How it all began

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2007)

This is not an action movie. It's what you perhaps can call an intellectual thriller, about the man who dedicates his life to a "higher mission", but pays his price.
Matt Damon is here at his best, talking to us without changing the expression in his face or the tone in his voice. It's his moves and his eyes which make it and it's a great performance. Angelina Jolie is OK, but doesn't show us the real depths of the wife, tormented by duties. Other's duties.
Well done by director Robert De Niro, who has no intention of making it easy for himself, by filling this movie with violence. The violence is on a completely other level.