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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 4717
Released: July 13, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Description of The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition):
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
The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) Reviews:
The Boure Identity. Ok Movie. 
2009-10-23 - It's an Okay movie with Matt Damon!(Team America LOL) I have not read the book(I don't read novels), So I don't know if it's true to the book or not.Movie is a bit far-fetched,kinda of bond-ish. Matt Damon is boring, Some good Action Though. Matt Damon!
Who knew? 
2009-07-14 - Who knew Matt Damon could make such an awesome Jason Bourne. The first in the series is action packed and looks amazing in HD.
DVD didn't work in any dvd players 
2009-06-21 - Very dissatisfied. I was very disappointed that this dvd didn't work in any dvd players or on my lap top. I was so looking forward to watching this movie and was very upset it didn't work.
Loads of Fun 
2009-06-16 - This is an action thriller that is great from start to finish.
A man is rescued at sea. He has no memory of who he is or anything about him. He ends up being in some very tight spots and demonstrates that he has a wide variety of impressive fighting skills.
In his quest to figure out who he is, he connects with a young German woman, Marie (Franka Potente) who assists him throughout much of the show. As it goes along, he (Matt Damon) discovers that his name, or one of them, is Jason Bourne. It turns out that he is a CIA assassin. While he has amnesia, his employers think that he has gone rogue and are attempting to kill him.
All of this makes for a story with lots of action. The events take place all across Europe. It is really a very entertaining film that is a good one for any fan of action flicks.
Not as good as I thought it would be
2009-06-08 - I finally watched this movie on DVD and frankly, I don't see what all the hype and fuss was about when this movie was in theaters.
The movie,basically, is about Jason Bourne, apparently a government assassin, trying to find out his true identity. There were several things in the movie that I think left it disjointed and rather confusing. Throughout the movie a government program known is Treadstone is referenced. It's hinted that Bourne is part of this program, but even in the end it's never truly explained what this program is, or how Bourne is a part of it. Julia Stiles role in this movie also is never explained at all. She's just in it heading up some sort of listening post in Paris. I also did not like how this movie was filmed. The camera movements are simply annoying at times and I don't think add to the movie at all.
It's rather obvious, in my opinion, this movie was planned as a trilogy from the beginning and I don't like movies that "set me up" in order to make me come back to watch a second movie to find out things that should have been explained in the first one and in my opinion, that's just what this movie is doing.
I also did not think this movie was all that suspenseful or really was a very good thriller. If the filmmakers had taken care to fill in some details so I didn't have questions throughout the movie I might have been able to get into it more.
Perhaps I'll like the trilogy once I watch the other two movies, but as a stand alone movie The Bourne Identity just didn't impress me very much.
