oh well

Rating: 7/10 (26 July 2002)

i happen to be a fan of ludlum's (the "bourne identity" is one of few of his books i have not read so far), yet this movie pales when compared with, say "the fugitive". matt damon is no harrison ford and his "enemies" are not half as convincing as tommy lee jones (in "the fugitive" or any other movie he's playing the "bad cop"). franka potente is (quite authentically) shocked, julia styles is ??? (unless she was supposed to play a dumb girl picking up the phone in this movie - in this case: very convincing). and the hitmen were all sort of zombie-ish. however, the car chase was fun and quite credible (when you discount the the fact that the fastest way from zurich to paris will not let you see any matterhorn-like mountains), damon/bourne falling down the between the stairs was definitely not. neither was the haircut he gave franka ;-)