When we catch up with Webb, we find him well off the grid, earning a living via brutal street fighting. Jettisoning Robert Ludlum–style titles, the fifth film is called simply Jason Bourne, as if to reassure us that, unlike the last installment - The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner - Matt Damon is definitely in this film. The world has changed since 2007, and not only in the ways the filmmakers are self-consciously trying to engage: concerns about cybersecurity, online privacy, government spying and the pressure on tech companies to give the government whatever information or access it wants.

I don’t know which Christian writer was the first to use the phrase “Bourne again,” but I bet it was early on.

The newness of his persona heightened the baptismal dimension of the immersion imagery that ran through the films. Who was the real David Webb, the man who fell into the Mediterranean or the man who was fished out? Webb didn’t seem to have the temperament of an assassin perhaps he lost more than just memories in the trauma that left him floating in the Mediterranean with a pair of bullets in his back.

Among other things, this included tracking down and apologizing to a surviving family member of two of his earliest victims and exposing the illegal actions of his former bosses. Over the three films that followed, Bourne - or David Webb, as he eventually learned was his real name - continued to try to figure out what “the right thing” meant for an amnesiac former CIA black-ops assassin. But of course he wasn’t just anyone, because very dangerous people were trying hard to kill him, and it turned out that he was very good at staying alive. It was impossible not to empathize with Bourne’s plight he could be anyone.

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