missing something

Rating: 6/10 (30 May 2003)

From the very beginning this movie was missing something. Real
intrigue? Genuine caring for the protagonist? I think all the CIA stuff
clues you in too much to figuring out who he is way too early in the
movie, so it ends up being not very suspenseful. Franka Potente's
character was kinda flat; she and Bourne didn't really have that
much chemistry. Just the obligatory boy-in-trouble-meets-girl. And
as small as Julia Stiles' part was, she was still bad. "It's Bourne,
isn't it?" or whatever she said when the lights went out. Ugh. As for
the amnesia, if Bourne could remember lots of other innate stuff
like languages and fighting skills, isn't it likely he would have had
an immediate answer to the question "What kind of music do you
like?" And how, by the way, did this movie get a PG-13? There was
plenty of violence and several dead bodies.