The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
A man is washed up on the shores of the mediterranean seabarely alive suffering from multiple gun shot wounds. His amnesia has left with virtually no clues to his past or his identity. Little by little he tries to put his life back together while trying to avoid people who are trying to kill him Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: Matt Damon Brian Cox Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Doug Liman
Freely adapted from Robert Ludlum's 1980 bestseller, The Bourne Identity starts fast and never slows down. The twisting plot revs up in Zurich, where amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), with no memory of his name, profession, or recent activities, recruits a penniless German traveler (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) to assist in solving the puzzle of his missing identity. While his CIA superior (Chris Cooper) dispatches assassins to kill Bourne and thus cover up his failed mission, Bourne exercises his lethal training to leave a trail of bodies from Switzerland to Paris. Director Doug Liman (Go) infuses Ludlum's intricate plotting with a maverick's eye for character detail, matching breathtaking action with the humorous, thrill-seeking chemistry of Damon and Potente. Previously made as a 1988 TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain, The Bourne Identity benefits from the sharp talent of rising stars, offering intelligent, crowd-pleasing excitement from start to finish. --Jeff Shannon
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The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) Reviews
While on the contrary, Marie probably is more the active force trying to set up a home for them.He's definitely the one who still feels on the run because he still is under constant restraint. In the movie, he is given the diagnosis of selective dissociative amnesia.What they did is, they had him forget who he was but they allowed him to continue to remember all the training and the things that he learned over time. Jason and Marie's love is a not a classic love.It's definitely a relation of two people who walk next to each other, interact and cross only several times but not all the time.Jason is definitely taken by her, by her forcefulness and her vigor as she's very much alive where he isn't, where he feels lacking any strong emotion.
Based on his unconscious clash of feelings and what he was doing, and being a killer he would've made strenuous efforts to create a new identity if he didn't have a penchant for love.And it was his development and his journey into finding the power to feel that was a big part of this movie. He's instructed to go and kill somebody. Marie's character is very helpful to Bourne's character. Damon's character, Jason, has been trained in self-defense, weapons handling, high-speed driving, disguise, and secret writing communications. He knows that he's very attentive, and very observant.I really enjoyed the scene in the diner when Jason is telling Marie he doesn't know who he is but he knows that he can name the license plates of all six cars outside, and the clothing that people were wearing.
When you see the sequel or the two parts together, it makes sense because evidently Jason is still haunted. Jason Bourne based on the symptoms presenting, is having a conflict unconsciously. He still has nightmares from things he'd endured. At that point he was still struggling to try to get his memory back.
All that goes overboard is Bourne as he gets shot up and falls off a boat, floats in the sea to be rescued by Italian fishermen, and then goes on a balls-out - kicken mission to find out who in the world he is. Nobody's better than Paul Greengrass (director of the sequels) at doin the realer than real life thing, but Bourne Identity is the first and has the most engrossing story to tell. The Bourne movies are all a step up in action/spy thriller film making. This 'action thriller' adventure hero -or make that anti-hero.- has a conscience. Hard to say. They go over board with the shaky cam.
Seriously they knocked it out of the park with the Bourne films. But here's the kicker -he feels bad about it. Don't know which is 'the best' one. And 'Shaky cam' is cool, but in much smaller doses than are invariably used. He actually thinks that it's wrong to kill people as a tool of the government. These Bourne movies rock my world. They showed how to do it well and do it intelligently.
Interesting. The Bourne movies are so bad they got James Bond to change almost everything about himself except his name. And James Bond probably didn't change his name because he at least has the same initials as Jason Bourne. You very quickly understand this dude is like the ultimate bad -. On the way, goes all over cinematic Europe, picks up a pretty German girl, outwits everybody and their mother, and puts on the ground all that get in his way including other elite assassin agents from his own unit. You know THE BOURNE IDENTITY and subsequent sequels are so bad. But not here.
It's pale. No thoughts. Some chase, "Mini" rocks, yaaawn. (In Russian translation they called it "microfilm". And, by the way, those attempts to put Slavic languages in the movies are boring too.
No feelings. That wasn't a brand new idea - of making a movie about super-spy lost his memories. Even no humour. Well, may be that happens to often. So Matt Damon couldn't save the movie - he had nothing to do, to play, but a couple of tricks. Ugh). Or may be even flat. What a shame.
Boring and predictable. Poor guys. So the coolest thing in the whole story is that advanced "laser pointer". You know, a super-mega-hyper-absolute-spy risks a lot, if he tries to use a passport with a senseless bunch of cyrillic letters instead of name.
Matt Damon rocks in these movies he is amazing the action is suspenseful and real. I wish there were more coming.
The DVD has a great transfer and the extended edition is nothing more than a small scene added to the beginning and end of the film. Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne like a robotic killing machine. Fast paced, engrossing with an intelligent script, this film leaves you wanting more.and more ye shall get with installments 2 and 3. I have not read the book, but reviewing this as a movie on it's own, it's quite good and much better than the usual action fare. Fortunately the theatrical release is intact.
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