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Summary: Cliche to the maximum.
Review: Everyone keeps talking about how cliche this movie is, but then they add in "the fact that Damon plays a spy with amnesia on the run is the most original thing about this movie" and how wrong could they be? I guess no one seems to remember a movie starring Gena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson called 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' where Davis plays a spy with amnesia, and she eventually teams up with Jackson, with whom she barely knows, and they are on the run from Davis's former employee. Despite good (but done-before) action sequences the movie just falls short. Matt Damon played a better role than expected (it was kind of hard to accept him as an action star) but still, the movie is completely and tiredly unoriginal. For action fans who don't mind seeing the same old thing over again, I will suggest it. But for those of you looking for something new, I would skip this and wait until it came out on video. It's just not that great.
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Summary: Superb Spy Movie, and an answer to Matrix
Review: One of the best spy movies I've seen to date. Matt Damon and director Doug Liman carry this movies great screenplay to a great film. What makes the movie work is the high intensity---but steady--action sequences. The adrenaline is their but its not so high as detract from the story--there is no high so there isnt a low. Thats what makes the film work, a strong steady pace of intriguing story, great camera work, and Matt Damon. I would definitly recommend The Bourne Identity, especially if your getting sick of Matrix sequences.
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Summary: Fantastic Movie
Review: I won 2 tickets for 4 persons to see the premiere of this movie, all of us like it. The action, effects and sounds are very good. I recommend you to see it, you will like it. Thanks to Univision/Channel 41 and to the Universal Studios for the opportunity they gave me.
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Summary: Same story with NEW twist
Review: Matt Damon plays the assassin whose government employer is trying to apprehend him. Same worn out story line with a new twist this time the assassin has amnesia. Matt plays an action character well. I was entertianed and not bored. My review is 3 stars because it lacks the orignality that makes a movie great. It possess a number of very interesting scenes and is worth a view.
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Summary: SEQUELS WOULD ROCK! DAMON and POTENTE are HOT!
Review: The Bourne Identity has great direction (from a man who I beleive can do no wrong - SWINGERS and GO) and great acting by Matt Damon and the oh so beautiful LOLA, I mean Franka Potente. I must admit walking in I was a bit concerned about Damon playing a super spy action hero but leaving I totally bought it and thought that Damon kicked AISE, know what I mean! Not only did I like Damon and Potente's performances but I enjoyed the supporting players as well. It's always nice to see Chris Cooper play the antagonist, and Brian Cox (the first HANNIBAL) is cool as always, as is soon to be known Gabrielle Mann in a small role, but what is with Julia Stiles? She didn't need to be there. She doesn't do anything important! However, THE BOURNE IDENTITY reallly rocks and it is also very smart. How often do you get a smart action picture? Not often. Well, I did find that the SUM OF ALL FEARS to be a smart and very entertaining action film and what do you know it starred Ben Affleck. Hey guys, keep up the good work. Hollywood need you! Do I recommend "The Bourne Identity"? HELL YEAH! My girlfriend even loved it more than I did. She said that Matt Damon went from cute to HOT after seeing this picture! Whatever you do, don't see the boring CHANGING LANES, instead of this. I mean what was that? A thriller, a drama? I don't think anyone knows. (P.S.)Matt, Doug if you're out there please make the other two books into films. They would be great! SEQUELS, we need SEQUELS! Why not, Hollywood loves 'em! (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 2? come on? that we don't need!)
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Summary: Very Cool Film
Review: Damon is great in this rouge Manchurian Candidate style smash! The chase scene is dynamite. The beautiful German actress Franka Potente is riveting. If you like her work, you must see "Run Lola Run", a must see low budget Germen film. All in all I loved this film, and you will too.
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Summary: A Serious Miss.
Review: Any similarity between the book and this movie is purely accidental. In adapting the book to the screen the scriptwriters have stipped away all of the pacing and logic of the book, as well as a good deal of its intricacy. The characters become hollow and one dimensional. The only redeeming feature is that the actors do what they can with a lousy script.
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Summary: "I have this condition"... redux with explosions
Review: "The Bourne Identity" is one of those movies that starts, plays out, and ends all so self-containedly that once you walk out of the theatre, the world of the film evaporates. Everything is so compact and perfectly contained that it leaves the viewer with no lasting impressions or even a real memory of it. There are no deep psychological or philosophical issues at work in the script, and none of the action is really impressive enough to warrant discussion later. Just think of this as Matt Damon's bid to be placed on the ever-increasing list of 'actors starring in forgettable spy flicks' alongside Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith. "The Bourne Identity" is just more insulting in its mediocrity because of its origins - the book that this movie is ostensibly based on is actually quite interesting. Sadly, when considered wholly, this movie is so much less than a sum of its parts. The acting is very good, the script isn't completely dumb (if not exactly brimming with witty dialogue), and the camerawork and the locations are gorgeous. Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, if looking a bit too much of a callow kid to be a hard-edged CIA assassin, is convincing and engaging as a man who has too many locked secrets in his head and has lost his key. Franka Potente, most famous for her athletic role in "Run, Lola, Run" is a nice change from the stereotypical token love interest in movies such as these. Not pretty in a conventional sense and trying hard to be the 'feisty partner' that other movies have dictated that she be, but not quite succeeding, Potente actually makes an impact with her anomalous appearance. The big disappointments come with Julia Stiles and Clive Owen, both billed on the poster, and both receiving little more than cameo appearances. Stiles spends her four scenes attached to a computer keyboard, and Owen has only about five lines and some moaning to do. A sad waste of fine actors, even if their bits are well performed. The real downfall of "Bourne" lies in its plot, though. It's not so much the gross story line, which we've seen over and over again with different actors righting different villainous plots, but the smaller details that just bring a sense of unreality to the proceedings. A man with two bullet holes in his back lowering himself by his arms down a building? Julia Stiles as the head of a Parisian safe-house? Excuse me while I go put logic out of its misery forever. It's not so much the fact that we are told to check our brains at the door, but that all the proceedings are done with a seriousness that makes one think that a brain might actually be needed. Forget about "The Bourne Identity".
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Summary: This movie is awesome!
Review: Watching this movie perfect entertainment; I wouldn't change a thing. My wife thought it was pretty good (which I'm glad about since I talked her out of Scooby on opening night). Go see it, you'll like it.
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Summary: One great movie!
Review: Although it did not receive much in the way of hype in this area, this was one great movie. Lots of action, no nudity, very little bad language and a plausible plot. I liked it!
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