However, with four films packed with double-crosses, memory wipes, and shady government conspiracies, it can be hard to keep track of everything that led up to this week’s fifth installment of the franchise.
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Universal Pictures has released a video – titled Bourne in 90 seconds – featuring Damon himself recapping the relevant events of the previous four films.
And in this supercut from the franchise – which gears up for the arrival of its latest action-packed outing, Jason Bourne – the stealth mercenary pulls no punches.
Meanwhile, CIA Director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones) and his protege Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander) clash on how to handle Bourne’s resurfacing – he wants Bourne dead, she thinks he can be re-recruited.
There have been 10 years of uncertainty for Bourne fans since the spy escaped from Moscow in The Bourne Ultimatum, with Damon not involved in series’ most-recent instalment The Bourne Legacy, but as the secret agent emerges from the shadows to continue his quest to find his true identity, he stumbles into a world high in tension and lacking in stability.
While Damon will eventually get back in the saddle, he’s looking forward to giving his body a break after having endured grueling workouts to prepare for his fourth go-around as Bourne.
Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) then contacts him and shares to him what she knows about the said Central Intelligence Agency program.
Damon is in peak physical form for the gruelling action sequences and he tears at his character’s heart as the past returns to haunt him once more.
Frequent Greengrass collaborator, cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, gets his first shot at a Bourne film, with the editor of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, Christopher Rouse, now co-writing alongside the director.
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Jason Bourne pummels into theaters Friday.
