One of the best action packed movies ever!

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2011)

The Bourne Identity (2002) directed by Doug Liman, written by Troy Gilroy and W. Blake Herron and starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, Franka Potene as Marie and Chris Cooper as Conklin. The Bourne Identity was originally a novel written by Robert Ludlum that was published in 1980. There was also a made for television revision of the novel that starred Jacklyn Smith and Richard Chamberlain in 1988. However the most successful of the three would be the movie starring Matt Damon. This movie was about a young man who was recruited to work for the American government as an assassin. During one of his missions he was shot, and thought to be dead, in the middle of the ocean and found by a foreign ship of some sort and nursed back to health. Once he was aware he realized he did not know who he was and thus he was unaware of his identity except that he was Jason Bourne. Jason soon sets out on a mission to discover who he is and why he is able to do incredible things like; running extreme fast for a long distance without losing his breath or being able to speak several languages without remembering how he learned them and even his expertise in fighting and shooting. Jason begins to have flashbacks of people, place and things that he's been or been involved with and starts to piece them together. He remembers a bank account and locker number where he finds passports and money and is able to travel to some of the places in his memory and with the help of Marie they realize who and what he was.
The lighting and the cinematography captured in the movie was impeccable. Doug Liman, the director did a wonderful job with the flashbacks, and the locations that the film was set in. The flashbacks that Jason was having were made to feel like you were actually having the flashback yourself. The color tone was a black and white with a small amount of color to make it true to real life flashbacks, a memory. The actual locations were set up so that you could imagine the action taking place would take place in the location.
I believe this movie would be an all time favorite like those of James Bond. The Bourne Identity was film with the perfect characters, lighting and location to make it a box office hit. If anyone else were to play Jason Bourne I don't think this movie would have turned out so great. I recommend, if you are a lover of action packed movies that you see this movie and you will agree with me and other movie goers believe, that this is a must see film!