His old friend, Julia Stiles' Nicky Parsons, the former CIA analyst, meanwhile, has joined a hacking collective who want to expose the service's black ops programs. We meet a down-on-his-luck Bourne who has shut himself away from the world and is scraping a living by winning bareknuckle fights in Greece. With The Bourne Legacy proving to be a critical and commercial flop, Universal persuaded Damon and Greengrass to return and in 2016 Jason Bourne returned for a new chapter. Renner does his best in Damon's stead, but this movie is flat, uninspired and not nearly as compelling as the original trilogy. Marta Shearing, one of the doctors from Outcome, and the two partner up in an attempt to keep themselves alive. When Bourne's actions expose the program he's part, Cross is forced to run for his life when the CIA gives the order for all of the agents and participating doctors from Operation Outcome to be killed.Īs Cross runs, he comes across Rachel Weisz's Dr. Renner plays Aaron Cross, who, much like Bourne, was another young recruit prepared to do anything for his country, who signs up for a black ops program called Operation Outcome whose subjects are genetically enhanced. Universal executives should have shown some patience, waiting for Greengrass and Damon to build up their appetite and return to the character, but instead they ploughed on and cast Jeremy Renner as the face of a new Bourne spin-off. And, when Greengrass declined the option of a fourth movie, Damon was out too. A movie that should never have been made and which turned out to be an utter horrorshow.Īfter the triumphant ending of the original Bourne trilogy with The Bourne Ultimatum (more on that movie later), Matt Damon made it clear in interviews and to studio executives that he would not do another Bourne film without director Paul Greengrass.

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