James Bond vs Jason Bourne: Who is the Spy Movie Champ?
Recent years have been very good to those of us who like our cinema with a healthy dose of espionage. For decades, the spy genre was owned byJames Bondwith intermittent appearances from George Smiley and the occasional standalone. Then in 1996,Tom Cruisegave us the cinematic gift that is Ethan Hunt, another impossibly handsome, impossibly able superspy with a grinning panache all his own. A few years later,The Bourne Identitycame along, triggering a seismic shift in the popular action movie aesthetic and introducing us to Jason Bourne, a character that would become a genre juggernaut....