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Review:  This
film is a remake of a TV movie that was based on a novel by Robert
Ludlum. The novel in turn was historic. It was the first novel
that I know of that was advertised on the radio.
There’s nothing here. All there are, are chases, gunshots and
explosions. If you’re a teenaged kid, then this is perfect. No
acting or plot need get in the way. This is as pure as an action
film gets.
Matt Damon is Jason Bourne. We meet him floating on his back in
the middle of the Mediterranean sea. When he wakes up, he’s got
amnesia and a pellet in his thigh with a holographic projector
that tells his secret numbered Swiss bank account.
As soon as he gets there, the world’s spies are on his case. After
all, his safety deposit box has five passports, a gun, and half a
million bucks and euros and pounds and such.The people at the
American embassy are after him and he hooks up with German nare-do-well
Marie Kreutz (Franka Potente) and soon they’re off to Paris where
things start to blow up.
This is as much a live-action cartoon as "Spider-man" or
"Scooby Doo." There’s no character development, no real plot to
speak of, just people with guns and cars trying to mow down our
hero and his honey. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Movies are for escape and entertainment and all the
pyrotechnics makes up one hellova show. So what if it doesn’t make
all that much sense? Doug Liman has come up with a really fun
piece of eye candy and that’s as much as one should hope for in a
summer shoot’em’up.
It’s worth the price of a full ticket.
Eric Lurio
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