Erg, I need a bath

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2003)

What a filthy, stupid little movie. Matt Damon provides a nice action role, but the rest of the film is utterly pitiful. Imagine the writer/director somehow getting it into his head that he could improve on Ludlum's novel. My God, what was he thinking? This movie is so simplistic and so dumb that I could feel my IQ getting lower and lower as I was watching it. How could you possibly take Ludlum's complex and intricate storylines and turn it into a movie about a guy running around Paris dodging dumb French cops (that's an oxymoron, isn't it?) and shooting dumb French people? Oy vey. Where is Carlos the Jackal? Where is the intricate web of deceit? Stupid, stupid, stupid. It's a good thing Ludlum is dead or he might have a stroke after seeing this...thing.