call it anything else and it's a good movie

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2005)

Firstly, credit where credit is due...It's a good movie. Having said that, I hate it when they take a literary character and ride on his coat tails of success. If you are going to call a movie by the same name as a novel then don't stray from the overall plot or kill off characters who are supposed to live or save characters who are supposed to die. I understand and accept that books don't always translate well into movies. That's okay just don't go changing the whole story either. This movie begins right (same as the book) but the thing that I really hate is that it takes characters who are sympathetic in the book and turns them into irrational evil doers. There is no good reason to change them that way. Give the audience a little credit for intelligence and add a scene explaining why they are really chasing Bourne. While I'm at it, Bourne Supremacy takes my complaint to even greater lengths.