secret agent with ID crisis because of amnesia

Rating: 7/10 (10 June 2002)

`The Bourne Identity' is about a government agent gone wrong after he was thrown off of a boat and began to suffer from amnesia. It's kind of like a James Bond movie only there is no back up and everyone's against him. The film is set mostly in Paris, where the address in a safe deposit box from Zurich is. Through out I had trouble spotting a scene that didn't have a gun involved at some point or there wasn't some poor guy have the s**t kicked out of him as Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) questioned him in order to get some idea of who he was and why he was thrown in to the ocean and shot in the back. As he gets his address, nine passports and ton of cash from the safe deposit box he meets a woman called Marie Krentz (Franka Potente) who also is on run as Damon pays her $10,000 for a ride to Paris, Where he gives her another ten grand. The film over all was very entertaining but didn't have the most original story. Despite the odd bit of boredom I liked the movie and probably would recommend it to people who enjoy watching people running around with guns and I will give it three and a half stars out of five because, after all it was entertaining.