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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 28, 2016 7:39 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 28, 2016 7:39 PM UTC As a lead-up to Friday’s release of [_Jason Bourne_](http://time.com/4424040/jason-bourne-movie-review/)— the fifth installment in the _Bourne_ series — the team over at [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A) is back with an [honest trailer](http://time.com/4403380/ghostbusters-2-honest-trailer/) that tackles the original [Matt Damon-led trilogy](http://time.com/4422713/let-matt-damon-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-before-watching-bourne-in-90-seconds/). The latest video from the YouTube channel spoofs the spy franchise’s first three movies, _Identity_, _Supremacy_ and _Ultimatum_, noting that they basically all follow the same formula: “Bourne tries to figure out who he is, has a cool car chase and runs from a control room full of people on computers only to discover the crooked government guy chasing him was just a puppet for someone else,” the narrator says. “Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Watch the full trailer below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4429183/matt-damon-jason-bourne-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4429183/matt-damon-jason-bourne-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"The Honest Trailer for the Bourne Trilogy Shows All Three Movies Are the Same","datePublished":"2016-07-28T19:39:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:54.045Z","description":"\"If it ain't broke, don't fix it\"","url":"https://time.com/4429183/matt-damon-jason-bourne-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","honest trailers","screen junkies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4429183/matt-damon-jason-bourne-honest-trailer/","name":"The Honest Trailer for the Bourne Trilogy Shows All Three Movies Are the Same"}}]}] ```