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The Honest Trailer for the Bourne Trilogy Explains Why All These Movies Feel So Eerily Similar

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Ever wonder why it’s so hard to tell whether you’re watching The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, or Ultimatum? Screen Junkies knows the answer—they’re all the same movie. Their Honest Trailer for the trilogy breaks down the exact formula for a successful Bourne film: Bourne struggles with his identity, takes part in a cool car chase, and runs from a control room full of people on computers, only to learn that the government agent chasing him was a puppet for someone else the whole time. (Too bad the new Jason Bourne didn’t get the memo.)

The trailer also points out that the movies “couldn’t be more different from the long, boring books on sale at the airport,” thanks in part to the performance of that guy from Good Will Hunting, shaky-cam filming, and a whole bunch of turtlenecks.