The Bourne Identity, 2002

Matt Damon did look a bit vague at the beginning of this movie, quite fit in with the image of an amnesia person, who got shot, floated in the sea, and got fished out of the water. Recovered, the first thing he did, was to leave that French coast, head straight to a Swiss bank (following the info implanted on his hip), with the hope to find out who he really was.

Imagined his surprise, when he found lots of money, a gun, and several passports, each with a different name. So what was his real name, and who was he really?

Headed to a US Consulate, he found out that the US governent itself seemed to want him for some unknown reasons. Tried to survive, he managed to convince a young lady, Marie (German actress Franka Potente from the movie "Run Lola run"), to give him a ride to Paris, for 20 thousand bucks (US dollars?).

Convinced himself temporarily that he was a Jason Bourne, who had something to do with the US government, he became alerted to all the dangers around him. Unfortunately, his fellow traveller did not agree with him in this theory. Thus began a series of arguments between the two. Whenever this attractive lady took a break from playing the role of an argumentative Marie, she sounded great. One could almost fell for her charm, until she began to be unable to understand or tune-in to the dangerous atmosphere around her and Jason Bourne.

Back to his appartment in Paris, he almost got killed by an expert assassine. Puzzled at the fact that the assassine rather chose death than to reveal the serect of whom his boss really was, Jason Bourne by now, was very sure that someone wanted him dead than alive. (But he still couldn't convince the charming Marie!).

A series of tangles began to unravel (or to become more tangled?), always sandwiched very well with all the thrills and suspense, plus non stop actions: car chasing, running from soldiers/police, direct combat (one to one fighting with very authentic martial art!), bombs/cars exploded, etc.

Regardless of a very difficult - to - understand plot (why the CIA wanted to invest 3 millions into a member, only to kill him off at the end of the project; Jason Bourne was used as a bait to flush out a very dangerous and most wanted terrorrist, etc), the movie was real lively and terrific.



To many, this movie though was shorter and more exciting than the movie done in 1988, (with Richard Chamberlain and the beautiful Jaclyn Smith), it did lose the real reason why Jason Bourne was used in this Treadstone project in the first place: to flush out the most wanted assassine at the time, Carlos, as the book from Ludlum was about.


Except for some sceneries taken from France and Germany, the rest of this movie was done in a studio in Czech.

(wrote this movie for a friend, about a month ago!)