Bond's been re-Bourne !

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2006)

Difficult to know were to start - so will simply say this is one of the top 10 movies of the last decade. The Bourne movies have taken an exciting new road - we now have James Bond without the clichéd gorgeous girls, ridiculous gadgets and tiresome one liners. Now, steady, despite what I've said I really like Bond, you know what your going to get and they're flashy, fun flics - never miss them. But if those movies ever grew up you'd hope they'd turn out like The Bourne Identity. Bourne is tougher, more real, the action sequences are brilliant and tough as nails. There plot is solid, information is drip fed at the right rate and you can never say for sure how things will turn out - which is absolutely essential and separates the simply good movies from the great. There are a small number of well developed characters and again, it's nice to see that you can do what's been done with Bourne without a couple of huge Hollywood names battering the movies path to financial success. Oh, and the soundtrack is fantastic. Opening scene is class too.