Deconstructed storyline which hasn't been dramatized properly.

Rating: 2/10 (5 October 2007)

I found this movie incredible boring. Matt Damon did his best to underplay his part and he succeeded to an extent that I felt left out. Who was he really? What was his motivations? Did he care for his girlfriend, why did he take a poetry class etc? Several movies have a fairly simple plot and storyline. And sometimes you get the feeling that the director tries to deconstruct the storyline in order to add some sophistication to the movie and to challenge your intellect; they sort of deconstruct it. In this movie you constantly jump between 1941 and 1961 in a very annoying way. Its confusing and instead of keeping the suspense up you give up on the film.
One of the most boring scenes that appears again and again is a scene wherein CIA agents are trying to determinate what is going on in a movie-clip with a guy and a girl lying in a bed that Matt Damon has received. It just goes on and on with a description of details from this clip without any point to this at all.
This is not a story about CIA but instead a story of a young guy with autistic tendencies who is a total stranger in his own life. Sort of makes me think of "the stranger" by Albert Camus.
/Sigmund