The Bourne Identity (2002)

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Won 21 awards & 28 nominations
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Year

2002

Runtime

1 h 59 min

Genres

Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Countries

United States, Germany, Czech Republic

Director

Doug Liman

Writers

Tony Gilroy, W. Blake Herron, Robert Ludlum

Plotline

A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.

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Starring

Matt Damon

Chris Cooper

Clive Owen

Brian Cox

Julia Stiles

Main cast

Matt Damon Jason Bourne

Franka Potente Marie Kreutz

Chris Cooper Alexander Conklin

Clive Owen The Professor

Brian Cox Ward Abbott

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Wombosi

Gabriel Mann Danny Zorn

Walton Goggins Research Tech

Josh Hamilton Research Tech

Julia Stiles Nicky Parsons

Orso Maria Guerrini Giancarlo

Tim Dutton Eamon

Denis Braccini Picot

Nicky Naude Castel

David Selburg Marshall

Demetri Goritsas Com Tech

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External critics' reviews

A first-rate thriller with grit and intrigue to spare. more

Blisteringly fast, Bourne also has a strong or striking supporting actor around every corner: Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles and Clive Owen in roles that range from meaty to amazingly small. more

One of those rare thrillers where the cops aren't fools, villains don't turn stupid at crucial moments, and career assassins seldom miss targets. more

Somehow the movie works like a clock. Its scenes and sensibility are all more than familiar, but it exudes a kind of nostalgic spy-movie charm and, at the same time, is so fresh and free of the usual thriller nonsense that it all seems to be happening for the first time. more

Entertaining, handsome and gripping, The Bourne Identity is something of an anomaly among big-budget summer blockbusters: a thriller with some brains and feeling behind it, more attuned to story and character than to spectacle. more

This is an entertainment that really entertains because any number of interesting and unexpected choices were made, starting with the selection of Doug Liman as the director. more

The Bourne Identity, like its hero, triumphs through sheer unreflective professionalism. It is, by today's standards, a modest thriller, with a self-contained storyline and with very few big special effects. more

It’s as formulaic as "The Sum of All Fears," but it feels fresher, hipper, less inflated.

The movie is a generic paranoid espionage fantasy, but its proportions are refreshingly correct. It moves quickly, adroitly, and without fuss. more

The result is an escapist fantasy that is -- Damon's and Potente's persuasive performances aside -- as weightless and inconsequential as a musical. And at the moment every bit as welcome. more

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External users' reviews

Definitely what I consider to be the best and most interesting of the three, it's just such a great story and execution. This is able to cover so much ground and have so many characters and subplots yet still feels grounded in reality and well-paced. It's unfair to call this the American James Bond, in no way does Jason Bourne want to be a killer or a spy. He really just wants to be left alone. So in that respect, this works so well as an action mystery; a genre that doesn't have many to its name. Doug Liman directs this movie flawlessly and brings class to what could have been a simple... more

Matt Damon was great as ever, the premise was entertaining, the plot carefully put together, the rest of the cast right for their roles, and of course, stuff blew up. Action sequences were amazing, especially at the farmhouse. more

Jason Bourne: How could I forget about you? You're the only person I know. A fun, fast-paced, spy flick; featuring Matt Damon kicking ass. The begging to one of the best action franchises in recent years. Here's a movie, where at the time, it breathed some life into the action/spy genre. With many believing Bond had become bland (I am not included) this movie put some cool back into the game for many audiences. Matt Damon stars as super spy Jason Bourne. He starts out unconscious, in the Mediterranean, with amnesia. He has been shot in the back twice, and has only a small device with an... more

The Bourne Identity spawned a whole wave of super-realistic, gritty action movies, and the last few years of cinema have benefitted greatly from following in its footsteps. Even the lofty 007 franchise had to make a few changes to better fit into the successful mold that the first Bourne movie created. Matt Damon will always be Jason Bourne to me, this is the role that he was born to play. He makes the entire movie work, from Jason's desperation to find out who he really is, to the brutal fight scenes. The Bourne Identity is thrilling and captivating to a degree that few other movies have... more

A well-crafted, pulse-pounding and intelligent edge of your seat action-thriller. Brilliant, compelling, gripping and exciting. Stylish, intriguing and mind blowing. Packed with awsome fight sequences and a stunning car chase. A extreamly cool adreniline rush. Matt Damon is at his best. Chris Cooper has never been better. This is one very smart, very thrilling and very exhilerating movie that you cant get enough of. more

OK spy thriller starring Matt Damon as the titled Bourne who washes a shore with an empty noggin and begins the slow search to find out who he is. Though not a devestatingly great film it's a good ride none the less. My problem comes from the people who say that Bourne is the new James Bond, which is an idea that is absurd as hell. Jason Bourne is James Bond without the personality (and I'm talking about any of the actors that played Bond). Essentially what I'm saying is that Bourne is a poor mans James Bond. more

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Series

A story centered on a new CIA operative in the universe based on Robert Ludlum's novels.

When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

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