Taking care of your supporting cast: makes all the difference in the world!

Rating: 7/10 (24 October 2002)

That's all I want to say: a slightly above average quality action movie becomes something you can enjoy when there has been an effort to breathe life into the supporting characters.
That has definitely been done here, and I go along with Michael O'Keefe's comment pointing out Chris Cooper and Gabriel Mann as contributing a lot to the whole thing.
Great actor directing, Mr. Liman, and unlike someone else, I think Franka Potente adds something to the specific feeling of the movie. (and think in BLOW, she was excellent). Damon is surprisingly sober and efficient, no complaints! Outstanding dialogs (be they Ludlum pure or reinvented). The rythm is special. The multiple countries visited almost get us into that traveling-agency-add feeling (terrible flaw in so many movies), but, fortunately, we mainly stick to Paris, which is a good thing. It would be a shame if we hadn't been given the Mini-chase, really nice work, just to say the action doesn't come short here (most reviewers here before me seemed to agree on that).
In the genre, a great job with a little extra, what more can we ask for ?