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Summary: I'd give it 4.5
Review: Wish you could give a half a star! It was a great action movie, that I could actually watch again and again.I wasnt crazy over the love story part of the movie, but it was bearable! LOL
Buy this one, it deserves a spot in your library of dvd's!
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Summary: Well Made
Review: Well made, well acted. Matt Damon is a perfect fit for this movie. The fight scenes are well done and immediatly convince you that this real. Considering the manifol CIA movies on the market today, this is one of the best.
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Summary: Bourne Identity
Review: This movie is brillant.this movie is an action movie.Matt Damon is a brillant actor.
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Summary: Pretty much underated
Review: This movie does not get too many great reviews from the press, but it is a very good movie.For the spy story and such, well its good and entertaining, so I would give it a three for that. But I would give it a five for the other storyline. Its a movie that, well. maybe I should not say, but it is an intriuging back story. Well ok, I will tell, but if you do not want to know and would rather watch the movie first, by all means I recomend it and dont read past this line. Its a movie about a guy whose memory gets erased somehow and when he finds out who he is, he doesn't like it, so he trys to become a different person. Pretty intruiging, at least for me. Think about it, if you did not know who you were, then found out, would you like yourself?
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Summary: New Title: The Boring Identity
Review: This movie should've been called "The Boring Identity" because it is boring. This movie presents itself as an awesome action movie, but it is not. The action sequences are not at all spectacular, the story is so complicated and sometimes doesn't make any sense. If you want to see a movie around the same genre, go see "XXX", and wait until this movie gets on HBO. By the way, the girl is ugly. The DVD is very disappointing with a making-of that doesn't even show how they made the movie, but shows only actors talking about how great the movie and the director are. There is a alternate ending so stupid, it is gonna make you run to the store to get you cash back. This is very boring, I suggest that we prey to God so that Hollywood doesn't make a sequel.
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Summary: Authentic Action and Acting
Review: You feel like you're right there with Jason Bourne (or is that his real name?) in this action-punctuated spy-type adventure. The stunts are great, and the car chase in the old, beat-up Mini is incredible. There is actual character development here, and the relationship between the two main characters is real. Chris Cooper's acting is poor, however, as is the target of a failed assassination attempt. Keeping the film from Bourne's point of view, without flipping back to the agency trying to hunt him down, would have made it much more enthralling. Even so, well done.
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Summary: Ultra-stylish and severely hip espionage thriller!
Review: Have you ever seen a movie that was so astoundingly cool, so effortless, so neatly, wonderfully hip, that you wondered why other movie studios didn't somehow find a way to copy its ingredients and bottle it up, releasing it every time they needed a blockbuster? "The Bourne Identity" is that kind of movie. Director Doug Liman has taken all of the hyperkinetic and insanely cool techniques he used in the stylish "Go", and translated it over to the espionage genre, playing with the story of Robert Ludlum's best-selling "The Bourne Identity" to create a lightning-paced, sleek, intelligent and absorbing little spy-hunt that manages to out-Bond Bond himself and parallels (and nearly surpasses)Sydney Pollack's white-knuckled thriller "Three Days of the Condor." In many ways, the story in "Bourne" is very close to "Condor": a confused protagonist and his reluctant companion find themselves pursued by a relentless, mysterious and deadly foe. When we first meet up with the movie's nameless protagonist (played masterfully by Matt Damon, who is becoming one of those actor who can charm the camera merely by sleeping---which, in fact, he does in this film)he is clad in a wetsuit, drifing unconscious in the ocean. He is picked up by a Portuguese fishing trawler and discovers he was 60 miles off the coast of Marseilles in the Mediterranean, but how he came there is a mystery. Indeed, everything is a mystery to our hero, for he has amnesia: he can't even remember his own name. He does remember a lot of other things, though: he discovers he can speak German, French, Italian, and Portuguese fluently; he can disarm and subdue two policemen in seconds; he knows how to drive a Mini Cooper *very* offensively; and he's a natural at staking out the opposition. Oh, and he has a laserlight pointer embedded in his hip, with the address of a Zurich bank and a numbered Swiss bank account. A trip to Zurich raises more questions than answers though, as Damon finds a bank-box with a slew of fake passports (one of which has the name "Jason Bourne", his picture, and his 'residence' in Paris), a bundle of money in different denominations, and a gun. Worse still, he has now raised the attention of the police, and is now pursued by them and a series of well-trained and motivated killers who want Bourne dead. To say anything more would spoil the fun of "Bourne", but it is rousingly well paced and intelligently directed. In a sense, "Bourne" is more Bondian than the Bond films, which are slick productions but often try too hard. "Bourne" also boasts excellent acting all around: Damon is great as a man literally searching for his identity while struggling for his very survival, Brian Cox racks up his third great character performance in a year (including his role as General Stryker in "X-Men 2" and his performance in "The Ring"), and Chris Cooper is excellent as a CIA spook. And then there is Franka Potente, one of the most beautiful women in film today, who was the white hot core of the eclectic "Run Lola Run." Potente, who plays a gypsy who helps Bourne, works perfectly with Damon, and the two have great chemistry together. Potente can say more with a quirk of her mouth and a single look than most actresses can with 5 pages of script. The movie has everything you would want from a spy film: good villains, thrilling fight sequences, and a ripping chase through the streets of Paris in a vintage, beat up Mini Cooper. But best of all is Liman's ability to create a very real sense of menace and danger that is ratcheted up with every passing minute. Liman is very good at crafting this mounting atmosphere of peril, and shares much in common with Ridley Scott, who has always been gifted in creating dangerous places. Spymaster John Le Carre once wrote a book called "The Perfect Spy"; in praise of Doug Liman, "The Bourne Identity" is The Perfect Spy Movie.
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Summary: Forgot the mystery
Review: The brillance of the book, to me, is the mystery of who, or better yet, what is this man. The original miniseries caught part of that, but poor casting hurt the story. This DVD changes the beginning to speed onto the special effects, sacrificing the main character's slowly piecing together who he is and who he would have been if not a paid killer. His "new life" changes the whole atmosphere. [see "The Long Kiss Goodnight" for comparison] The DVD is excellent and the action is super, but 5 stars means all "it could be". I bought it and am pleased I did. As a past movie critic, I rated "entertainment and critic" separately as the fun and the art should never be confused.
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Summary: Bourne to be Wild!
Review: Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, a 30 million Dollar weopon that went bad. He now is being chased by his employers after an assasination went bad, and something else happened also, he has lost his memory.
Jason Bourne has to duck and dodge police men, while trying to find out his past. This movie is filled with great acting and a great storyline. Before seeing this movie I suggest reading the book. That way you will have a little bit of a background before watching the movie. The DVD has great special features are great, I bought this movie last week and I'm still watching the deleted scenes and the behind the scenes feturette is marvellous. When they say this is a Collectors edition they MEAN IT! If you like action movies then the bourne Idenity is for you! Colin Nickell
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Summary: Simply Great Action Thriller!
Review: In what can only be described as one of the best thrillers to come out of the fantasy factory in recent memory, rising star Matt Damon shows why his career is bound for glory in terms of both incredible versatility and sheer star power. In this loosely adapted version of best-selling mystery author Robert Ludlum, Damon plays the lead part of Jason Bourne, and man who awakes from shock aboard a Portuguese fishing boat with two gaping bullet holes in his back and a terrific case of amnesia. As he lands with some evidence of some puzzling leads in port, he follows the lead and slips into a nightmare world where everyone is chasing him and he has no idea of what is going on. Along the way he enlists the support of an existentially challenged twenty-something woman in search of her life, and the two of them fend their perilous way through the maze of inexplicable violence and mind-boggling subtexts. Thus, discovering through a passport that his name is Jason Bourne, an American living in a sumptuous upstairs flat in Paris, Bourne and the soon to be main squeeze are assaulted by an assassin. And in the midst of all this pounding, he discovers more and more about his assailants, his own mysterious combat capabilities, and finally himself. The cinematography is excellent, and adds to the lure of the film, as does the young main squeeze, a relatively unknown actress (Franka Potente) whose only other screen credit is for "Run Lola Run". One suspects we will be seeing more of her soon. The sets are realistic, and some of the chase scenes are extremely well choreographed, filmed and spliced together in some of the most exciting and memorable heart-pounders in recent memory. The sporting cast is excellent and quite believable, the plot is a bit sticky but plausible, and as sheer entertainment it is a great afternoon's entertainment. I expect we will soon see a sequel or two, as the Bourne character is certainly an appealing and exciting film figure. Until then, enjoy this one!
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