Not too long ago, we had three long running spy movie franchises. There was Bond, Bourne, and Mission Impossible. Bond and Mission Impossible were based on previously established IPs (with Mission it was based on the sixties TV show,) but Bourne was a completely original work, adapted from a Robert Ludlum book and series. Ans Bourne was the movie that really set the tone for the others, with Bond movies featuring Pierce Brosnan going out the window and Daniel Craig replacing him in a film that was much darker and more serious. It was known that Craig’s first Bond movie (and best,) Casino Royale, took inspiration from Bourne to deliver gritty hand-help fights and go easy on the light heartedness and campy tone that had categorized all previous Bond incarnations.
For about two decades (roughly the year 2000 through 2020,) we were given about two of these movies a year. Mission started in 1996, but it was time before the other franchises joined in the game. Bourne started in 2001. Casino Royale was in 2005. And we even got The Kingsman series at one point, a sott of comedic take on the genre. That movie, unlike the others, really used computer effects hard, and delivered on them, using them to enhance the action.
Bond, Bourne, and MI
Also worth mentioning, Kingsman and John Wick