Am I missing something here?

Rating: 2/10 (9 December 2004)

I remember reading my local newspaper, seeing the ad for TBS, and reading a review from somebody (I think it was somewhat well-respected) saying "on the 007 scale, this rates a 10!" After seeing the movie, I beg to differ.
(Spoilers ahead)
First of all, all Bond movies have the Bond girls. Jason Bourne's girl gets killed off in the first action scene of the film, and nobody takes her place. Julia Stiles played a small part, that was it.
The thing I hated most was the shaky camera work. I can understand it in massive battle scenes like Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan but in here it could have been avoided, and was excessive. I fail to see why everyone is raving about the final car chase. It gave me a pretty big headache, that was it.
Also, the characters don't make sense. When Jason Bourne told that one girl that he killed her parents, they didn't commit suicide, she didn't do anything. She just thanked him, and he left. If I had just realized that my parents loved each other after all and some guy had taken them away from me I wouldn't have thanked him. Also, when Pamela Landy tells Bourne his real name, a part of his old life, the thing he's desperately trying to find out about, he doesn't want to talk about or anything.
Anyways, skip this flick unless you enjoy getting a headache from bad camera work. I don't know why this film got such good reviews in the papers, and here in IMDb.