--- title: Matt Damon: Watch Actor's Bourne Movie Recap VIDEO description: Here's your 90-second explainer of everything that's happened on the whole 'Bourne' series, as narrated by Matt Damon himself. canonical: https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-25T21:35:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:46.781Z og:title: Let Matt Damon Bring You Up to Speed on Everything 'Bourne' og:description: Here's your 90-second update on the whole Bourne series, as told by Damon og:url: https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Let Matt Damon Bring You Up to Speed on Everything 'Bourne' twitter:description: Here's your 90-second update on the whole Bourne series, as told by Damon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let Matt Damon Tell You Everything You Need to Know Before Watching _Bourne_ in 90 Seconds  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 25, 2016 9:35 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 25, 2016 9:35 PM UTC A lot has happened in the four fast-paced movies that [make up the _Bourne_ franchise](http://time.com/4323253/matt-damon-jason-bourne-featurette/?iid=sr-link1). There have been innumerable chases in foreign locations, layers of political and personal intrigue, and lots of brutal fight scenes with blood-thirsty assassins. It’s enough that even a fan of the action films might be a little confused with the plot twists. Luckily, we now have the ultimate Bourne explainer: [Matt Damon himself](http://time.com/4410678/matt-damon-jason-bourne-ben-affleck/?iid=sr-link2) taking 90 seconds to run through all the major plot points of the first three movies he starred in, bringing us right up to speed and ready to watch the latest installment in the series, out on July 29. “I go from London to Madrid to meet a CIA informant, but he’s already hauled a\*\* to Tangier and is blown up. I choke the assassin in another epic close-quarters fistfight, then go to New York to blow the lid off Blackbriar,” Damon deadpans. Did we mention these movies are fast-paced? If your _Bourne_ memories are a little rusty, you might want to listen to Damon’s narration a few times through — the actor, like Jason Bourne himself, doesn’t drag the thing out. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/"},"headline":"Let Matt Damon Tell You Everything You Need to Know Before Watching Bourne in 90 Seconds","datePublished":"2016-07-25T21:35:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:46.781Z","description":"Matt Damon thinks his fistfights are pretty epic, too","url":"https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","movies","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/","name":"Let Matt Damon Tell You Everything You Need to Know Before Watching Bourne in 90 Seconds"}}]}] ```