The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
|
List Price: Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $4.89 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
Movie Review: Poor video transfer spoils an otherwise worthy library addition
Summary: 3 Stars
The video transfer of this film is too dark, but an adjustment to your TV brightness setting will yield an acceptable viewing. The extras are quite informative especially the part dealing with Ludlum's knowledge of the intelligence community.Movie Review: Based on what?!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie is awful. Boring. Plotless and the only thing that relates to the entire book is the title The Bourne Identity. The books that the movie is based on are three of the most cherished books in my library. 1st they do a really poor job of introducing the characters. It was not till the third installation that I finally learned the name of several of the characters.
Let me just list off who is not in the movie (these are MAJOR characters in the book too!):
Alexander Conklin - Jason Bourne's creator & friend.
Moe Panov - Jason Bourne's doctor & friend.
Carlos - Jason Bourne's nemesis, his equal.
These three characters are NOT just paramount in the story line - they ARE the story line.
I am certain that the screenwriters, directors and everyone else on board with this movie never read the books and only wanted to make a quick buck.
A sad excuse for a good book. An absolute chaotic nightmare!
Movie Review: everything I could ask for
Summary: 5 Stars
The story, in brief, is a man is rescued by a fishing boat, with amnesia and bullet holes. In his quest to discover his identity, people try to kill him, and he reacts with professional swiftness. He teams up with a young woman, and together they elude the killers while searching for answers and falling in love.
This was obviously written with me in mind. I mean, come on--it's got almost every one of my favorite things: a spy story, action/adventure, amnesia, a romance--heck, the romantic interest is even German. What baffles me is that I'd never read Ludlum's book even though it came out at a time when I was reading a lot of spy novels. I've ordered it.
At any rate, I can't say yet how the movie compares to the book, but the movie is excellent. Matt Damon plays a man who doesn't realize he's a professional assassin perfectly--the combination of good-intentioned searching for his identity with the growing realization that he's not just some nice guy who works in an office is very convincing.
Franka Potente, too, is very realistic as an adventurous young woman who ends up in over her head, but is reluctant to leave because of her growing feelings for him.
The action is nonstop and exciting, and the mystery of who he is and why people are trying to kill him is compelling.
This is one of those rare movies I can watch over and over again. One of my favorites.
Movie Review: Korina
Summary: 5 Stars
As far as sequels go, this is top notch just as good as the first one. Great action and suspense.Movie Review: Bourne, Jason Bourne....
Summary: 5 Stars
2002's "The Bourne Identity" is an absolutely thrilling (if loose) adaption of Robert Ludlum's 1980 spy novel. Its cinematic success has launched two equally thrilling sequels to date, featuring Matt Damon as former CIA assassin Jason Bourne.
A young man in a wet suit, with two bullet holes in his back, is rescued by the crew of a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The young man recovers aboard the vessel, but has no memory of who he is or how he came to be in the water. His only clue is the number of a Swiss bank account implanted in a metal tube in his hip.
The man travels to Zurich and reaches the bank. His account number provides him access to a safety deposit box, filled with a variety of foreign currencies, a small pile of passports, and a handgun. The top passport is an American one, in the name of Jason Bourne, with an address in Paris. The young man goes to the American Embassy in Zurich, where the staff unexpectedly tries to apprehend him and the young man unexpectedly displays astonishing fighting skills in escaping the Embassy.
Outside the Embassy, Bourne bribes a rootless young German female named Marie (played with subtle depth by Franka Potente) to drive him to Paris. Along the way, the two will bond over the mystery of Bourne's identity. The mystery will deepen in Paris as Bourne realized he is the target of a murderous agency effort to clean up a mistake and as he realizes that keeping Marie alive is now a personal misssion.
"The Bourne Identity" features fast-moving, almost breathless action, lots of spy high-tech and technique, and enough convoluted mystery for at least three movies (and counting). Matt Damon nicely underplays Bourne as a confused but driven man, aware that the clock is ticking in a game he doesn't fully understand. The movie narrative proceeds on parallel tracks, as Bourne flees across France, while his nominal CIA boss (played with understated urgency by Chris Cooper) and another CIA chieftain (played with sweaty near-panic by Brian Cox) throw both CIA operatives and law enforcement in his path. Clive Owen has a nice cameo as another CIA assassin; Julia Stiles is introduced in her recurring role as a Paris operative. The climax of the movie is Bourne's dramatic entrance into a CIA safe house in Paris, there to learn the truth about his identity.
"The Bourne Identity" is very highly recommended as the thrilling introduction to the Bourne series. The Extended Edition features a new beginning and ending to the movie designed to the events of 9/11, which somewhat pre-empted the Cold War context of the movie. This DVD version also features some nice extras on the making of the movie.