GOOD WILL HUNTING'S IDENTITY CRISES

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2002)

THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002) **1/2 Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Clive Owen, Julia Stiles, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Atypical adaptation of Robert Ludlum's espionage thriller with Damon as the amnesiac CIA op hit-man trying to place the pieces of his jigsawed mind into place while thwarting his employers' attempt to take him down and running thru Europe with reluctant babe Potente as his only ally. Damon isn't bad as the conflicted yet cool-as-a-cucumber hero with issues and mixes it up in his rustles with bad guys but the third act suffers greatly largely to Tony Gilroy and W. Blake Herron's uneven screenplay despite the unlikely direction of indie phenom Doug Liman skillfully blending the adrenaline pumped stunts (i.e. a hair-raising car chase thru Paris) and the confused protagonist's qualms of being a lethal weapon.