Not the Bourne Identity

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2002)

Absolutely do not waste your time or money seeing this movie! I assume that everyone who gave this movie a good rating has never read the book. This movie has very little in common with the masterpiece written by Robert Ludlum. Hollywood has changed everything from the book. I couldn't believe it when they introduced Marie as a "gypsy" rather than a Economist w/ a Ph.D. Where is Carlos, the world's greatest terrorist who provides the main story line in the book? They wrote him completely out of the book! Instead of Carlos' henchmen trying to kill Bourne, the movie has CIA operatives trying to kill him. They even changed the spelling of Cain to Kane, why? I stood up and literally booed when the credits rolled. I should have left 10 minutes into the movie, but I guess I just wanted to see how bad they could screw it up. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst you can screw up a adaptation of a book into a movie, the Bourne Identity gets a 10. Puke - I'm vomiting now just thinking about it.