![]() ![]() The character’s fundamental decency is a thread that runs throughout the story, especially in his tenderness toward his accidental female companion, Marie. ![]() We see him help and befriend the fishermen who save him, and beyond that, Matt Damon lends him a real sense of confusion and vulnerability. The first thing we (the audience and Bourne) learn about him is that he’s basically a decent human being. We know nothing about him and he knows nothing about himself. When we first meet Jason Bourne, he’s floating in the water. Identity presents Bourne as a human being first, a spy second But the franchise’s three subsequent movies, all of them directed by Greengrass, lost much of what made Bourne distinctive, rendering him a more dolorous, "gritty" version of Bond himself. I try to explain this unpopular opinion below, but if I had to sum up: The Jason Bourne of Identity was the anti-James Bond, a refreshing and compelling new take on the super-spy. The series never got better than Identity. Related Jason Bourne review: Matt Damon is back in a greatest hits cover album of the other 3 films ![]()
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