The 'Dad Thriller' era ended as it began: with an epoch-defining action movie and a Jack Ryan movie. The Bourne Identity, released in 2002, was not not a Dad Thriller, but it also heralded a re-emergence of The Highly Trained Bad-Ass Tier One Operator, a hero perfectly calibrated for the post-9/11 cultural and military obsession with Special Operations Forces. Just as Die Hard had opened the door for the Dad Thriller, Bourne opened it for an 00s generation of movies about guys with "very special skills" who did parkour and close combat.
— Max Read (Read Max)
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?