Fun Action Movie

Rating: 7/10 (24 October 2016)

The Bourne Identity follows Jason Bourne as he loses his memory and tries to discover who he is, but ultimately learns that he possesses a set of skills abnormal to regular people. Meanwhile, his employers begin to search for him.
The Bourne trilogy has become known as an exceptional action series, but is it really? Not really. Matt Damon, to start, is good as Jason Bourne. In this movie, at least, he's just good. His performance isn't anything special, it doesn't stand out or anything, it's just good. The rest of the performances are the same, just good.
As for the action scenes, they're kind of average actually. Throughout the entire movie the fight scenes include a lot of the use of the shaky cam technique. Shaky cam is usually used to cover up how bad a movie's action choreography is and still make the movie intense. The only real problem is that the choreography is good, but it's just poorly presented. That's not to say that the action isn't entertaining, it's just cheated for no real reason.
Overall, despite the negativity, I had run with this movie. There isn't much to say about it, but it's pretty good. Is it amazing? No. but it's fun enough. In the end I would still recommend this movie.