OK action & chase movie...

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2009)

1st watched 3/27/2009 – 5 out of 10 (Dir-Paul Greengrass): OK action & chase movie where there is basically one storyline. Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon, is trying to determine his initial identity before working for the C.I.A. The CIA is trying to find him and terminate him before he figures this out. There are some subplots like a secret initiative where the CIA can kill anyone who gets in the way, a possible prior romance with a CIA agent played by Julia Stiles that is barely followed, and that's about it. The reluctant hero this time isn't given very many lines this time he just does a lot of running, jumping, hitting, killing, driving a variety of vehicles and is basically given the line " we've got to go" too many times. This is OK for an action movie, but this one has very little substance to any of the characters, which doesn't make you care much for them after the movie is over. In the first movie, Damon's character was established and we got to see him try to have a romance with another woman who was kind of on the run also – which made it interesting. In this one, he doesn't have much time for anything else but his ultimate goal – find out who he is!! A little more sympathetic agent, played by Joan Allen, late in the movie tries to help Bourne after finding out the corruption in the CIA which makes things a little more interesting, but by the time she gets involved the movie's about over and it doesn't do much to help it overall. So, if you like action movie's this one's OK , but don't expect much else.