The Bourne Identity (Full Screen Collector's Edition) | 
| Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  628 reviews
Sales Rank: 17940
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dvd, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: Dutch (Original Language), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD22363D
ISBN: 0783273223
UPC: 025192236327
EAN: 9780783273228
ASIN: B000071ZZI
Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 2002
Release Date: January 21, 2003
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Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 07/24/2007 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com
Freely adapted from Robert Ludlum's 1980 bestseller, The Bourne Identity starts fast and never slows down. The twisting plot revs up in Zurich, where amnesiac CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), with no memory of his name, profession, or recent activities, recruits a penniless German traveler (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) to assist in solving the puzzle of his missing identity. While his CIA superior (Chris Cooper) dispatches assassins to kill Bourne and thus cover up his failed mission, Bourne exercises his lethal training to leave a trail of bodies from Switzerland to Paris. Director Doug Liman (Go) infuses Ludlum's intricate plotting with a maverick's eye for character detail, matching breathtaking action with the humorous, thrill-seeking chemistry of Damon and Potente. Previously made as a 1988 TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain, The Bourne Identity benefits from the sharp talent of rising stars, offering intelligent, crowd-pleasing excitement from start to finish. --Jeff Shannon
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 DVD didn't work in any dvd players June 21, 2009
D. Dillon (USA)
Very dissatisfied. I was very disappointed that this dvd didn't work in any dvd players or on my lap top. I was so looking forward to watching this movie and was very upset it didn't work.
Loads of Fun June 16, 2009
S. Peek (Rocky Mountains, USA)
This is an action thriller that is great from start to finish.
A man is rescued at sea. He has no memory of who he is or anything about him. He ends up being in some very tight spots and demonstrates that he has a wide variety of impressive fighting skills.
In his quest to figure out who he is, he connects with a young German woman, Marie (Franka Potente) who assists him throughout much of the show. As it goes along, he (Matt Damon) discovers that his name, or one of them, is Jason Bourne. It turns out that he is a CIA assassin. While he has amnesia, his employers think that he has gone rogue and are attempting to kill him.
All of this makes for a story with lots of action. The events take place all across Europe. It is really a very entertaining film that is a good one for any fan of action flicks.
 Not as good as I thought it would be June 8, 2009
Christopher J. Martin (Lynchburg, VA)
I finally watched this movie on DVD and frankly, I don't see what all the hype and fuss was about when this movie was in theaters.
The movie,basically, is about Jason Bourne, apparently a government assassin, trying to find out his true identity. There were several things in the movie that I think left it disjointed and rather confusing. Throughout the movie a government program known is Treadstone is referenced. It's hinted that Bourne is part of this program, but even in the end it's never truly explained what this program is, or how Bourne is a part of it. Julia Stiles role in this movie also is never explained at all. She's just in it heading up some sort of listening post in Paris. I also did not like how this movie was filmed. The camera movements are simply annoying at times and I don't think add to the movie at all.
It's rather obvious, in my opinion, this movie was planned as a trilogy from the beginning and I don't like movies that "set me up" in order to make me come back to watch a second movie to find out things that should have been explained in the first one and in my opinion, that's just what this movie is doing.
I also did not think this movie was all that suspenseful or really was a very good thriller. If the filmmakers had taken care to fill in some details so I didn't have questions throughout the movie I might have been able to get into it more.
Perhaps I'll like the trilogy once I watch the other two movies, but as a stand alone movie The Bourne Identity just didn't impress me very much.
Hand Helds May 26, 2009
F. Ellsworth (SLC, UT USA)
The constant screen jitter from hand held cameras was enough to make me walk out of the theatre mid-movie.
THIS IS GROWN-UP STUFF. NO FOOLING AROUND. May 26, 2009
Josef Bush (Phoenix, AZ)
It may be Mat Damon himself. Surely the leading man in a film of this kind is important, but at first glance, Damon has none of the obvious traits. He isn't killer handsome. Neither has he the body of a circus ariealist. What he's got, it seems to me, is the ability to remind you of a younger brother who enlisted in the Navy and somehow wound up in the Seals. Nobody had any idea. One minute he's the hot-shot of the High School Baseball team, the next minute you're watching him get decorated dressed in whites. You're so proud of him, even if you don't know what it is he does, precisely, and all your family loves him.
So, as I say, no International Lounge Lizard with nouveau riche tastes, or a necklace of Euro-Trash beauties around his neck.
But, when the movie begins and they haul him out of the sea, nearly dead, you see it. And as he recovers from his wounds, it becomes clearer. He's one of the brightest and the best; clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack. Dad's favorite boy, memory clouded, somehow, and on a mission even he doesn't remember. And whithout making any judgment about it, you've got a great deal invested in him; in seeming him safe and his enemies identified and routed. Therefore, when the action begins, and it does immediately, one watches him negotiate the thorny mazes of predicaments of incredible complexity and menace, with ingenuity and dispatch. One of the best demonhstrations of what he can do happens when he arrives in Paris, after getting his money and passports out of a Swiss bank. ANd himself and a German girl of some sort with a car, out of the American Embassy trap. Well, an assassion crashes into his Paris apartment before either of them can catch a breath, and there's a life and death flght which ends when the failed assassin thorws himself out of the window and dies on the sidewalk below. That is the prelude to as brilliant and harrowing a demonstration of trick driving as I've ever seen, as Borne and the girl drive her Cooper Mini through the mazes and tangles of fast, congested Parisian traffic, followed by police cruisers and motorcycle mounted cops. Thrilling! And that's just the first third of the film.
Rather than describe the remainder of the story in detail, I will say, instead, that the director does not allow the project to make any fatal mistakes. He doesn't flirt with us; doesn't try to seduce us into liking the movie with mugging or stupid action jokes. He doesn't use kids that way. Or animals. Or any people. There are no faux literary pretensions anywhere. Although there are people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds in the film, there's no ethnic or racial humor. There are no shameful and insincere attempts to conjure up a facile moral to the story by juggling religioius symbols. The sexual attraction of the hero and heroine to one another isn't either lewd or tricky, but grows inevitably out of the inter-reliance that builds between them as they cling to life and avoid discovery. What attracts her is his freshness, frankness, fearlessness and his determination to protect her from enemies that are really his alone. Their care for each other becomes as artless and as inevitable as sunrise.
The sound track is good and the intercut POP music is as one would expect it, but the music is never distracting.
Seems to me I've watched this show 3 times now, and it looks better and better every time. The complex entity that IDENTITY is has been handled with such deftness and skill that no shot or sequence appears to have been derived from any shot or sequence in any other film. And the editing is flawless. Flawless!
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