political dissident, and American citizen alike--murdered by Treadstone's operatives on Abbott's watch, Abbott later murders his subordinate Alexander Conklin to [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit pin everything on him]] and rebrand Treadstone as "Blackbriar" to continue its operations. Later using Gretkov to kill off multiple CIA operatives and [[FrameUp frame Jason Bourne]] for their deaths, Abbott tries to assassinate Bourne to cover his tracks--getting Bourne's lover Marie murdered in the process--and when he is nearing exposure, Abbott stabs his own assistant to death for unintentionally deducing Abbott's criminal activities. Even when he is DrivenToSuicide by exposure, Abbott reiterates that he feels no remorse for anything he has done, proclaiming himself a patriot to his last breath.
** ''Film/JasonBourne'':
*** 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 Kalloor 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 [[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.
** ''[[Film/TheBourneIdentity Identity]]'' & ''[[Film/TheBourneSupremacy Supremacy]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Ward Abbott]] is a corrupt UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} chief, serving as one of the architects of Operation Treadstone and the head of its day-to-day operations. Abbott oversaw the creation of Treadstone and the implementation of its many [[TrainingFromHell brutal training]] routines, involving torture and psychological rewiring of soldiers into killing machines. After Abbott stole millions of dollars of CIA money with the help of Yuri Gretkov, Abbott tested Treadstone's capabilities by assassinating politician Vladimir Neski and his wife to silence their outrage against Gretkov's corruption. With dozens of people--terrorist, political dissident, and American citizen alike--murdered by Treadstone's operatives on Abbott's watch, Abbott later murders his subordinate Alexander Conklin to [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit pin everything on him]] and rebrand Treadstone as "Blackbriar" to continue its operations. Later using Gretkov to kill off multiple CIA operatives and [[FrameUp frame Jason Bourne]] for their deaths, Abbott tries to assassinate Bourne to cover his tracks--getting Bourne's lover Marie murdered in the process--and when he is nearing exposure, Abbott stabs his own assistant to death for unintentionally deducing Abbott's criminal activities. Even when he is DrivenToSuicide by exposure, Abbott reiterates that he feels no remorse for anything he has done, proclaiming himself a patriot to his last breath.
** ''Film/JasonBourne'':
*** 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 Kalloor 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 [[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.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: One of the problems with ''Legacy'' and ''Jason Bourne'' is that they undo the [[EarnYourHappyEnding hard-won victory]] at the conclusion of ''Ultimatum'', showing that the bad guys managed to prevent the incriminating documents from being made public and covered their tracks further by slandering and murdering even more people than they already had. In a world as drab, bleak and depressing as the ''Bourne'' movies already are, [[FanonDiscontinuity many fans simply choose to pretend that the latter two movies simply never happened]] in order to enjoy ''some'' ray of sunshine.
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* SongAssociation: Music/{{Moby}}'s "Extreme Ways", due to it being used as the credits song for each movie. The first trailer for ''Jason Bourne'' only needed the song's ''first two notes''[[note]]A violin triad held for a whole note, admittedly pretty iconic[[/note]] to signify that the movie it was advertising was a Bourne movie.
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* SongAssociation: Music/{{Moby}}'s "Extreme Ways", due to it being used as the credits credit's song for each movie. The first trailer for ''Jason Bourne'' only needed the song's ''first two notes''[[note]]A violin triad held for a whole note, admittedly pretty iconic[[/note]] to signify that the movie it was advertising was a Bourne movie.movie.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: One of the problems with ''Legacy'' and ''Jason Bourne'' is that they undo the [[EarnYourHappyEnding hard-won victory]] at the conclusion of ''Ultimatum'', showing that the bad guys managed to prevent the incriminating documents from being made public and covered their tracks further by slandering and murdering even more people than they already had. In a world as drab, bleak and depressing as the ''Bourne'' movies already are, [[FanonDiscontinuity many fans simply choose to pretend that the latter two movies simply never happened]] in order to enjoy ''some'' ray of sunshine.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: One of the problems with ''Legacy'' and ''Jason Bourne'' is that they undo the [[EarnYourHappyEnding hard-won victory]] at the conclusion of ''Ultimatum'', showing that the bad guys managed to prevent the incriminating documents from being made public and covered their tracks further by slandering and murdering even more people than they already had. In a world as drab, bleak and depressing as the ''Bourne'' movies already are, [[FanonDiscontinuity many fans simply choose to pretend that the latter two movies simply never happened]] in order to enjoy ''some'' ray of sunshine.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While the series has been rightfully credited with refreshing the SpyFiction genre on film in the 2000s, there's been a new surge in the demand for more escapist "fun" in the genre since the early 2010s and its [[StrictlyFormula strict formula]] and aversion to TuxedoAndMartini-[=like=] tropes (which Film/JamesBond had re-embraced with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', ditto the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' with ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol]]'') are part of the reasons why ''Film/JasonBourne'' didn't feel as fresh as the trilogy once did.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While the series has been rightfully credited with refreshing the SpyFiction genre on film in the 2000s, there's been a new surge in the demand for more escapist "fun" in the genre since the early 2010s and its [[StrictlyFormula strict formula]] and aversion to TuxedoAndMartini-[=like=] tropes (which Film/JamesBond had re-embraced with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', ditto the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' with ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission Impossible: ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol Ghost Protocol]]'') are part of the reasons why ''Film/JasonBourne'' didn't feel as fresh as the trilogy once did.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While the series has been rightfully credited with refreshing the SpyFiction genre on film in the 2000s, there's been a new surge in the demand for more escapist "fun" in the genre since the early 2010s and its [[StrictlyFormula strict formula]] and aversion to TuxedoAndMartini-[=like=] tropes (which Film/JamesBond had re-embraced with ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', ditto the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'' with ''[[Film/MissionImpossible Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol]]'') are part of the reasons why ''Film/JasonBourne'' didn't feel as fresh as the trilogy once did.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled wink-wink type of spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman Creator/DougLiman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Tony Scott Creator/TonyScott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Creator/JerryBruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema Creator/NewLineCinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled wink-wink type of spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: One may argue that the Bourne series [[MyRealDaddy has two daddies]] with Creator/DougLiman and Creator/PaulGreengrass. With ''The Bourne Identity'', director Doug Liman gave the film a unique style, but it was Paul Greengrass who would flesh it out in its sequels ''The Bourne Supremacy'' and ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', with Liman still involved as executive producer, garnering even greater acclaim. But when Greengrass turned down the offer to direct ''The Bourne Legacy'', Creator/MattDamon left with him, saying he wouldn't do any more movies without him, and Liman left too. This is part of why ''Legacy'' wasn't as well-received as its predecessors. It should be noted that Tony Gilroy wrote all four films (and directed ''Legacy''). The fact that he wasn't involved with ''Jason Bourne'' even though Greengrass and Damon returned probably led to it also not being as well-received as the original trilogy.
* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: One may argue that the Bourne series [[MyRealDaddy has two daddies]] with Creator/DougLiman and Creator/PaulGreengrass. With ''The Bourne Identity'', director Doug Liman gave the film a unique style, but it was Paul Greengrass who would flesh it out in its sequels ''The Bourne Supremacy'' and ''The Bourne Ultimatum'', with Liman still involved as executive producer, garnering even greater acclaim. But when Greengrass turned down the offer to direct ''The Bourne Legacy'', Creator/MattDamon left with him, saying he wouldn't do any more movies without him, and Liman left too. This is part of why ''Legacy'' wasn't as well-received as its predecessors. It should be noted that Tony Gilroy wrote all four films (and directed ''Legacy''). The fact that he wasn't involved with ''Jason Bourne'' even though Greengrass and Damon returned probably led to it also not being as well-received as the original trilogy.
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* DesignatedHero: Arkadin, in the flashbacks of his past. The narration is meant to make readers sympathize with him, his tormented life in Nizhny Tagil, and his struggle against various Russian crime bosses. The problem is that, even considering all that, he is still a murderer, a terrorist, in a life of crime for selfish gains, and no better than any other Russian gangsters he kills.
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* DesignatedHero: Arkadin, in the flashbacks of his past. The narration is meant to make readers sympathize with him, his tormented life in Nizhny Tagil, and his struggle against various Russian crime bosses. The problem is that, even considering all that, he is still a murderer, a terrorist, in a life of crime for selfish gains, and no better than any other the Russian gangsters he kills.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled wink-wink type of spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Michael Bay Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled wink-wink type of spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheBourneUltimatum The Bourne Ultimatum]]''
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* ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheBourneSupremacy The Bourne Supremacy]]''
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* 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:
** The first act chase scene echoes almost beat for beat the India and Waterloo Station chase scenes of the prior movies, making it very easy to discern that Nicky Parsons, like Marie and Simon Ross before her, was not long for the movie.
** An esteemed older, white male actor asked to do nothing but bark orders in a CIA control room and growl about killing Jason Bourne, here Tommy Lee Jones taking the mantle from Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and David Strathairn before him.
** The CIA running yet ''another'' thinly-veiled black-ops program under another name, this time "Iron Hand".
** Jason ''still'' learning the origin of his assassin life; this time, he learns his father helped created Treadstone.
** The requisite heavy-traffic car chase and code-named elite assassin on Jason's trail.
** A sequel hook that reveals Bourne is ''still'' not free of the CIA's wishes to terminate him.
** The first act chase scene echoes almost beat for beat the India and Waterloo Station chase scenes of the prior movies, making it very easy to discern that Nicky Parsons, like Marie and Simon Ross before her, was not long for the movie.
** An esteemed older, white male actor asked to do nothing but bark orders in a CIA control room and growl about killing Jason Bourne, here Tommy Lee Jones taking the mantle from Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and David Strathairn before him.
** The CIA running yet ''another'' thinly-veiled black-ops program under another name, this time "Iron Hand".
** Jason ''still'' learning the origin of his assassin life; this time, he learns his father helped created Treadstone.
** The requisite heavy-traffic car chase and code-named elite assassin on Jason's trail.
** A sequel hook that reveals Bourne is ''still'' not free of the CIA's wishes to terminate him.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar Daniel Bruhl]] as Marie's brother in one of the opening scenes of ''Ultimatum''.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond molded in the image of the two ''Bourne'' movies released before it, marrying sensibilities of that series to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond molded in the image of the two ''Bourne'' movies released before it, marrying sensibilities of that series to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.commercially.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', the two ''Bourne'' movies released before it, marrying sensibilities of the latter that series to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops and rogue agents as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops and rogue agents as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''Film/XxX'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops and rogue agents as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''Film/XxX'' ''[[Film/XxX xXx]]'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops and rogue agents as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Doug Liman constantly clashed with executives, who demanded a more high-octane action movie in the vein of Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, which were all the rage at the TurnOfTheMillennium, and had a production that went beyond schedule. The film also reportedly posted the worst test screening responses in studio history, which was enough for Universal to virtually give up on the movie, even though ''Film/AustinPowers'' a couple of years prior bucked the worst test screenings for New Line Cinema to become a CashCowFranchise. Universal, thinking they needed to cut their losses, put the movie head-to-head with ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' in hopes that it would be quietly buried in the face of what was expected to be a box office juggernaut. However, the film got advance positive word from critics, which fueled an overperforming box office and solid final tally in the heat of a crowded summer, and becoming a GenreTurningPoint as ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' wore out audiences on the over-the-top gadget-and-CG-filled wink-wink type of spy movie later that year. Universal, with renewed hope, gave next director Paul Greengrass a lot more freedom to work, resulting in a CashCowFranchise of their own.
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* GenreTurningPoint: ''The Bourne Identity'' was seen as a welcome, "adult" relief from action and spy movies in the vein of StuffBlowingUp [=Bay/Bruckheimer=] movies, where even the Jack Ryan movie that year (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ironically starring Damon's best friend Ben Affleck) had its share of nuclear-explosion CG pyrotechnics. With maligned movies ''Film/XxX'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' driving a stake in the gadgets-and-girls over-the-top spy fiction for the time, movies began to crib from the playbook of ''Bourne'', emphasizing government ops and rogue agents as villains as opposed to scene-chewing megalomaniacs hell-bent on world destruction; a steely-eyed human hero over swaggering, quippy protagonists; avoiding the EiffelTowerEffect in globe-trotting; and going with brutal close-quarters combat and realistic gunplay over gadgets. No movie embodied the results of the ''Bourne'' turning point than ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', a James Bond successfully molded in the image of ''Bourne'', marrying sensibilities of the latter to the Bond formula to great, reinventing success critically and commerically.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[CaptainAmericaCivilWar Daniel Bruhl]] as Marie's brother in one of the opening scenes of ''Ultimatum''.
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* 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:
** The first act chase scene echoes almost beat for beat the India and Waterloo Station chase scenes of the prior movies, making it very easy to discern that Nicky Parsons, like Marie and Simon Ross before her, was not long for the movie.
** An esteemed older, white male actor asked to do nothing but bark orders in a CIA control room and growl about killing Jason Bourne, here Tommy Lee Jones taking the mantle from Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and David Strathairn before him.
** The CIA running yet ''another'' thinly-veiled black-ops program under another name, this time "Iron Hand".
** Jason ''still'' learning the origin of his assassin life; this time, he learns his father helped created Treadstone.
** The requisite heavy-traffic car chase and code-named elite assassin on Jason's trail.
** A sequel hook that reveals Bourne is ''still'' not free of the CIA's wishes to terminate him.
** The first act chase scene echoes almost beat for beat the India and Waterloo Station chase scenes of the prior movies, making it very easy to discern that Nicky Parsons, like Marie and Simon Ross before her, was not long for the movie.
** An esteemed older, white male actor asked to do nothing but bark orders in a CIA control room and growl about killing Jason Bourne, here Tommy Lee Jones taking the mantle from Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, and David Strathairn before him.
** The CIA running yet ''another'' thinly-veiled black-ops program under another name, this time "Iron Hand".
** Jason ''still'' learning the origin of his assassin life; this time, he learns his father helped created Treadstone.
** The requisite heavy-traffic car chase and code-named elite assassin on Jason's trail.
** A sequel hook that reveals Bourne is ''still'' not free of the CIA's wishes to terminate him.
