A so empty-background movie...

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2002)

I would like to add something about this movie. The movie's plot and interest is based upon the 2 faces of the main character, the discovery of his killer training and nature, but the details are unexploited, the way he goes through himself, the way he discovers himself is inexistent. You could watch Geena Davis in "The long Kiss Goodnight" and see how it could be done. Matt Damon plays in a "stone-face" way, never we can see him tortured by his nature (yeah, except in this ridiculous flashback when he's on the boat and refuses to kill the black guy due to the children). The conspiracy, training of these killers is inexistent, the dying killer in the field speaks about pills for the headache : ???? yeah, and ?....do we have to imagine the whole training and plan from the government? We feel that all the background that actually exists in the book has been cut. Another thing is that all the places where Damon goes are under-exploited, always this short view of a city, blue-filtered colors. A lack of rythm is the great flaw of this movie, short action scenes and 30 minutes of bla-bla that follow in which we learn nothing about the plot. Oh, and I don't even speak about the cute happy ending scene....