Julia Stiles is also back for her fourth outing as disaffected CIA agent Nicky Parsons. Jason Bourne reveals more details about the character’s mysterious past, with his CIA analyst father Richard Webb portrayed by character actor Gregg Henry, who as Hollis Doyle on TV’s White House drama Scandal is no stranger to covert operations. Lyndon Johnson pithily described as “Murder Inc.” He’s probably repressing all of the god-awful things he was deployed to do for the CIA as a lethal errand boy for what Pres. There’s only one fly in this ominous assassin’s ointment: Bourne (né David Webb) has a conscience, which may explain his amnesia. Sort of “Hawaii Five-O” on steroids, unbound by trivialities such as, oh, you know, civil liberties, ethics and a little bauble called the U.S. But now, Damon is back as the troubled amnesiac groomed to be a member of a highly trained cadre of killer elite doing the CIA’s deadly, nefarious bidding around the world. In 2012’s Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner (star of 2008’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker) played Aaron Cross. It’s the fourth movie starring Matt Damon as the title character and the series’ third feature helmed by British director Paul Greengrass, starting with 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy. The latest sequel continues the Bourne formula of nonstop action combined with criticism of the CIA. intelligence agencies turned to what author Jane Mayer called The Dark Side. Ludlum’s original Bourne trilogy began in 1980 but didn’t reach the big screen until shortly after 9/11, when the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. Jason Bourne is the fifth installment in the Bourne film franchise derived from Robert Ludlum’s espionage novels that began with 2002’s The Bourne Identity.
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