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Summary: The best action film of 2002.
Review: Exceptional film. Finally, a director who is able to illustrate Damon's talent. Amazing shots, continuous action, and no misplaced love story to water down the plot. This film contains the most exciting action sequence I have seen in years. Shame it wasn't released at a time when there wasn't 30 spy films out. Highly, highly recommend.
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Summary: The Kackmaster speaks
Review: This is by far the best movie Damon has ever been in. Like other reviewers have said, one never knows how the movie will end, it is suspensful, and has several subplots. Anyone who does not like this movie can....nevermind.
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Summary: "Bourne" Tops "Minority"
Review: I saw "Bourne" within weeks of seeing "Minority Report". How can the two compare?Maybe I've seen too many movies, but I saw the ending of "Minority" coming 30 minutes into the film. When it unfolded exactly like I thought... kind of a let-down. While "Bourne" didn't have any huge twists, I didn't care. I wanted to see how this man with no history would survive his past and move on -- assuming he survived. Plus, this is a movie you can talk about without having to compliment the special effects -- which, unfortunately, are half the comments I hear about "Minority". While I think both "Bourne" and "Minority" are fun movies, I'd pick "Bourne" over "Minority" every time.
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Summary: Book vs Movie vs Movie
Review: The book is a great story. Bourne is an amazingly capable guy, who doesn't know it, due to amnesia, probably related to the bullets. The book has rich character development, suspense, plot, and non-stop-action. It's one of those books you will not be able to put down, and you may skip a meal or two to finish it in one sitting, so find a cumfy chair. Two subsequent books: The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum are both good, but not as good as the first. Ludlum books have a style that I enjoy, but I've decided that it's as if they're written to formula, so more than one Ludlum book a year makes them less enjoyable. One Ludlum book a year is very nice to read. The 1988 tv-miniseries version of this movie with Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith was OK, but I thought that Bourne lacked the skills portrayed in the book, although he did have some of the brains. The 2002 movie with Matt Damon is just the opposite with Bourne having all of the skills (here's a guy you do not want to meet in a dark alley, or even a crouded policeman's shooting range), but none of the brains. In 2002 the female sidekick shows that no smarts at all is enough to stay alive, whereas in the book anyone without 100% amazing training gets wiped out very fast -- and the need for both honed skill and brains is what gives you the respect for the book Bourne. I'll buy the 2002 movie for the hand to hand combat scenes, like the one in the embasy. I hope they're as good as I remember from the movie theatre.
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Summary: The Bourne Identity
Review: As soon as I saw this movie in the theatres, I went out and bought the book immediately. I recommend both items. This movie will look great on any movie buff's list.
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Summary: Book vs. The Movie
Review: I love action films that actually have a riviting plot and good acting. This film fulfilled all of my wishes. I loved it so much that I went and saw it again. I later read the book, which was incredibly different than the movie. Personally, I liked the book a lot more. It is pretty big but so riviting that it will go so quickly. I just bought the rest of the Bourne Trilogy. I hope that they make the next two books into movies. Get this movie, and the book. The book is not a substitute for the film, and the movie does not take the place of the book. They are both so good!
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Summary: If its on Tv, its ok to watch
Review: Matt Damon, attempting to extricate (sp?) himself from the shadows of Ben Affleck's towering height and talentless public mugging, hits a mediocre note with this utterly predictable catch-as-catch-can movie. Given the carbon-copy, unimaginative [stuff] spewed out daily by the likes of Tom Clancy and John Grisham, the fact that this book is more than twenty years old should speak volumes on how trite and contrived it is. A clear pointer towards the disaster imminent in this movie is the cameo by squinty-eyed "actress" Julia Stiles, who has made a career on jumping aboard anything thats been done about twenty times and is therefore free of critical harm, in one way or another. The sole saving grace that makes this watchable if you've got nothing else to do on a saturday afternoon? Damon himself. His desperate energy and hunger for a hit make him compelling, even if he is just Good Will Hunting who can't remember his Boston accent. ultimately, the entirely european setting make for some interesting cold-war esque falshbacks as well, but by the end you wouldn't be surprised if Sean Connery showed up going, "Hey Matt, cool it. Your name is Bond--the new Bond." It might have made the movie better.
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Summary: Surprisingly Good
Review: Lots of people compare this movie with Minority Report. Both are full of action, have big stars,....are now both on DVD. Anyway, while I did enjoy Minority Report...lots...it's good, trust me, for my money I pick Bourne Identity as the better of the two. You go into Minority Report with all kinds of baggage that Tom Cruise and Speilberg bring to any movie they make. Bourne Identity makes no pretentions about the uber-movie it's going to be. It's simply a fun movie to watch, with cool action scenes and a hot chick. Try it out
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Summary: Great Title
Review: I loved the movie because you couldn't predict how it was going to end. I especially loved his love interest. No she did not look like one of the "Bond Girls". She looked like a girl an average guy in the real world would fall in love with. A great ending to a suspenseful movie.
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Summary: Kept me wide awake
Review: Watched this on a long haul flight from Kenya.It kept me awake and I was exhausted! A very good fast moving movie - not as good as Minority Report but excellent.
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