The Bourne Identity (2002)
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 119m
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
Synopsis:
A man found floating in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back is stricken with amnesia, but a Swiss bank account number he bears makes it clear that he is an agent with multiple identities and embarrassing enough even his own side wants him out of the way.
Review:
Entertaining, breathless, MacLean-like thriller which has the sense to jettison bombast and hyperbole in favour of highly trained men trying to kill each other in relentlessly grey and depressing settings. A hark back to the cold war dynamics of the sixties but without the nihilism; indeed the explanation for the loss of memory when it comes is a bit of a sop, even if it is telegraphed earlier on. Somehow one expects assassins to be made of sterner stuff than to be disarmed by a wide-eyed moppet, but still it's a great ride and Damon comes off rather well more or less reprising the role of Ripley from the form in which Malkovich took it over.
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 119m
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
Synopsis:
A man found floating in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back is stricken with amnesia, but a Swiss bank account number he bears makes it clear that he is an agent with multiple identities and embarrassing enough even his own side wants him out of the way.
Review:
Entertaining, breathless, MacLean-like thriller which has the sense to jettison bombast and hyperbole in favour of highly trained men trying to kill each other in relentlessly grey and depressing settings. A hark back to the cold war dynamics of the sixties but without the nihilism; indeed the explanation for the loss of memory when it comes is a bit of a sop, even if it is telegraphed earlier on. Somehow one expects assassins to be made of sterner stuff than to be disarmed by a wide-eyed moppet, but still it's a great ride and Damon comes off rather well more or less reprising the role of Ripley from the form in which Malkovich took it over.
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 119m
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles
Synopsis:
A man found floating in the Mediterranean with two bullets in his back is stricken with amnesia, but a Swiss bank account number he bears makes it clear that he is an agent with multiple identities and embarrassing enough even his own side wants him out of the way.
Review:
Entertaining, breathless, MacLean-like thriller which has the sense to jettison bombast and hyperbole in favour of highly trained men trying to kill each other in relentlessly grey and depressing settings. A hark back to the cold war dynamics of the sixties but without the nihilism; indeed the explanation for the loss of memory when it comes is a bit of a sop, even if it is telegraphed earlier on. Somehow one expects assassins to be made of sterner stuff than to be disarmed by a wide-eyed moppet, but still it's a great ride and Damon comes off rather well more or less reprising the role of Ripley from the form in which Malkovich took it over.