The start of a legendary trilogy

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 2011)

Matt Damon plays a skilled assassin with amnesia after getting shot twice in the on the back on a mission. He meets a girl called Marie (Franka Potenete) and after, it is a huge cat and mouse chase through out the whole film. Okay, as some of you may be aware, Bourne Identity is the first of a collection of books by Robert Ludlum, and Bourne Identity the film and Bourne identity the book are two completely different things. It does not strictly follow the book so if you want to watch this film and look at it as an adaptation, then your going to be disappoint it but if you look at it as a film on its own. It is fantastic. It truly is.
I am glad that Matt Damon played the part because if it was someone like Tom Cruise (excluding his amazing performance in Collateral), it would be different. Not bad but different and it would not suit the intensity of the film. I was also impressed by Franka Potente as well. Clive Owen also stars in this film and does not say really say anything. But when he says his lines, it is what very emotive. Very powerful as well. Overall, the awesome fight scenes, the brilliant acting, the fantastic script, genius directing and one of the best chase scenes ever. This is what action films should be like. The start of a legendary trilogy.