The Bourne Identity

Solid any way you look at it. Awesome, intriguing plot with Matt Damon perfectly cast as Jason Bourne. Great fight scenes and action in general and it leaves a lot of mystery and questions for the viewer to wonder about, and when they do answer them in the later films they surprisingly aren't lame like in most movies. Ending is pretty lame and I wasn't too in love with the romance subplot but it serves its purpose.

Boyhood loves of espionage and martial arts; mixed with latter loves of romance and continental backdrops; made into a competent, engaging film. I'm British, but this makes Bond look like a bit of a twat.

Wonderful christmas movie about a workaholic who experiences memory loss and along his journey to find who he really is, discovers true love. It has quite a lot of car chases and spy action stuff but somehow never looses its simplicity and rather calm and “un-hectic” vibe. Mission Impossible meets Before Sunrise.

Ah, sweet amnesia, can one ever tire of your charms? Run-of-the-mill, rather dreary spy movie that, contrary to what is sometimes claimed, is absurd, silly and utterly unrealistic. Very little to keep the viewer interested. Pedestrian direction. That a movie's action scenes are mediocre does not in and of itself imply that it must therefore count as "intelligent". The best defence of this franchise is probably tieman64's on IMDb, added on March 22, 2013.

Way overrated. The action is mediocre, and that's the best part of the film. Half the lines in the movie are completely pointless, the bad guys are totally cliché, and Matt Damon and the girl have absolutely ZERO chemistry. Maybe the book was good, but the movie was bad bad bad.