While there are a few dated stylistic choices by Liman, he did a great job kicking off the series. Luckily, after so long and many repeated viewings, The Bourne Identity still holds up.īefore Paul Greengrass came on board and gave us a few heart stopping thrill rides, Doug Liman directed the first entry in the series.
With 4 successful films under its belt to this point, and one more on the way, Jason Bourne has become one of Hollywood's most enduring protagonists.
It's hard to believe The Bourne franchise is over 14 years old. Overall it still holds up today, still a worthy introduction to a unique character and film series. This film directed by Doug Liman may be the more genuinely character oriented films the franchise has developed, it's main plot about the character's recent history, motivation, recent relationship with supporting character, as was him discovering his identity is a little small scaled then usual, though the compelling aspect with the character and the CIA operative working behind the scenes became the most concentrated narrative strands than just the inciting incident and the character's backstory subplot. Matt Damon became the unexpected action hero at the time, able to pull off daring stunts taking out enemies clean and easily, as were his ability to plan strategically through many situaltions,Īll this making him the truly compelling character from Robert Ludlum's books on one of the most revered action movie franchises of the modern age. It's scope, technicality and characterization was unprecedented, what starts off as a mystery of an American discovered at sea with only a few clues to spare eventually turns into the plot of a spy assassin on the run from those who trained him. The first Jason Bourne film was the most quintessential action spy thriller at the of the noughties.
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