Stars: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles and David Strathairn
Where We Left Off: The ticking time bomb that is Jason Bourne is set to detonate again when agent Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) is conducting an operation to find a rogue CIA agent, but something goes wrong, and her investigation leads her to him. Although Bourne has been trying to put his life as a CIA man behind him and remember his past, by film’s end, Bourne has gotten his man and discovered his real name and identity, David Webb.
The Skinny: The government won’t leave Bourne alone as he races to discover the final mysteries of his past in this latest film. While a government agent tries to track him down after a shootout in Moscow, Bourne must travel from Paris, Madrid and London to Tangier and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne – all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents who have him in their crosshairs.
Total Gross: $297.8 million – $121.6 million (The Bourne Identity); $176.2 million (The Bourne Supremacy)
Black Quotient: Blank
Prediction: Potentially white hot. Damon, who stars in two big franchise summer movies (along with Oceans series), is perfectly cast as the former killing machine that just wants to be left alone. This is the third and final book in the series by Robert Ludlum, although two additional books, “The Bourne Legacy” and “The Bourne Betrayal,” feature the same character written by another author. If this film performs as well as the previous two, look for the other books to also be made into films, and the franchise will continue. My prediction is that Bourne equals sure money, $200 million. (August 3)
This feature also appeared on BET.com.
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