Published Sep 15, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
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Matt Damon is having a good year with the success of The Odyssey. Though Christopher Nolan and Damon have collaborated on several projects, this was the first time the latter played a leading man, and it was all worth it. Upon its release, it became the second-highest-grossing feature this year, earning $1 billion at the worldwide box office, standing next only to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Earlier this year, Damon with friend and fellow filmmaker Ben Affleck, delivered another hit, The Rip, a small single-location thriller that broke out on Netflix, garnering millions of views worldwide. Damon is loved in every genre, be it something dramatic like Oppenheimer and Good Will Hunting, or comedies like Kevin Smith’s ***Dogma ***and Steven Soderbergh’s satire The Informant! However, Damon has numerous great action movies in his filmography.
Among them is the iconic ***Bourne ***franchise, which made Damon a household name around the world as fans waited year after year to see another mystery unfold and connect to Jason Bourne’s (Damon) past. The franchise is universally loved for its big action set pieces, thrilling plots, and Damon’s cutting-edge performance. Under Doug Liman’s direction, Bourne Identity kicks off the story of Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin who suffers from amnesia and is on the run from his former employers. Across the course of four films, which also benefited from collaborating with directors like Paul Greengrass and Tony Gilroy, Bourne gradually uncovers the truth about his past and exposes the illegal black ops programs that created him.
A fifth movie in the franchise, Jason Bourne, was released in 2016 as a direct sequel to The Bourne Ultimatum. Overall, the Bourne franchise has garnered over $1 billion at the worldwide box office and enjoys good Rotten Tomatoes scores from fans and critics, with *The Bourne Ultimatum *rated highest at 92% by critics and a close 91% by the audience. And the love for the franchise seems to be growing with the passing years.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
The Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum, ***and Bourne Identity ***– all are ruling the charts of Starz. The movies stand tall at #6, #7, and #10, respectively, on a chart including this year’s hit biographical drama Michael, Will Smith’s Focus, Jason Statham’s Shelter, Sydney Sweeney’s The Housemaid, and more.
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Tony Gilroy, William Blake Herron, Robert Ludlum
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