

It follows much of the same beats as the 2002 film, with Jason Bourne (played by Richard Chamberlain) awakening and not remembering who he is while displaying skills most normal people don't know. When a fight becomes more personal, it’s less about the technical aspects and. If you want to see absolutely everything Bourne-related, then you need to check out this made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC in two parts in 1988. Matt Damon’s fight trainer explains how he made Bourne’s brawls so gritty. Treadstone is on Amazon Video in the UK, as well as coming to channel 5Action. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins. It can also be watched as a standalone, or after the film series, which is what we recommend. Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Note: You could watch Treadstone first, before the films, in your re-watch, but the jump to the present day in the first season might confuse or not mean as much to you. From there, the show dives into the present day, with Treadstone assets going about their normal lives until they are suddenly activated and become world-class assassins like Bourne. It’s part-prequel and part-sequel to the Bourne film series, with some of the story set in 1973, when we see CIA operative John Randolph Bentley (played by Jeremy Irvine) escape from a Soviet behavior modification program known as Cicada in East Berlin. The first and only season of Treadstone aired on the USA Network. Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Nintendo Switch.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Xbox Console.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Google Nest.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Amazon Echo Devices.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Fire TV Stick.It's just not as memorable as Bourne's best. Matt Damon was definitely in phenomenal shape for 2016s Jason Bourne, especially for someone over 45.

Still, "Jason Bourne" is a solid action blockbuster put together by experts in the field. And there's a subplot about government surveillance, because apparently it's also the law these days that all blockbusters have a subplot about government surveillance (" Spectre", "Furious 7", "Captain America" again). It's shot in London and Berlin, because apparently it's the law these days that all blockbusters have to film in London and Berlin ("Thor 2", "London has Fallen", "Fast and Furious 6", " The Hunger Games", " Captain America: Civil War" etc). So "Jason Bourne"'s big chase is directly lifted from "A Good Day to Die Hard" (AKA "The Worst Die Hard").

Not only does it cannibalise its own past, the new film also echoes other action movies that reinvented themselves after the innovative feel of "The Bourne Identity" in 2002. Ultimately it's hard to shake the nagging feeling this latest Bourne movie is a victim of its own success. You would not believe how much of this there is.
