The Bourne Identity

Starring: Damon, Matt and Cox, Brian

Product Description

Academy Award winner Matt Damon stars in this explosive, action-packed hit filled with incredible fight sequences. Found with two bullets in his back, Jason Bourne discovers he has the skills of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 025192545726
• Release Date: January 2006
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Studio Distribution Servi
• Director: Liman, Doug
• Starring: Damon, Matt, Cox, Brian
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

The only things preserved from the book are a few names.

As far as a shoot-'em-up with the obligatory car chase goes, this movie did it quite well. And like many of the other "1984" (book by George Orwell, in which to satisfy the proletariat, they had a machine mass-produce formula pulp fiction) type machines churned out films for the proletariat, the title and a few names bear the only resemblance to the Ludlum story. Quite a few of the characters that give this story depth and mystery are left out of the movie completely. Fortunately, or unfortunately, it is easy to get wrapped up in technology as we assume that high definition (HD) or even 3D is going to take the place of the missing character Carlos and the in-depth search for his real identity. Now, let's not compare this quickie in shoot-up land with the well-thought-out book "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum or the much better portrait of the story portrayed in the Mini-Series "The Bourne Identity" (1988) starring Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith; then we can enjoy what is left. A sailor on a fishing trawler spots a human body in the water. After retrieving it, we find it is alive. Helping this stranger back from the near-dead, we find a couple of bullet holes and a mysterious capsule under his skin. The capsule displays what the fisherman recognizes immediately as a Swiss bank account. The man can not remember who he is. Now we follow along with his journey to Switzerland and find out if he will recover. In the meantime, someone is out to kill him. Why?