
In some ways, the film revisits the greatest hits of the original trilogy, but it also boasts a few moments that hold their own alongside anything from the earlier movies. Now, with Jason Bourne, Greengrass has reunited with Damon and the title character after nine years away, in an attempt to update both Bourne himself and the series’ politics for the waning years of the Obama era.

And yet in the midst of the action, Greengrass offered intriguing dissections of American foreign policy in the George W.

He and editor Christopher Rouse often cut between shots so rapidly that the films functioned less as straightforward narratives and more as sensory overloads. His take on the series wedded his flair for immediacy to the big action sequences and car chases we expect from the spy genre.

He took over the Matt Damon-led series with the second film, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, then reached new heights with 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, which won three technical Oscars. But he’s also a franchise filmmaker, thanks to the action movie brutalism of the Jason Bourne films.
