Does right what "The Saint" did wrong (spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2003)

I like Matt Damon and I like the older James Bond-movies = I liked "The Bourne Identity". The director understood that in suspense thrillers less is more and didn't go for no "Triple X"-bulls**t, but instead, set some nice little action scenes, like the escape from embassy and oh, the cat'n'mouse with the sniper in the field - straight out of some 70s' spy movie! I could almost imagine the same situation played with, say Gene Hackman or, Michael Caine... great stuff! Minimal yet effective. The final shootout was one click too close to ridicule'- hope they would have tuned it down that much (you now what part I mean), and added in, say, 2-3 more bad guys... but that's just me bitching. Also nothing wrong with the car-wrecking action, just that after "Ronin"... However, the two REAL down-sides of the movie are: 1) The "Headquarter"-stuff was straight out of a bad B-movie.'What's the French word for "Stakeout"?'- aw, c'mon! Please, we've seen that "p***ed of captain"-act in a hundred buddy-cop actioners! One might think Chris Cooper is a bad actor if he wouldn't have just received an oscar. And if one hadn't seen "American beauty". 2) Why is Wombosi portrayed in a wide-eyed comic-book style? Seriously out of style!
But, as a whole, this flick is well worthy of purchase.