The Bourne Identity (Full Screen Collector's Edition)

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Summary: the bourne double feature
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THE BOURNE DOUBLE FEATURE


The Bourne Identity is a non-stop, action, suspense, thrill ride.
In my opinion it is an excellent movie. (****) The director, Doug Liman , did an excellent job on this movie.
The fighting and chase scenes were done so perfect. The fighting style that Matt Damon used reminded me of THE MATRIX, perfectly smooth and fast.
My favorite fighting scene was when Bourne goes to his home in Paris and the other Black OP assassin swings and smashes through the glass window attacking him. Awesome hand-to-hand combat. When the assassin finds out he can't win by hand-to-hand he whips out a small arrow head blade, trying to get the upper hand. When Bourne sees this, he evens the odds, with a mere ball point pen and stabs the assassin quite a few times with his fighting technique. The assassin ends up losing and commits suicide.
My favorite chase scene was the Paris Pursuit. (In the scene index) He tells Marie (Franka Potenta) that this is her last chance to go on her own, but she decides to stay and buckles up for the ride of her life.
So, on this rainy day in Paris Bourne is driving a Mini Cooper, which in fact made this car famous, and out runs the Paris Police by dodging and doing 360s around other vehicle.
The only way this scene worked was the fact that the streets were totally wet. They were so perfectly wet that it made this scene one of the best scenes in the movie.
Overall, I recommend this movie to anyone who appreciates action movies like me.
The BOURNE SUPREMACY was also a great film. (***.5)
In my opinion it was not as good as the first one because it had a different director (Paul Greengrass) and only one great scene.
I think the director did a bad job on filming the chase and fighting scenes. It was like watching SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, where the camera was bouncing rapidly. And didn't capture the action very well.
It was still a great film because, Bourne actually remembers and learns everything he had lost when he first got amnesia. Also, finishes the story.
The best scene was the Death Chase, when he`s running from the Russian Police in a taxi cab he had stolen. Smashing into every vehicle, out running the Police and at the same time the assassin, who killed the love of his life, is chasing him too.
When Bourne saw him he leads him down an underground tunnel with a lot of traffic. While smashing each other into the cement walls, Bourne then does a 360, grinding into the assassin's SUV. Bourne takes out his hand gun and blows out the front driver-side tire, causing the SUV to pull right in front of Bourne sideways. Bourne then puts the petal-to-the-metal and rams the SUV into a cement pillar.
Now both vehicles are completely totaled. Bourne gets out of the cab limping towards the SUV, pointing his gun at the assassin and sees his pursuer lying on the steering wheel covered in his own blood. It looks to me like he was still alive and breathing. All Bourne does is just walk away.
If I was Bourne I would have put a bullet in his head and called it a day. But it could have been a perfect story for another movie, making these films into THE BOURNE TRILOGY.
Overall, I recommend seeing both of these films back-to-back to understand the entire story.


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Summary: Intelligent and very pleasing
Review: This movie is intense. I can see why it and its sequel raked it up in the box office. I remember walking out of the theater knowing quite well this was going to be a movie I would purchase. No regrets paying the full price at the theater either.

The fight scenes are a breath of fresh air, especially after seeing so many "Matrix" copies in other movies. I wouldn't be surprised if movie studios move more towards these straight forward fight sequences and away from the wire-fu. The movie, "Kiss of the Dragon" with Jet Li, came out prior to this and the fight scenes are similar. This makes the action even more tense because you see the characters more humanized.

The storyline is a gripper. You have just enough information to know Jason Bourne is and has been a part of something. Something big enough that people are desperately hounding him. Plus, there are no lame dialogue quickies. It's one of the more intelligently written action/thriller/drama scripts in my opinion.

The movie does move at a pretty fast pace and by the end you are wanting more. Thankfully, "The Bourne Supremacy" is now out. Although, not as good, it still is topnotch for a sequel.

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Summary: Better than the book
Review: Writer Robert Ludlum created the Jason Bourne character and wrote three novels in this series: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", and "The Bourne Ultimatum."

Jason Bourne is a killer with feelings. As portrayed by Matt Damon, is a film character better than James Bond. This first installment will keep you at the edge of your seat.

The producers and scriptwtriters decided to update the plot (it was written at least 30 years ago) bringing it up to our time. They succeeded.

It is a great idea: Jason Bourne does not know who he is, has lost part of his memory and struggles to reconstruct his past. During the process he falls in love with Franka Potente and things get really complicated.

All in all, is an excellent action movie. One star for the R rating, which shows sensitivity on the part of the producers and respect for their audience. 4 stars for acting, cinematography, direction and script.

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Summary: The Bourne Identity
Review: This is a fine film, but the new version of the DVD -- the "extended" version -- is not really an extended version at all. Rather there are two deleted scenes -- a deleted beginning and a deleted ending. The DVD has a jury-rigged way of playing them in sequence with the movie (though not without interruptions). But, like many deleted scene features and unlike genuinely "extended" versions of films, the deleted scenes are rough, low resolution and unfinished. So if you get this thinking you're buying the "Bourne" equivalent of the special extended Lord of the Rings DVDs, think again. You're just getting some deleted scenes with a different way of accessing them. This, IMHO, is highly misleading packaging.