The Bourne Identity
- Release Date
- June 14, 2002
- Director
- Doug Liman
- Cast
- Matt Damon , Franka Potente , Chris Cooper , Clive Owen , Brian Cox , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Runtime
- 111
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Tony Gilroy , W. Blake Herron , Robert Ludlum
- Tagline
- He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.
- Website
- http://www.bourne-identity.com/
Summary
One of the most popular and durable of motion picture genres, the espionage thriller gets a fresh and altogether contemporary approach in Universal Pictures' The Bourne Identity. Director Doug Liman, acclaimed for his edgy signature films, "Swingers" and "Go", infuses Robert Ludlum's 1980 espionage yarn with an unconventional sensibility, and presents Academy Award winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's Eleven) as a new breed of spy movie hero. Filmed entirely overseas, in locations including Prague, Paris and Italy, the story opens as an amnesiac (Damon) is rescued at sea by the crew of an Italian fishing boat. Nearly dead, he carries nothing but the bullets in his back and the Swiss bank account number embedded in his hip. Although completely without identity or background, he possesses an array of extraordinary talents in fighting, linguistics and self-defense that speak of a dangerous past. In the present, he is disoriented and wary as he is propelled into an urgent search to discover who he is and why his life has taken this perilous turn. A Zurich safe deposit box yields an assortment of passports, a hefty load of cash, an automatic weapon and a name ... Jason Bourne ... with a Paris address. What it means remains a mystery, but Bourne quickly realizes that although he knows no one, there are people who recognize him - and do not wish him well. When he meets Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente), a hard-luck German-born wanderer, he makes a desperate pitch - $10,000 for a ride to Paris. Despite her reservations, Marie takes the cash and begins a journey with Bourne that changes her life forever. The trail of Jason Bourne's past snakes from Europe to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where Treadstone, a controversial clandestine operation is based. As Bourne and Marie struggle to stay below the radar in France, all of the stealthy muscle of Treadstone is focused on tracking them and neutralizing Bourne as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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