Bourne Identity [HD] DVD

The Bourne Identity
The best-selling suspense novel by late author Robert Ludlum comes to the screen for a second time, following a 1988 made-for-TV movie. Matt Damon stars as Jason Bourne, a barely alive amnesiac with a pair of bullet wounds in his back, pulled from the Mediterranean by Italian fishermen. Bourne's only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He quickly finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and a few identification documents await, but after he's pursued by security goons at the American consulate, Bourne realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Marie (Franka Potente) ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. Encountering more professional killers bent on his destruction, Bourne discovers that he possesses a surprising degree of skill in combat, martial arts, and linguistics -- handy talents that clearly indicate his past includes work as a spy and assassin, but for whom? With Marie's reluctant help, Bourne edges closer to the truth, something CIA officials want concealed at all costs. The Bourne Identity co-stars Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, and Julia Stiles. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Cast Matt Damon as Jason Bourne Franka Potente as Marie Kreutz Clive Owen as The Professor Chris Cooper as Ted Conklin Brian Cox as Ward Abbott Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Nykwana Wombosi Gabriel Mann as Zorn Walt Goggins as Research Tech Josh Hamilton as Research Tech Julia Stiles as Nicolette Orso Maria Guerrini as Giancarlo Tim Dutton as Eamon

Crew Laurent Piron - Art Director Bettina von den Steinen - Art Director Joseph Middleton - Casting Kate Dowd - Casting Andrew R. Tennenbaum - Co-producer Pierre-Yves Gayraud - Costume Designer Patrick Crowley - First Assistant Director Doug Liman - Director Alexander Witt - Second Unit Director Saar Klein - Editor Robert Ludlum - Executive Producer Frank Marshall - Executive Producer John Powell - Composer (Music Score) Julianne Jordan - Musical Direction/Supervision Dan Weil - Production Designer Alexander Witt - Cinematographer Oliver Wood - Cinematographer Richard N. Gladstein - Producer Doug Liman - Producer Patrick Crowley - Producer Alexandrine Mauvezin - Set Designer Bernard Bats - Sound/Sound Designer Nicholas Powell - Stunts Coordinator Tony Gilroy - Screenwriter William Blake Herron - Screenwriter Don Burgess - Additional Cinematography Dan Mindel - Additional Cinematography Peter Donen - Visual Effects Supervisor Karen M. Baker - Supervising Sound Editor Per Hallberg - Supervising Sound Editor Industrial Light & Magic - Visual Effects Robert Ludlum - Book Author

The Bourne Identity
A tight, gripping spy thriller that's nonetheless a pleasant surprise given a notoriously difficult production that included an incomplete script, usually an omen of impending artistic doom. Not to disparage his abilities in any way -- a pair of showdowns with rival assassins are high-octane show stoppers -- but so much of what works about director Doug Liman's make-or-break studio debut is in the absolutely superb, even brilliant, casting. Matt Damon is perfect in a role that requires him to be simultaneously smart but baffled, competent but confused, lethal but little-boy-lost. By comparison, Richard Chamberlain in the late '80s TV-movie version of the same novel plays like a stone carving. Franka Potente is the first solid, realistic female foil to hit this genre in a long, long time, leaving one to wonder what exactly the James Bond producers will do with characters like Pussy Galore and Honey Ryder now that they've been trumped by the modern, feminist approach of Bourne and the spoofing jabs of the Austin Powers series. Praise must also be heaped on the blink-and-you'll-miss-it performance of Clive Owen as a rival assassin, whose chilling performance suddenly twists into eerie poignancy in a Van Gogh-inspired death scene that occurs in a wheat field bursting with crows, an unexpectedly quiet high point of the film. The always reliably efficient Chris Cooper, who never seems to use a movement, facial expression, or vocal inflection without deliberate care, seems at first an odd choice for a villain, until it becomes clear that his character's villainy is hopelessly intertwined with his very bureaucratic flunkeyism. Envisioned by Universal as a franchise-launcher with at least two follow-ups to come, The Bourne Identity is a solid kick-start to a series that will, hopefully, remain grounded in the sort of reality that makes the film a slick, enjoyable hriller. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo Additional Features: Picture in Picture The Treadstone Files Feature Commentary With Doug Liman The Ludlum Identity The Ludlum Supremacy The Ludlum Ultimatum Alternate Opening and Alternate Ending Deleted & Extended Scenes The Birth of the Bourne Identity The Bourne Mastermind: Robet Ludlum Cloak and Dagger: Covert Ops Inside a Fight Sequence. DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1: Cinemascope MPAA Rating: PG13 DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 119 min