Deep down, Samuel L. Jackson doesn’t care what credit card you use. No fast-food cheeseburger has ever looked in real life the way it does on TV. So why do we keep putting so much faith in commercials?

Christopher Lawrence
“It’s an amazing and ridiculous way to make movies,” admitted Thunder Levin, who’s written each installment of the franchise. “But then again, we’re making a ridiculous movie, so it all seems to work out.”
You don’t buy a ticket for a Jason Bourne movie for its social commentary. You do it for the chases and the carnage. And on those counts, “Jason Bourne” delivers.
After playing the killing machine known as Jason Bourne in 2002’s “The Bourne Identity,” 2004’s “The Bourne Supremacy” and 2007’s “The Bourne Ultimatum,” actor Matt Damon walked away from the role. Or so he thought.
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