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Summary: Read the book? Be forwarned - This is NOT the book!
Review: They should have changed the name when they changed the story, but they didn't.
However, this is a GREAT movie. It came out about a week after the quirky spielberg and tom cruise movie "Minority Report", It soon matched "minority" boxoffice sales, then far out-grossed it's per theater showing as people talked it up and up. If you missed this top shelf movie, you missed great first unit direction, a great story, and startiling acting. Now you can own it.
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Summary: Bourne Identity Gets My Vote
Review: This is what a action movie should be. Not just all action pay attention XXX, Ballistic & Ecks IT SHOULD HAVE A GOOD PLOT ALSO. Matt Damon does a fine job playing Bourne. It had good characters as well as a great plot.
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Summary: This is an ok CIA type movie.
Review: Matt Damon is a good actor but not convincingly good in this movie. The fight action sequences are ok due to speedy camera movement which could have been realistic if Matt did his own fight sequences with normal camera movement. Matt's character does not have the magnetic power to take his audiences with him to unfold the mystery behind his amnesiac past. Better CIA scripted movies are those in which stars Harrison Ford.
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Summary: Fans of the book, The Bourne Identity, don't bother
Review: If you are a fan of the book, This is not it.
While a few, very few, plot points have been kept character names and title is all that is left from the excellent book. Not even one of the main plot points, not to mention character, has been kept. This is a first rate example of artistic license run amok. While it is a good movie it needs to have it's name changed to "The Re-Bourne Identity". All they did was use the Title of a best selling book to sell a movie. I give it 1 stars as an action movie. No stars are awarded for screen adaptation of the book. If this was not a blatant attempt to sell a movie based on title recognition it would have more stars. Hollywood needs to have more respect for the public not to mention the author. Artistic license must have it's limits.
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Summary: All right, I guess
Review: I read the book before I saw the movie. The book was AMAZING![.] If you haven't read it you should. Read the other Bourne books,too, there great. The movie was a disapointment to me because of how much they changed from the book. The made Marie German!? I couldn't believe it!! She is Canadian, and a smart one at that. And how did they get to be in love all of a sudden? In the book Jason needs Marie. She keeps him sane. And he saves her life. That is really not so in the movie. And what happened to Carlos the Jackel? He wasn't even metioned in the movie, probably because it was set in the present instead of the 80's. But that was all the book was about! There are so many things different about this book and the movie that this review would be like a term paper if I decided to name them all.
So, if you read the book, don't expect much. If you haven't, you will probably be entertained for the 2 hours the movie lasts.
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Summary: The Ending is Wrong
Review: I enjoyed the movie until the ending. I saw some departures from the book throughout, but figured it would still be the same as the book, but then whammo - it ended in such a way as to change the actual story 180 degrees from what it should have been! Why? The book had a great twist to it. Why take this out, and put a predictable ending on it? Even people who have never read the book are making comments on how the ending seems tacked on to the movie. Why even base a movie on a book if you are going to depart from it so much? Why not just write your own original story and be creative? What is Hollywood thinking? - that we can't handle good, twisty plots in movies? I give it a 3 because it was good until the ending, and if you never read the book you will really enjoy it. But I do recommend reading the book if you like good spy thrillers with great twists. Cliff - ...
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Summary: Not a carbon copy
Review: I am tired of listening to people who claim that this was a horrible movie because it was "nothing like the book." If you have actually watched the commentary, you will know that this was intended to be some of the basic plot and character elements of the book brought into a modern setting. Based solely on strong acting (Damon, Potente) and considering all that Liman brought to the film from his indie background, this is an excellent piece of film and should be on everyone's list.
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Summary: A great movie !!!!!
Review: This was an awesome movie!. I have very high expectations for spy type movies and this one goes above and beyond. I've never read the book but the movie was spectacular. I saw it the theatre so I haven't bought yet, but i can't wait to watch it again. THIS MOVIE IS TRULY WORTH THE MONEY!!!!
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Summary: Avoid at all costs
Review: I enjoyed the book but the movie is horrible. I would give it zero stars if I could. I hope that I am never in a room alone with those responsible for this movie because just thinking about what they did to the excellent novel makes me upset. In fact the 'based on the novel by Robert Ludlum' credit is false advertisement because it takes only the basic premise, main character, and first minute from the book.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: THERE'S ONLY 1 WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS MOVIE AND THAT IS
"EXCELLENT"!
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