7 Ways Jeremy Renner’s Aaron Cross Is Better Than Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne

While the original Bourne trilogy included the strongest movies in the Jason Bourne franchise, The Bourne Legacy’s Aaron Cross was arguably a better action protagonist than his predecessor. The Bourne movies started out bleak, and they only grew darker as the original trilogy continued. In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne was an amnesic super-spy who woke up with no recollection of his past and a shadowy group of assassins out to kill him. As the trilogy progressed, Bourne discovered he was part of an elite group of hit men trained by the CIA in a secret program called Operation Blackbriar.