This is not Ludlum's story

Rating: 2/10 (5 September 2006)

First of all, while entertaining, the movie is not in the same class as James Bond. James Bond will always set the spy thriller standard and has much more class than Jason Bourne.
I read the three novels and wonder if the writers of the screen play had as well b/c the movies have only superficial similarities with the novels. Marie dies? She was his wife (and a forensic economist for the Canadien government (she from a Quebec in the novels, not Europe) in the three books and was as cunning (intellectually) as Jason! What happened to Carlos the Jackyl, Alexander Conklin, Mo Panov and Medusa? They threw out 99.5% of the plot from the novels! IMHO, read the Ludlum's novels and dump this steaming pile of Hollywood excrement! H-wood takes a great and proved story (all three novels were NYT best sellers), completely reduces it to the lowest comment denominator and then wonders why they're losing money at the box office!