The first ever great spy movie

Rating: 10/10 (10 April 2003)

James Bond movies: The most overrated movies ever? Every Bond film is ridiculous, boring, childish, idiotically propagandistic (they still try to squeeze 'evil' Russians into the scripts) and unintentionally funny.
Doug Liman did something that I believe no one expected to see. He reinvented the genre, by making a movie that feels 100% real (no Vin Diesel here).
He achieved realism by escaping Hollywood as he shoot the entire movie in Europe. He also chose to use an intelligent looking actor, Matt Damon for the leading role. The script never gets cheesy or boring or unreal and I believe that Matt Damon being a great screen writer helps in this direction.
Franka Potente is also very good, as well as the rest of the great cast.
The action sequences look fresh and powerful, while they stay away from cliches. The entire movie is shot in a way that gives the impression that everything was shot on location, almost like a late 70s movie. Doug Liman really did a great job.
I believe that 'The Bourne Identity' is something that will be remembered in the years to come and it is most probably the best spy movie ever.
10/10