While series star Matt Damon may not have cared for The Bourne Ultimatum’s script upon the sequel’s release, time has been kind to the spy thriller. Geopolitical thrillers tend to age poorly. The rapid pace of world events means that movies that had their finger on the pulse of current events upon their release can become cringe-worthy and outdated within a few years, while themes that may have once felt perennially relevant and timeless can end up dating a movie horribly when its plot proves less prescient than expected. 3s595e

The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum have an overlap in their respective timeframes, but it is one that is easily explained. 2002's The Bourne Identity introduces Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a man afflicted with amnesia who gradually comes to discover that he is a deadly assassin. Based on Robert Ludlum's eponymous 1980 novel, The Bourne Identity's success led to Damon returning as Bourne in numerous sequels, beginning with The Bourne Supremacy in 2004.

Jason Bourne's fighting skills in the Bourne movies are vast, with Bourne wielding a number of different martial arts in his fight scenes. The Matt Damon cinematic universe branched out in 2002 with Damon becoming an action hero in The Bourne Identity, based upon the 1980 novel by Robert Ludlum, and the movie becoming one of the biggest hits of the year. The Bourne series would go on to great box office success with its subsequent installments, with its fifth installment Jason Bourne arriving in 2016.

Here's how The Return Of Xander Cage mocked the Jason Bourne movies during the opening scene. Xander Cage was always designed to be a franchise, with the original movie being built around Vin Diesel's extreme sports lover turned reluctant spy Xander Cage. Diesel ed on State Of The Union after disliking the direction it took the series, and a new hero named Darius Stone (Ice Cube) was brought on instead. That entry was a box-office bomb in 2005, and over a decade later Diesel came back to the series for The Return Of Xander Cage.

The Bourne movie franchise totally deserves its own video-game series, and though there’s one that already exists for the first movie, fans would love more. What makes the movies so great, such as the stealth, espionage, and use of logic, has not yet been fully explored in game form.

Jason Bourne continues to stand tall as one of the best action movie anti-heroes in all of cinema. The character is based upon Robert Ludlum's original novels, which were later adapted into four feature films beginning with 2002's The Bourne Identity. Matt Damon starred as the titular character - a man suffering from amnesia who gradually uncovers the truth about his past as an assassin working under a secretive program known as Treadstone.

Although the cinematic super-spies are usually box office rivals, amnesiac CIA operative Jason Bourne saved the James Bond franchise from embarrassing failure in the mid-2000s. He may be ready to retire from the part after the No Time To Die is released (and possibly make way for Tom Hardy), but as hard as it is to believe there was a time when Layer Cake star Daniel Craig's James Bond looked likely to fail. When the actor took over the role of James Bond way back in 2006, critics and fans alike were understandably skeptical about the prospect of the famous British super-spy’s movie franchise provoking more thrills than unintentional laughter in a post-9/11 cinematic landscape.

Many big franchise movies take place in New York City, including Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, and Men In Black. New York has even become synonymous with these movies, so if a franchise wants an exciting scenery change, what better place to bring them than the greatest city in the world.

Movie sequels can be hit and miss. For a film to have warranted a sequel in the first place, it must have been successful with audiences, making it a tough act to follow. Also, the derivative nature of sequels makes it difficult for them to capture the creative essence of their original counterparts. Some rise to the occasion and others don't.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe's 'Phase Two' movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a big hit for the franchise and became somewhat of a landmark within the interconnected series of movies as well as the superhero genre overall.