The Bourne films

During lockdown, we watched the first three Bourne films (all good), the fourth one (not awful, but doesn’t actually feature Bourne), and the last one, which sort of summarises all that has gone before and serves it up as a giant souffle.
   We liked these films because they have more of a gritty reality than the Bond films. When you watch them one after the other, you see they are very similarly plotted: the bad CIA guys or whoever are packed into a room full of computers and spying equipment, saying, ‘My God, it’s Bourne!’ To which the newcomers say, ‘We’ll take him down,’ and the old timers say, ‘You just don’t know who you’re dealing with here.’
   All good stuff. I expect you’ve seen one or more of these films. They’re all worth watching, although I spotted one horrible plot hole in the not-Bourne fourth one.
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