Jason Bourne

The Bourne Series first appeared in 2002, with the first movie The Bourne Identity. Two more movies followed, The Bourne Supremacy in 2004, and The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007. All of the movies were based off of books that were written from 1980 to 1990. The author of the books was Robert Ludlum. The movies however are said to have been based very different from the books. The Bourne Identity was directed by Doug Linman, while The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum were directed by Paul Greengrass. Each director added his own personal touch to the movie. The series is based around a man named Jason Bourne, who is played by Matt Damon. We see his character change over the course of the movies. In the first movie he fights all these people that Treadstone and the CIA send, and by the last movie he gets to the point where he doesn’t want to fight at all. But he changes with help from the good and bad supporting characters. Whatever that supporting character did somehow affected Jason, if the character’s decision was to send more men after Jason or to let him run for a little bit, Jason had to end up dealing with that in some way. The series overall was very successful because of the action, characters, and the directors styles.

“He was the perfect weapon until he became the target “(Liman). In the opening weekend The Bourne Identity took in just over twenty-seven million in the United States. It was praised among critics, most giving it three out of five stars. The movie starts out with a man floating in the Mediterranean Sea and is picked up by a fishing boat. The man, who is the main character throughout the series is Jason Bourne, is alive but doesn’t remember anything, or who he even is. When he goes to a safe deposit box in a Swiss bank, he finds that he left a gun and several passports with different names on them. He still can’t remember who he really is so he spends the rest of the movie finding out who he really is and what he did, and trying to avoid...