Good movie, but hardly 'The Bourne Identity'

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2004)

I enjoyed the movie for what it is: an action movie that happens to have the same title as a robert Ludlum book, and for which names of certain characters of the book were reused in the movie. That is about the extent of any link between the book and the movie.
Overall, as someone who has read the Bourne trilogy years ago, and liked it, I expected something closer to the TV film made in the 90s. It actually corresponded to the book in a reasonable way. This movie, although it uses the title 'The Bourne Identity' tells a whole different story, with characters that are so substantially different, that it really doesn't have much to do with Ludlum's creation, other than some basic ideas.
If you want to see a rather nice action movie (or have not read the book), you'll probably like this movie. If you read the book, and expect to see something that follows the basic storyline, you might want to skip the movie.