UGGH! You gotta be kidding me.

Rating: 3/10 (13 July 2002)

Did anyone who helped make this movie even bother to read the book? Although a very mildly entertaining movie, nothing but the names had anything to do with the book.
What cruise ship? Jason Bourne was washed overboard from a trawler which he watched explode first. He was helped to recover via an English alcoholic doctor in France. From there he travels to the bank in which they start to follow and try to kill him. As he tries to escape out of Zurich, Maire becomes his hostage to get him where he needs to go. She's a doctor of economics, not a down and out woman--she's Canadian not American so she never should have been in the embassy to begin with. Not to mention, Jason never even steps foot in the American Embassy.
Eventually, after Jason saves her life, she decides to help him find out who he is. What about Carlos? There is never any mention of him or Cain or Medusa. Cain comes out of Medusa to try and capture Carlos. The worlds most dangerous killer.
As for Treadstone Seventy-One, it's located in Washington DC, not France. Let's not forget David Abbott who created Cain in order to get Carlos.
I could go on forever about the extreme differences with this movie, the original movie and the book, but that would take too long.
As far as I can tell, this unoriginal action movie was passable at best, but has nothing to do with the novel that Robert Ludlum wrote. Don't waste your time or money with this one. If you don't want to read the book, at least watch the original movie with Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith. It was a miniseries made in 1988 and follows the book a lot better than this supposed remake. The acting and the character's are true to form versus the cute, but way too young for Jason Bourne, Matt Damon.