For those about to rage about reboots, the Matt Damon films started with the second adaptation of Identity, just fourteen years after the first.
PCs with amnesia is one of the classic one-shot RPG setups, and the Damon series built up a world of agency brainwashing and the need to break out to become a better person. This factored somewhat into Vampire for me, as scary outsiders with secrets will.
The fast, brutal style of the action did a lot to update spy movies and spread into action overall, before shakycam became too choppy in other hands.
Damon did a lot to ground it, with Bourne taking smart shortcuts as well as scared fight-or-flight reactions, and I remember my sympathetic reaction to his panic, not yet thirty myself and thinking “he’s just a kid...” as so many people sent into war are.
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